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_heimdall 2 days ago

Democracy is held together by people willing to follow the rules.

In Trump's first administration they realized the trick is to just move so fast that you flood the system and can do whatever you want before anyone sees through all the noise or has a chance to stop you. Steve Bannon was interviewed on camera saying as much.

tmountain 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Here's Bannon's quote verbatim -- "I said, all we have to do is flood the zone. Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never—will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity."

ncr100 2 days ago | parent [-]

Smells like traitor meat.

vuln 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This is also the MO of startups.

Look at AirBnB, Uber, Lyft.

All illegal businesses that had enough capital to burn through lawsuits and keep operations going until they were too big to fail and whipped the snot out of city and state legal counsels.

disqard a day ago | parent [-]

Indeed, VC culture (esp. for the fabled "unicorn" wannabes) is DOGE culture.

It might rarely be admitted openly, but it sometimes is alluded to... e.g. Eric Schmidt's Stanford talk where he said:

"I want to say that if your product becomes popular, you can hire a bunch of lawyers to sort everything out. If no one uses your product, don’t worry -- no one will care that you stole someone else’s content."