Have we considered yet whether #signalgate was actually an instance of #SimpleSabotage ?
Have we considered yet whether #signalgate was actually an instance of #SimpleSabotage ?
@stefan (John Heartfield's cat)
I've got it and glad to see it hosted so many other places.
https://www.404media.co/heres-a-pdf-version-of-the-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism/
Monkeywrenching is nonviolent
Monkeywrenching is nonviolent resistance to the destruction of natural diversity and wilderness. It is never directed against human beings or other forms of life. It is aimed at inanimate machines and tools that are destroying life. Care is always taken to minimize any possible threat to people, including the monkeywrenchers themselves.
Im on a statwide Minnesota public advisory board and I can confirm that that one member of a committee can effectively kneecap any meaningful work by sidelining with red herrings, going over ground we have already covered, pointless personal experience descriptions of "ways we can improve". #SimpleSabotage
The funniest thing about that nauseating AI video on the monitors at HUD this morning was Elon with two left feet
#SimpleSabotage
It's amazing the downloadable military field manuals you can find out there. So handy.
#resist #DoNotComplyInAdvance #SimpleSabotage
https://ia601309.us.archive.org/14/items/Simplesabotage/Simplesabotage.pdf
@PatrickoftheG How do we fight them without riots?
#SimpleSabotage
This may come in handy some day. Simple Sabotage Field Manual: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26184/pg26184-images.html #simplesabotage #simplesabotagefieldmanual #resist #resistance #fightfascism #fightback
I just posted an audio book version of the "Simple Sabotage Field Manual", an old WW2 era guide on helping regular citizens in Europe resist with no special training, and with minimal risk to themselves. It was written by the "Office of Strategic Services", the organization that pre-dates the #CIA, and was de-classified in 2008.
Be annoying? I'm already an expert at that!
Declassified #CIAGuide to Sabotaging #Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "#SimpleSabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
by Jason Koebler Jason Koebler, Jan 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"A declassified World War II-era government guide to 'simple sabotage' is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. The book, called 'Simple Sabotage Field Manual,' was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and 'describes ways to train normal people to be purposefully #annoying telephone operators, dysfunctional train conductors, befuddling middle managers, blundering factory workers, unruly movie theater patrons, and so on. In other words, teaching people to do their jobs badly.'
"Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on #ProjectGutenberg, 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).
"'#Sabotage varies from highly technical coup de main acts that require detailed planning and the use of specially-trained operatives, to innumerable simple acts which the ordinary individual #CitizenSaboteur can perform,' the guide begins. 'Simple sabotage does not require specially prepared tools or equipment; it is executed by an ordinary citizen who may or may not act individually and without the necessity for active connection with an organized group; and it is carried out in such a way as to involve a minimum danger of injury, detection, and reprisal.'"
Learn more:
https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
Link to manual:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184?ref=404media.co
#Resistance #ResistTyranny #ResistFascism #USPol #WorldPol #Fascism #Tyranny
UPDATED Simple Sabotage Manual
Fixed some typos, removed some scanning artifacts.
Here's the 1944 Simple Sabotage manual in a searchable, indexed PDF.
#SimpleSabotage #OSS
One page is particularly interesting... describes so much of what happens at institutions and society in general...
#simplesabotage #fieldmanual general #interference with #organizations
@pluralistic
Order the wrong items. Monitors/keyboards you know break. Cables you won't use. Printers with known issues, subscription services, etc.. Everything you buy/recommend should have long term financial obligations & a poor online reputation.
Stress safety & ergonomics. Ergonomic chairs, keyboards, mice. Then order different replacements as "not right". Make sure to blame lack of production on these issues. Demand expensive headsets. Break them. Demand replacements.
#SimpleSabotage
This is also cumulative ammunition to push for effective #RightToDisconnect law @MontgomeryGator
Oh, it's too disruptive to monitor job communications outside our contracted working hours? Yeah I guess you're right, boss. Hey look here's a law that would help, I guess you'd support this then boss