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Direct link to the book (without the backref):
I had that manual for a while. Time to really pay attention…
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.
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.
- “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 🥺
Isn’t this like the whole SCRUM framework
Bruh this is my leadership team at work!
Same… Lol
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.
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.
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.
- “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…
Holy shit it’s AGILE…
I work in the development office of a municipality.
I was made for this.
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?
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
Bro the CIA is so based. They’re bazinga based.
I was all set to get it when I realized I already downloaded it last week.
This will be declared a terrorist document create by a evil government as soon as trump hears about it. Its not like he can read well enough understand it.
Some speculate that he cannot read at all. I do not think this is the case, as it is very difficult to finish university without some kind of reading and writing (even with grades as horrific as his).
But I strongly believe that Trump is dyslexic. Which would explain his aversion to reading at all costs and his desire to have things done in picture form and not written form. I am not the only one who suspects this.
He certainly reads at a very low level, and I’ve seen analysis of his speeches explaining how we know this. I don’t know if he’s always been that bad at reading or if this is a new thing in the last 10 years or so.
No he never was interested in reading or writing. From my understanding his book, The Art of the Deal, was not written by him but dictated to someone who wrote down what he was saying. Some say that’s why the book sounds like something he is saying to you than writing to you.
I need to mention that Hitler also had mein kampf written this way. He didn’t sit at a desk and write it with a pen or typewriter, someone else just wrote down what Hitler was saying directly to them.
It’s not at all difficult to finish university without reading or writing, it’s just more expensive.
I started reading but i’m pretty sure this book is illegal in my country
Was that law passed by Oswald Mosley or something?
2000 so that would have been under Tony Blair. We don’t have constitutionally protected free speech like the US does
I know, I was making a joke.
Well I found this for sale in my country: https://www.bokklubben.no/andre-verdenskrig/manual-of-guerilla-tactics-anon/produkt.do?produktId=108933357
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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.
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?
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.
So many countries ended up with fascist autocrats with the help of the CIA. Way before Reagan.
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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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!
Amazing. Thanks.
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.
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.”
Man, I think my company is running on this manual…
My company has been fighting fascism this whole time. Wow!
The real
treasureAntifa are thefriends we madecorporations we worked for along the way!Uh oh. Every corporation just got labeled a terrorist organization.
… I guess that’s fine, actually. Sure. Start with Nestle?
Maybe America DOES fight Facism
This sounds like how the federal government is operating from the top down as of this year.
Yeah. They want to destroy government.
“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?
Non-white, non-males must be less efficient. Surely thats why they have been paid less and gotten less promotions.
Nice try, Mr. Cultural Marxism.
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.
Why is centrism in quotes?
Because most supposed “centrists” don’t really have a balanced centrist opinion at all. Most “centrists” seem to believe that being politically and socially uninformed is the most reasonable and intelligent take, saying “I’m not taking sides because I’m better than that” in a literal holier-than-thou sense of superiority, basically proud of their ignorance, who ends up doing more to hate on protestors and bend over backwards for the status quo. They’re about as right-wing as it gets, just quieter and absolute absence of a spine.
You’re thinking of Neutralians from Futurama, not centrists.
Centrists are simply people who don’t subscribe to the party platform of any particular political party. They still have opinions on certain issues and they still vote. If the DNC came out tomorrow in support of something I know nothing about, I wouldn’t automatically start supporting that thing, nor decry people who don’t. I’d try to find out as much as I can about it, and if I still feel ignorant, I don’t vote on it.
Source: Me, I’m a centrist.
You’re describing an independent.
Centrists explicitly try to place themselves in the middle of two sides, which given how insane and authoritarian one side often is, makes even the middle point of those views unreasonable to hold.
How’s that working out for you?
Yes, centrists.
So riddle me this, why is it hard to believe that DEI type policies could be plot by some organization or country against the U.S. when there’s literally a field manual which says that such policies should be used against “fascists”. People on Lemmy call the U.S. imperialist all the time.
The flaw in your argument is the false equivalency between minorities (people the DEI programs are there to support) and “inefficient workers”.
Are straight white dudes exempt from ever being considered inefficient? That’s silly.
DEI goes beyond hiring. If you have a sizeable office but no comfortable and private area for new mothers to pump breast milk that’s being inequitable to them. Same for maternity and paternity leave policies. These are not about giving advantage to minorities.
That’s fair, but those don’t decrease efficiency consistently enough to be a viable method for simple sabotage. There are better ways to decrease efficiency in ways people won’t notice. Everyone notices DEI because it’s so divisive.
Additionally, pointing out a semantic issue with my statement doesn’t change the fact that the people the DEI practices help are not “inefficient workers” anymore than any other group of workers.
No, I didn’t say minorities, you’re assuming that. I was pointing out the part in the text which says, “fight fascists by creating bureaucracy”. There are lots of articles already which point out that DEI is for all identities, not just POC.
The plain and simple truth is that DEI often increases, not decreases, efficiency and productivity. It does this by creating accommodations for efficient workers who would, without them, not be able to work, such as in the new mothers example. It also increases efficiency by combating existing institutional racism and allowing for good, efficient workers who would otherwise be hedged out of the system, to have a chance to participate. A good friend of mine has pointed out that their company is not, under any circumstances, going to let go of their DEI policies because it’s lead the best and most efficient departments they’ve ever had.
I didn’t say POC anywhere in my comment.
These identities are minority identities. Women, POC, LGBT+ communities are all considered minorities. There are legitimate reasons for DEI, including increasing efficiency in workplaces, which doesn’t line up here, because in this doc the increase in bureaucracy is for the purpose of decreasing efficiency.
Some studies I’d like to cite regarding my claim on Diversity practices increasing efficiency:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30765101/
Results: Most of the sixteen reviews matching inclusion criteria demonstrated positive associations between diversity, quality and financial performance. Healthcare studies showed patients generally fare better when care was provided by more diverse teams. Professional skills-focused studies generally find improvements to innovation, team communications and improved risk assessment. Financial performance also improved with increased diversity. A diversity-friendly environment was often identified as a key to avoiding frictions that come with change.
https://dinastipub.org/DIJDBM/article/download/2986/1924/12080 (This one is a PDF) CONCLUSION This study shows that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives have a significant positive impact on employee performance.
I also found this article from Harvard that explored practices that don’t increase efficiency, however, when they don’t work, the reason is usually unconscious bias and racism:
https://hbr.org/2024/06/research-the-most-common-dei-practices-actually-undermine-diversity “These methods often exacerbate existing biases and fail to address systemic barriers, perpetuating organizational inequities. For example, diversity and harassment training programs frequently focus on blame, legal consequences, and unconscious bias. Employees are often told they are biased, and managers are informed that they will be held accountable if employees are accused of discrimination. This is counterproductive because employees tend to react with resistance and anger to these messages, inadvertently increasing discriminatory behavior.”
The reason I am including this is that even if the end goal was to decrease efficiency, it would have to be the goal of management, not the regulatory bodies, because management are the ones choosing these methods, and if it were management’s goal to decrease efficiency, they would be able to do this without DEI requirements.
My overarching point here is, while I understand your skepticism on DEI practices, there are much simpler and cheaper ways to perform the methods in the original post, making DEI an extremely unlikely culprit.
So riddle me this
Never a good sign when I’m already cringing after 4 words
There is more merit to people in a meritocracy than grades alone.
Do you not believe in getting opportunity? Can you recall a few times people took a chance on you? What if nobody ever did?
Please stop. I literally made this thread a while back
https://lemmy.world/post/15392191
I believe in people getting opportunities. What I don’t like are thought police, or thought correction officers.
Left authoritarianism is still authoritarianism.
I also don’t take it for granted that someone talking about “empathy” or “compassion” necessarily doesn’t have ulterior motives.
I believe in people getting opportunities. What I don’t like are thought police, or thought correction officers.
Please do explain how to give such people opportunities without any “thought police” being involved…
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/11/1243713272/resume-bias-study-white-names-black-names
DEI only irks people who are racists. For everyone else, it’s just a hiring process.
DEI is for all identities, not just POC. Creating more process is part of the the CIA field manual for fighting fascists, hence the question, are more bureaucratic jobs being created in some misguided attempt to “fight US imperialism”?
No, I won’t. Considering what you wrote in your linked post, why are you asking such strange questions?
Thought police? Yet you’re ok with being told not to touch/compliment women’s butts at work??
I won’t stop because you’re hilariously inept 🤣
I am asking these questions because we already have EO laws and ADA policies. We also have anti-harassment policies. What does DEI add that’s new other than create more bureaucratic jobs?
From my perspective, DEI just creates divisions between groups by splitting people into distinct identities.
Because that goes against their narrative you silly goose! Of course they can’t possibly be wrong!
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.
It’s relatively easy to envision.
Assume each agency (not just the 3-letter ones, any) had X% of fascists and fascist-friendly people. The other 100%-X% will be fired. So just the X% remain.
On the one hand, the agency is now severly crippled as it lacks key personell, and probably the firings aren’t evenly spread through departments and key positions, meaning some aspects don’t work at all any more (separating air traffic is one, for a simple example), while others still mostly work. On the other hand, all remaining aspects are now 100% fascist in their nature, and will always take the fascist option if one presents itself as anyone who would not do so has been removed.
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 [email protected].
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
Crimp (damage by bending) the Ethernet cables.
I’m siding with the fascists on this one.
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.
Not for a moment did I believe the comment was made in jest
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!
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
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…
That book is dangerous, flip through TM-31-210 instead
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.
Fam, America IS the “hostile opponent country” now. Thats why this is going viral
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.”
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?
Perhaps not always consciously, but yeah, I’m sure they’re pressured for speed and paid as little as legally possible.
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.
