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_heimdalllast Thursday at 12:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

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.


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tmountainlast Thursday at 2:49 PM

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."

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vulnlast Thursday at 4:46 PM

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.

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