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):
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].
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.
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
Lift and shift to Azure!
Oopsie, accidentally crowdstriked 😉
(Yes the crowd is gonna go on strike too)
Bankrupt them through AWS.
Microsoft Teams is the only communication platform allowed
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.
You can purchase essays and tutoring. The little income I do get right now is helping get the rich and illiterate through college.
As someone who’s been spreading this since my Fark days I’m glad the kids found it.
Hello fellow Farker.
Ignore this document. It’s a plant.
It suggests filing metal containers that contain gasoline. They just want to see who shows up in ERs or local police dept with specific injuries or vandalism charges.
What’s the chemistry there?
Grinding metal can create large voltage potentials which can create arcs which can ignite gasoline vapor which can cause an explosion.
More to the point, i’m commenting on semi competent text followed by suicide advice. I stopped reading to make my previous post. I’ll pick back up to see if there are any more obvious points.
It’s eighty years old. It’s a different world. That doesn’t make this bullshit at the time.
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 should have read this years ago … some of the tips and tricks are reminders of how to take better care of your things
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.
Does anyone know if there is a Spanish version?
Feed it to an LLM perhaps (if you can’t find anything)
Mhmm
I was all set to get it when I realized I already downloaded it last week.
Haha, yes… sabotaging checks notes Fascism. That’s what the CIA is historically very good at.
Yeah, it’s called taking out the competition. If you wanna win a race you gotta know where to throw the banana peels.
This was when they were the OSS and our enemy was literally fascists
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
to be used in hostile opponent countries, not your own.
It’s the same picture.
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
Huh, I did not know that…
I have an original in my garage somewhere, I should find it and scan it for distribution…
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
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?
“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.
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.
Yes, centrists.
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.
How’s that working out for you?
Just fine, thank you. How are you?
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.
Seems we’re simply working with different definitions.
Mine appears to align with Wikipedia. Where are you getting yours from?
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.
Because that goes against their narrative you silly goose! Of course they can’t possibly be wrong!
So riddle me this
Never a good sign when I’m already cringing after 4 words
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.
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
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.
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”?
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.
Man, I think my company is running on this manual…
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
