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

16 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 24 May 2013 12:19PM

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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.