• _druid@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Seems like it’s out of some old CIA book about toppling governments. Slow a government down to make it less efficient by drowning them in red tape.

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      This was originally part of a handbook developed by British intelligence for spies in WW2 who had infiltrated the German military and government. How to drag them down through bureaucracy.