IIRC, in the later seasons he moved from jealous arse to legitimately creepy psycho.

If Newsmax is going this low in terms of authoritarian bootlicking I hate to think what OANN is pumping out.

also most of them appear to only really be interested in sportscars, leading to painfully ridiculous complaints about cars that aren't.

but it's not just the BG that were eugenicists though was it? There are also the Tielaxu, the Guild, and Mentat's seems to be a mix of training and some sort of breeding.

Not to mention the alluded to, though not expanded upon, competing "schools" that relied upon enhancing human capabilities.

Good point. Also, that labor force gets essentially zero training.

And maintenance programs are extremely inconsistent from place to place.

Bodies are mass-produced prototypes.

Alas, the design team got fired and now all we get are cosmetic refreshes rather than the sorely needed redesign.

And clearly the team working on knees was really phoning it in. 😖

In passing, despite Brian Herbert's "works", I speculatively wonder, how central was the Butlerian Jihad to embedding a neo-Feudal/eugenicist society/ regime in that fictional universe?

And for the record, this isn't only a right problem.

The US left is full of people with a thoroughly imperialistic mindset, it's just that their reasons for seeking to govern & control the internal affairs of small countries are AOK & different, to them.

Leftist empires are entirely possible.

That's dark Dan, real dark.

And gets darker the more you think about.

Not just abolish ICE though.

The agency's employees, particularly upper and middle management, but also the low-level enforcers, will need to be unemployable by the state, or state contractors, or local LEO agencies. They'll just do it again.

Oh, and US Border Patrol, root & branch.

Ultimately there is a public mindset problem.

And it infests the American public from HOA to nation.

- Want services, don't want to pay for services.
- Don't see need to spend money today to save money tomorrow.
- Why should I pay for something someone else uses.

That and the "they" problem.