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RomeoStevens comments on Orwell and fictional evidence for dictatorship stability - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RomeoStevens 24 May 2013 05:19:52PM *  5 points [-]

Try getting held without charges for years and see if you change your tune.

Comment author: Mestroyer 24 May 2013 07:34:50PM 6 points [-]

Yeah, but it's still not Orwellian because we're talking about it right now. No thought police are swooping in and stopping me from --

Comment author: DanielLC 25 May 2013 06:28:08AM 2 points [-]

I wonder if it's possible to get Candle Jack and the Thought Police to fi--

Comment author: AspiringRationalist 24 May 2013 11:54:25PM 2 points [-]

We were discussing the British situation. How did we suddenly jump to Guantanamo?

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 25 May 2013 12:17:57AM *  8 points [-]

We were discussing the British situation. How did we suddenly jump to Guantanamo?

Because there were British detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

Comment author: ikrase 26 May 2013 08:11:23AM 2 points [-]

There is still a huge difference between "corrupt Machiavellian democracy" and "1984". Or even between corrupt Machiavellian democracy and Nazi Germany/Stalinist Russia/whatever. We're not even close to China.

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