Yup, and it’s so ironic that the Rebel heroes are a ragtag collection of desert-dwellers led by warrior priests of a religious sect.

Except in this take, I'd still prefer the Empire to the Rebels. Star Wars tells its story through the lens of the Rebel propaganda.

I think the GP is talking about Dune instead of Star Wars.

We all know what 'the spice' is.

The poster above literally mentioned the Death Star, so unless there's something like this in Dune I don't know about...

Don't forget the brainwashing of a teenager they send on a suicide mission against the authorities

ISIS got fairly wrecked though.

Not wrecked, they just relocated. They seem quite happy over in sub-Saharan Africa.

Any complex system eventually breaks down. If not this rebellion then the next. Or the one after that.

The system accumulates damage over time, maintenance can't fix everything, eventually it's not worth it to keep it operational. Looking at Trump and Biden I'd say that time is near.

In theory, repair and creating something anew are equivalent processes; at the detail level, they both involve the same act of tearing out old pieces and inserting fresh ones. So I sometimes wonder what is it that eventually makes killing and starting over preferable to maintenance? Maybe we should address that somehow, as redoing things from scratch seem unnecessarily wasteful.

yes lets draw direct analogies to science fiction lol

Fiction v non-fiction.