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):
Reminds me a bit of Edward Abbey’s Fieldguide to Monkeywrenching.
Albeit aimed at a different target and different reader.
Just an interesting observation Im making using the title of a not so well known text but potentially interesting read for many (academically of course).
For anyone interested, it is freely available online if you want to read it. I would suggest using a VPN or other security program to protect yourself. I suggest this purely because its best practice to use one, lest certain groups take an interest in your reading choices. By this I of course mean cybercriminals.
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.
Real chads flush tiny screw bits down their landlords toilet
It’s eighty years old. It’s a different world. That doesn’t make this bullshit at the time.
The physics of combustion and gas phases has not changed appreciably on planet earth until atmosphere arrived. Gasoline vapor will ignite if you grind metal on metal nearby.
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.
What the royal shitballs are you on about?! Grinding creates sparks from friction, have you never used a damn anglegrinder?
Grinding metal makes a voltage potential?
… How?
That makes no sense. With enough energy grinding metal can spark purely from friction, but it’s not generating appreciable static electricity. Not even close.
The same way that rubbing fur on amber creates static. Elastic shear.
I haven’t read that bit. I misread filing as filling.
Haha, no worries. It’s a manual for ending your life.
Mhmm
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 think that’s kind of the point - because this behavior is fairly common, malicious use of it is extremely hard to root out, and can cause a wonderful amount of friction in an organization.
I had that manual for a while. Time to really pay attention…
Bro the CIA is so based. They’re bazinga based.
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.
I believe you have my stapler…
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.
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.
“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.
That’s why you report other fascists as being spies, or imaginary people like it says.
I thought the idea was to invent reports about fictional people not to create fake reports about real people.
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 can’t fathome sitting through an exam that requires writing and reading comprehension to do anything with money. I understand getting others to do your homework for money (hell, I had a hustle in university where I did that), but sitting through an exam, which can make or break your entire course, is something else entirely.
You can purchase essays and tutoring. The little income I do get right now is helping get the rich and illiterate through college.
I did have a hustle in college where I did homework for some guys (they were not rich. They were just lazy). But my main concern isn’t about getting essays or some other projects done. It is about sitting through exams. How would he have finished an exam while being functionally illiterate? The only way it could be done is that he bribed someone to bring him a copy of the exam beforehand so he can have someone tell him what to do for what part.
But if that was the case, his grades wouldn’t be as utter shit as they were. I know if I had an advance copy of an exam, no matter how tough it was, I would have at least gotten a B or B+.
I know if I had an advance copy of an exam, no matter how tough it was, I would have at least gotten a B or B+.
This is one of those benefits of joining a fraternity/sorority. Many do keep collections of old exams, homework assignments, etc. Imagine how that factors with the type of fraternities the uber wealthy join too.
Another strategy is getting accommodations. With money, you can get the kind of diagnoses and paper work to get around a lot. This is not at all to attack the legitimacy of college accommodations - I’ve worked with many who deserved them, and in some ways I was able to access some myself. I’ve also worked with people who did pay for a diagnosis and list of accommodations. This is more of a rich people taking advantage of a system that is mostly inaccessible to poorer people.
Another aspect is “track system.” Eg, my ex husband came from serious money, went to a high school where there was a track for those who wanted to learn, and for those whose parents just wanted them in a nice school with other rich kids. (He would freely admit to switching to the “rich kid” track because he was too lazy to write essays. That continued in college - he used the strategy of having me do it.)
I think this continues in colleges, especially the more expensive privates/Ivys/and even local colleges, in certain major programs. People joke about Business majors, but yeah… There’s an element of institutional knowledge here that can also go with the frats/sororities - who lets you take home the tests, who uses multiple choice, etc…
Always very frustrating to me - I got kicked out of college a couple times trying to get through STEM/engineering while working multiple jobs and pimping myself out on Craigslist. Knowledge is a candle, and lighting others does not extinguish one’s own flame, but damn if don’t have some resentments some times.
- “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 🥺
So, civ v was right, the only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy, is its inefficiency.
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.
Most points are more focused on decreasing workplace efficiency by ways other than lowering morale.
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.
Bruh this is my leadership team at work!
Same… Lol
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?
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.
The workers own the hospital. Fuck capital. Just walk in and take it.
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 eaten out of dumpsters before. Its usually wrapped in food grade containers. Completely sanitary.
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.
- “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 really need to keep that spiderman meme in my back pocket, but this was also my first thought
Holy shit it’s AGILE…
I can’t upvote this enough…
“hey, boss man created a JIRA ticket for the revolution, they wanna know how many story points we think that will be.” 😂
I work in the development office of a municipality.
I was made for this.
I was all set to get it when I realized I already downloaded it last week.
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
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!
Does anyone know if there is a Spanish version?
Feed it to an LLM perhaps (if you can’t find anything)
