Trump ended up winning the 2024 election and this comic was pretty much prophetic of what happened afterwards, cheers to the morons who trashed this comic when it was released
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ELECTION DAY ON ARRAKIS
[atreides flag]
[harkonnen flag]
I just don't know... can't bring myself to pick between the only two possible candidates in this election.
Option 1, Atreides, are colonizers and as a true leftist I couldn't vote for them since I support Fremen independence movements.
Option 2, Harkonnen, are also colonizers and fascists on top of that, but I'd rather be caught dead than vote ofr a colonizer so yeah imma skip this one and stay home, screw voting.
ELECTION RESULTS
House Atreides
18 million votes
Loses the election
House Harkonnen
Precisely 18 million and 1 votes
Wins the election
Hey now don't blame me for those results, I know it was decided by only 1 vote but this is all the same to me I was fine with this possible outcome when I decided to stay home - this is going to be the exact same shit for both leftists and Fremen anyway so who cares which brand of colonizer runs the planet of Arrakis, right?
SPECIAL BROADCAST LIVE FROM TOTALLY NOT OMINOUS HARKONNEN PALACE
[creepy building with horns]
Announcement to all the population, new laws:
1) Demonstrating is now banned
2) We will randomly "disappear" leftists and Fremen
Thanks for your understanding, have a Harko-day!
[hill with the label FREMEN MASS GRAVE on it]
What's this new structure in the distance? Dunno, too far to read.
Anyway this election's results clearly changes nothing and I'm sure the amount of colonizing and stealing indigenous lands won't increase... I'll be praxising either way, I'm sure those new repressive laws will make it easy to organize and change the state of things on Arrakis! I am very smart
ALTERNATE ENDING BY ANTON
I, a true leftist, can't vote for monarchist Atreides because monarchy sucks and Harkonnen are actually good guys because they're space libertarians
-- Space libertarians win --
OK Harkonnen suck but imagine how bad our living would be under... no no wait scratch that last line... actually fuck this makes monarchy look favorable
-- Wait who wins now? --
You know what maybe Dune isn't a good analogy for this whole thing
This is just too spicy
THE REAL ENDING
There's no elections on Arrakis
People don't get to vote
It's dystopian scifi for a reason
[person in jail]
I'm in jail awaiting my execution for harboring anti-establishment thoughts
Being able to vote would be nice but this is Arrakis
Don't take your vote for granted, earthlings
![ELECTION DAY ON ARRAKIS
[atreides flag]
[harkonnen flag]
I just don't know... can't bring myself to pick between the only two possible candidates in this election.
Option 1, Atreides, are colonizers and as a true leftist I couldn't vote for them since I support Fremen independence movements.
Option 2, Harkonnen, are also colonizers and fascists on top of that, but I'd rather be caught dead than vote ofr a colonizer so yeah imma skip this one and stay home, screw voting.](./../img/comics/dune_elections_analogy_1.png "Comic image - transcription in alt text")
![SPECIAL BROADCAST LIVE FROM TOTALLY NOT OMINOUS HARKONNEN PALACE
[creepy building with horns]
Announcement to all the population, new laws:
1) Demonstrating is now banned
2) We will randomly "disappear" leftists and Fremen
Thanks for your understanding, have a Harko-day!](./../img/comics/dune_elections_analogy_3.png "Comic image - transcription in alt text")
![[hill with the label FREMEN MASS GRAVE on it]
What's this new structure in the distance? Dunno, too far to read.
Anyway this election's results clearly changes nothing and I'm sure the amount of colonizing and stealing indigenous lands won't increase... I'll be praxising either way, I'm sure those new repressive laws will make it easy to organize and change the state of things on Arrakis! I am very smart](./../img/comics/dune_elections_analogy_4.png "Comic image - transcription in alt text")
![THE REAL ENDING
There's no elections on Arrakis
People don't get to vote
It's dystopian scifi for a reason
[person in jail]
I'm in jail awaiting my execution for harboring anti-establishment thoughts
Being able to vote would be nice but this is Arrakis
Don't take your vote for granted, earthlings](./../img/comics/dune_elections_analogy_6.png "Comic image - transcription in alt text")