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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by tanilama on Sunday March 18, 2018 @04:47AM (#16611019)
It comes down to motivation. Obama is a career politician, but Bannon is an ideologist. The former seeks to get elected, the latter seeks to plant ideas and change the society in a fundamental way. To me, Bannon is much more dangerous than Obama, because he is subversive.

Technically, there might be little difference, but Bannon clearly excels at using this tool to a greater effect, and the result is far more impactful and outreaching, even revolutionary. Guaranteed, other groups will take notice and trying to replicate their success, to feed their version of personalized agenda to your month.

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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by bpd1069 on Sunday March 18, 2018 @08:44AM (#16611691)
The biggest difference is Bannon wants to break society to that it can be remade as he wants. Classic villain methodology, where the ends justify the means. Creating and exploiting divisions in society, damaging democratic institutions, so that the Government collapses and Democracy along with it. To be replaced with 'his' vision for this country. That is evil and treasonous.
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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by femidav on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @06:04AM (#16636725)
And Obama did broken the society. Probably it's broken so badly, that it cannot be mended anymore...
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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by chibg10 on Sunday March 18, 2018 @02:07PM (#16613289)
I agree with your discomfort on Bannon's agenda, but aren't you conceptually backwards here? If Bannon is evil not because of his agenda but because he wants to bring societal change, isn't the same true for Abraham Lincoln?
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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by bpd1069 on Monday March 19, 2018 @07:49PM (#16624548)
Change via Destruction is much different than change via Cohesion.

And now we have the Chaotic President, thanks, Bannon.

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