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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

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):

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

232 comments
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I should have read this years ago ... some of the tips and tricks are reminders of how to take better care of your things

  • 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.

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