AspiringRationalist comments on Orwell and fictional evidence for dictatorship stability - Less Wrong Discussion
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We were discussing the British situation. How did we suddenly jump to Guantanamo?
Because there were British detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
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.