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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.
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.
Fam, America IS the “hostile opponent country” now. Thats why this is going viral
hey y’all, first they wanted you to throw away your vote, now they want you to sabotage your own country. Funny how it’s not all about “genocide” anymore.
What do you mean friend? You aren’t distributing anything at all. I didn’t see anything. Everything is Minecraft.
This, plus a bit of the 1939-1945 strategy for dealing with fascists
various anarchist cookbooks also recommended
That book is dangerous, flip through TM-31-210 instead
Anarchist cookbook is a poisoned well, copies in circulation are modified to be self-hazardous
I have an original in my garage somewhere, I should find it and scan it for distribution…
Huh, I did not know that…
Milton was the best: playing music that distracts your coworkers and reduces productivity, engaging management and taking up their time about quibbles, muttering incoherently leading to lost time due to miscommunication, stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and setting the fucking building on fire.
Be like Milton.
Just a coincidence. President Musk would never allow fascism to take hold in the U.S.
He will raise his hand to nearly the hight of the stop sign to clearly communicate his intent.
I’m pretty sure that the people at the companies I’ve worked at for the last 15 years have been following this playbook the whole time.
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
Mhmm
As someone who’s been spreading this since my Fark days I’m glad the kids found it.
Hello fellow Farker.
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.
Resistance from within? You think Ron Swanson is toppling dictatorships?
What is Ron Swansons ideology? I’ve got a taste from watching season 1 and 2 but not a full picture.
Ron Swanson is supposed to be the archetype libertarian.
Yeah, that’s fair.
You magnificient bastard!
Is the idea here just to be kind of a jerk?
If so, my time has come…
Be the boulder you were always meant to be.
Amazing. Thanks.
Proof that CIA knows what the cure for fascism is, and yet chooses not to ever since Reagan.
Why stop fascists when you can enable them worldwide and locally that helps secure funding and work for you?
Why would you not want to have more threats to encourage congress to fund your habits and slowly erode the rights of the Americans you claim to defend?
The CIA started hating fascists due to the war effort but learned they had the same idea just different strategies.
The CIA wasn’t around for WW2, that was the OSS and that agency was dissolved after the war.
This is honestly the first time I’m wondering why, exactly, they got rid of it.
While it wasn’t the CIA, the OSS was basically the WW2’s CIA, and then the OSS set up what became the CIA. The OSS also helped Operation Paperclip go into effect, escorting Nazis into the US Government and its allies.
The CIA was created to protect capital interests while pretending it’s for the American people… They are like the heart of global fascism. Them and the federal reserve banking system.
Capital Interest Administration lmfaooo
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.
The truth is that the south has perfected the art of double speak and gets away with saying horrid dog whistles for 40+ years and then blushes and puts their finger on their chin and goes “whoooo, meeee?” when it’s called out for what it is in plain English. “I wouldn’t feel responsible if anything happened to Fauchi” while simultaneously calling him evil the devil wicked china virus and then removing a security detail. But because Trump didn’t explicitly say “I hope harm comes to Fauchi and you should get him” it doesn’t count. It’s bullshit and everyone knows it.
One political party has played by the rules while the other rewrites their language and erodes their purpose and claims that party 1 doesn’t play by the rules enough. Moving goalposts.
Democrats will always fight over the rules while Republicans are busy changing the game and watching everyone catch up too late.
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So many countries ended up with fascist autocrats with the help of the CIA. Way before Reagan.
Can this be applied to ICE? Where are they staying in your city? Where are they keeping their trucks and gear? Where does it come from? Where is their dispatch? When ICE arrests someone, what’s the logistics chain to get the person away from your city?
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.”
I had that manual for a while. Time to really pay attention…
Does anyone know if there is a Spanish version?
Feed it to an LLM perhaps (if you can’t find anything)
Report imaginary spies
Sounds like a good way to get your buddy Bob taken out and shot.
When fascists starts suspecting everyone as spies, good people die.
Just report Elon Musk 50 times.
I thought the idea was to invent reports about fictional people not to create fake reports about real people.
That’s why you report other fascists as being spies, or imaginary people like it says.
“Report imaginary spies” = bad.
“Let other people’s children be homeless and starve for your cause” = good.
You have some fucked up priorities.
The priority is the end goal of undermining the regime
At the cost of children? Really? You really think that? Because that really doesn’t make you any better than them.
I was all set to get it when I realized I already downloaded it last week.
- “Insist on doing everything through ‘channels.’ Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.”
- “Make ‘speeches.’ Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate ‘patriotic’ comments.”
- “Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.” “Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.”
- “‘Misunderstand’ orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.”
- “In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.”
- “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.”
- “Multiply paperwork in plausible ways.”
- “Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.”
- “Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number of movements necessary on your job”
- “Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.”
- “Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.”
But … but we’re already doing every single one of them 🥺
Please tell me that’s not actually what they tell you to do.
Where’s the bombs and general strikes?
Almost half of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. A strike means they can’t feed or house their kids. Corporations have Americans by the balls and they know it.
Nope. Soup kitchens are cheap and easy.
US Americans are just too stupid to turn to their neighbor and work together
Soup kitchen covering people’s health insurance and shit now? You know damn well how much people’s jobs mean to them and their livelihoods.
I agree with you; but it’s very easy to say, challenge level impossible to do.
General strikes include doctors too. They could provide free healthcare, yes.
Which doctor can provide free chemo if I have cancer? Which doctor can provide a free MRI if I have a stroke? Do they keep those things in their home?
You don’t mind children dying, and apparently you don’t mind very sick people dying either.
So how many people do you feel is an acceptable number to die for your cause?
The workers own the hospital. Fuck capital. Just walk in and take it.
So for how much longer would you consider it acceptable for the current system to cause more suffering and death before drastic actions for change are acceptable?
It seems you care more about those who would be hypothetically be harmed than those who are being harmed right now.
I don’t think that those who advocate for mutual aid networks and a general strike are either ignorant or uncaring of the harm that it could cause. I think they believe that the harm caused would be less than the harm already being inflicted by the current system. That said, I think it’s a big ask for people to put themselves and their families at great risk, even if it’s for a good purpose.
Nope. Soup kitchens are cheap and easy.
Yeah, so is eating out of a dumpster. Jesus Christ. Have you ever even talked to a homeless person?
They’re talking about establishing mutual aid networks, not relying on existing ones.
Soup kitchens are not mutual aid networks and now they’re saying eat out of dumpsters.
My guy, food not bombs explicitly is a mutal aid network and they’re specifically discrediting your attempt to discredit them because they have eaten out of dumpsters. But sure, it’s everybody else that’s wildly out of touch in this conversation.
I spent years eating dumpstered food when I lived in the US. You’re proving my point.
Have you ever even volunteered with Food Not Bombs?
Did you feed your kids out of dumpsters? And if so, were any of them autistic kids who would only be willing to eat things they approve of and starve otherwise? I hope not.
But I’m guessing your suggestion is either force-feed them or let them starve.
Also, do you know one of the reasons they take your kids away from you and put them in abusive foster care? Because you’re homeless.
Basically your whole idea is advocating child abuse.
Amazing how many people here think you should put the welfare of others over your own children.
Its clear you’ve never dumpster dived before. Its usually wrapped in food grade containers. Completely sanitary. And good stuff, like super fancy expensive pastries.
And food not bombs works with restaurants and groceries to get the food before they even put it in a dumpster, just before its thrown out.
Seriously, please find your local chapter of Food Not Bombs and volunteer. You would learn a lot. Feeding people is not an issue in the US.
The first half
- “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.”
- “Multiply paperwork in plausible ways.”
Holy shit, my workplace must be trying to sabotage fascism…
I work in the development office of a municipality.
I was made for this.
Holy shit it’s AGILE…
I can’t upvote this enough…
I really need to keep that spiderman meme in my back pocket, but this was also my first thought
Isn’t this like the whole SCRUM framework
I get how all parts of this are effective to sabotage an economy and hurt the ambitions of those at the top. But, as a regular person working within the system, I choose not to discriminate against or complain about other individual workers just trying to get through their day.
That seems counter productive. The best way to resist the oligarchs can’t be to fuck with the other poor people we’re trying to help.
Those not working to dismantle fascism are fascists.
Hey now I didn’t suggest not working against the system and the fascists. I pointed out that targeting the morale and well-being of individuals close to you might not be the best use of one’s energy, assuming underlying motivation is to make the world better for yourself and others.
And you can sabotage the work without being hostile towards an individual. That individual is somebody you should be getting on your side.
Short term pain for long term freedom is needed. If people had your point of view during the American civil war, you’d be the Confederate states of the US.
Every day people are the ones enabling and holding up fascism, not the uniforms, not the leadership, just people like you and your loved ones. Without you fascists have no power. Pressuring those around you, sabotaging their work if it’s helpful to the fascists, socially isolating those that refuse to help are the effective steps to take. If you don’t take them, you’re as bad as any fash with a gun or suit.
Youd be much better off trying to unionize your coworkers, that would be far more damaging to the fascist ubercapitalists, and much more beneficial for the workers morale.
Most points are more focused on decreasing workplace efficiency by ways other than lowering morale.
So, civ v was right, the only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy, is its inefficiency.
Bruh this is my leadership team at work!
Same… Lol
