EHeller comments on Any existential risk angles to the US presidential election? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 21 September 2012 05:05:04AM *  1 point [-]

Which 6?

2 through 7, although now that I read it again 10 is at least partially true, i.e., the Tea Party is in fact a genuine grass roots movement.

I know very little about any of these issues, but my priors on how politics work in general (mostly successful-politicians-are-never-too-radical and they-always-maintain-status-quo)

And yet the political status quo today is different from what it was 50 years ago and very different from what it was 100 years ago.

Comment author: EHeller 21 September 2012 06:01:30AM -2 points [-]

I guess I don't see how to properly interpret 3. Is it that Obama is a muslim AND a socialist AND a facist (which is how I took it). The first is very unlikely to be true given Obama's record of attending Jeremiah Wright's service.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 21 September 2012 06:27:47AM 0 points [-]

I was interpreting the slashes as ORs.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 September 2012 07:00:00AM -2 points [-]

Unless Wright is also a muslim, I suppose.

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