Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral - eviltoast
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    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.”

    Turns out I’ve been fighting fascism all along.

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      • “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.”

      Dam, I didn’t know I was a freedom fighter