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Jack Schmidt
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Suppose G=SL(2,C) and let H be the stabilizer of a line (so a Borel subgroup). The matrix $$\begin{pmatrix}a&b\\\\c&d\end{pmatrix}$$ in G acts on projective space by $$ z \mapsto \frac{az+b}{cz+d}$$ The stabilizer of ∞ is the matrices with c=0, a Borel subgroup. The stabilizer of both ∞ and 0 is the matrices with b=c=0, a maximal torus. In particular, a two point stabilizer is abelian (the intersection of two Borel subgroups), and a Borel subgroup is non-abelian. Hence they are not isomorphic.

This is just a connected version of Giuseppe's answer.

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