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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

www.404media.co Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet).

Direct link to the book (without the backref):

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

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I don’t spot the difference between this and how most modern day corporations are operated:
“To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
“Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.”
- My company has been fighting fascism this whole time. Wow!
  
  The real ~~treasure~~ Antifa are the ~~friends we made~~ corporations we worked for along the way!
- This sounds like how the federal government is operating from the top down as of this year.
  
  Yeah. They want to destroy government.
- Maybe America DOES fight Facism
- “To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
  So is this why DEI exists?
  
  DEI exists because racists often have hiring power. It doesn't force the hiring of the unqualified, it supports the qualified from not being discriminated against.
  Nice "centrism" btw.

I was expecting something subtle, some sort of resistance from within type stuff.
Warehouses, barracks, offices, hotels, and factory buildings are outstanding targets for simple sabotage. They are extremely susceptible to damage, especially by fire.
Not so much.
- Proof that CIA knows what the cure for fascism is, and yet chooses not to ever since Reagan.
  
  The cure was disabling fascism long enough to let it get conquered by not-fascism.
  But that doesn't work in the USA because we will get conquered by More-Fascism.
- https://specificsuggestions.com/
  
  Is the idea here just to be kind of a jerk?
  If so, my time has come...
- Resistance from within? You think Ron Swanson is toppling dictatorships?

Remember when reading this that it was written for a time long past. There are cameras and other electronic tracking everywhere now. Even if you can avoid detection, much of the methodology described here just doesn't apply to modern machines, telecommunications, and other systems.
But read it all anyway. (It's not that long.) The mindset you will need to employ is plainly communicated and remains valid today. Be observant, be creative, be careful, and !resist@fedia.io.
- The modern approach for grinding everything to a halt is to push for migration to M365 in your workplace.
  
  You jest, but you're not wrong.
  Pushing to "improve processes and efficiency" for as many people as possible, where that requires changes to what people do - and especially changes to the applications they use - means a whole lot of retraining and mistakes. Office workers are hardly different than factory line workers. They do the same thing over and over every day, and if anything changes, they're flummoxed.
  This also serves to reveal more clearly which workers are more and less adaptable, so that you can focus any of your efforts. Either get more in the way of the more productive people, or take advantage of less productive people to effect a larger error.
  Edit: And if your "improved processes" are complicated enough, this gives other people who want to resist more opportunities to employ malicious compliance.
  
  Bankrupt them through AWS.
  
  Microsoft Teams is the only communication platform allowed
  
  Oopsie, accidentally crowdstriked 😉
  (Yes the crowd is gonna go on strike too)
  
  Lift and shift to Azure!
- For a more modern take, there are other repositories in a similar vein: https://specificsuggestions.com/share/EN/9836.html
  Some are very simple and excusable for the average office worker
  Use manual page numbers, so they have to be readjusted when page order changes
  Crimp (damage by bending) the Ethernet cables
  Send email content as images rather than as text
- It only worked back then because after Germans followed the manual to weaken the Nazis, other countries came in and destroyed them.
  If the equivalent happens in the USA we're all fucked.

Hell yeah! This is great! I'm glad I'm not the only one sharing it around to friends and neighbors. True resistance is not the flashy stuff; it's a whole of society approach to stop fascists in their tracks. True resistance is the sum total of small acts to inconvenience and impede a fascist.
- This, plus a bit of the 1939-1945 strategy for dealing with fascists
  
  various anarchist cookbooks also recommended
- What do you mean friend? You aren't distributing anything at all. I didn't see anything. Everything is Minecraft.
- The thing is that these techniques were intended to be used in hostile opponent countries, not your own.
  “Shut down America” isn’t a goal any American should have - instead, work to make a positive difference.
  
  to be used in hostile opponent countries, not your own.
  It’s the same picture.

TIL half the people at my workplace have been reading this book for the last 2 decades.
- Explains why the item substitutions on my Walmart orders are so fucking nutty (like I wanted blueberries, but they didn't have a specific brand I clicked on, so they give me raspberries but of the same brand, instead of another brand of blueberries).
  "I hate the Waltons, which is why I am working to bring Walmart down from the inside."
  
  Perhaps not always consciously, but yeah, I'm sure they're pressured for speed and paid as little as legally possible.
  
  Did a Walmart pickup order around Thanksgiving because I didn't want to fight the crowds, they substituted Lemon Jell-O for vanilla pudding, because the boxes are kinda the same color?
  Anyway, that was the last time I did a pickup order, so I guess they won?

I wonder what the purge at our intelligence agencies will be like. They were never good agencies, they did a lot of shitty stuff, but they did it because "America". Now that the Chief Cheeto is in charge, who has insulted the USIC on many occasions, and cozies up to dictators and Nazis, there have to be a not insignificant number of USIC people that want nothing to with Combover in Chief, so they'll get the boot to be replaced with some jackbooted NKVD Commissariat trump sycophants.

Haha, yes... sabotaging checks notes Fascism. That's what the CIA is historically very good at.
- This was when they were the OSS and our enemy was literally fascists
- Yeah, it's called taking out the competition. If you wanna win a race you gotta know where to throw the banana peels.
  
  The USA
- Lol that was my first immediate thought too.
- The book on sabotaging socialism and democratic rule is longer and more heavily cited than the OED
  
  I wouldn't go that far. It's pretty simple we are Our Own Worst enemies. They just have to get us in fighting amongst ourselves and that's pretty much it.
- They're not pro-fascism any more than they're anti-fascism. They're extremely pro-doing-what-we-fucking-tell-you, and anti-not-furthering-US-interests.
  Fascists are typically good at doing what someone stronger than them orders, so they're easy to work with. Anyone who's willing to ignore what needs to be done in favor of someone else's agenda and their own personal ends is viable though.

As someone who’s been spreading this since my Fark days I’m glad the kids found it.
- Hello fellow Farker.

It’s too outdated to be really useful. This just makes life hell for people, not stopping fascism. What we need is the field manual on how to make fascists fear for their lives enough that they crush themselves.
A lot of this would be good for fucking up capitalism, but we are way past that being an option.
- Unfortunately, "making life hell for people" is part of how you stop any government from working. Reduce efficiency, increase disorder and confusion, and make people angry enough to actually want to tear down the system.
  Governments where everyone is chipper and basically have their needs met don't collapse, and people don't fight to collapse them.
  It's like the people who say that protests shouldn't inconvenience anyone. The inconvenience is the point.
  Happy people don't kneel cops in the Dunkin donuts parking lot.
  
  People are too dumb to associate protesters in the street to a problem that can be fixed by the government. The rulers want you to think that protesting works, because it makes the fight between the people. They want you inconveniencing on your level, so that they can make us fight each other.
  You will never convince people to tear down the system by screaming in a street.
  
  If people are dumb enough to think inflation was 100% Bidens fault and electing a 2016 President will bring back 2016 prices then they'll blame empty napkin dispensers and clogged toilets on Trump.

I feel like shit now that I know all these annoying ass people were actually fighting fascism.
Sorry, Greg, you were right. You are an American hero and we should all be thankful you make everything as difficult as possible.

I should have read this years ago ... some of the tips and tricks are reminders of how to take better care of your things

one of the first things i did on 11/6/24 was download this, along with other resistance/rebellion/fuckdapolice type shit
- Recommendations?

Does anyone know if there is a Spanish version?
- Feed it to an LLM perhaps (if you can't find anything)

People to Democrats: "What should we be doing to resist Trump?"
Democrats: "Making campaign contributions to us? Idk, here is a 100 year old book."

Declassified in 2008... Anyone have any evidence when stop lights started going red at each intersection where traffic is present? Wasn't it about 2008? We need to unite as one country and take back our streets! We need to demand stop lights be timed so you hit greens when going in a straight line! An we need it now!

People seriously need to chill the fuck out with the Nazi comparisons.
Trump won popular vote, that’s literally a democracy.
I wish the Republicans had more class in dealing with political opponents, or in getting their point across about some issues, but they don’t. Their lack of finesse just makes people overreact. These overreactions are reminding me of the J6ers, though.
- These overreactions are reminding me of the J6ers, though.
  Ah, yes. Truly a classic. "The people angry about the blanket pardoning of all the violent insurrectionists are just as bad as the violent insurrectionists!"
  Lol.
  
  Good point, I should clarify that’s not what I was saying. I was saying that it reminds me of the same online reactions prior to it happening.

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