Nina spitting truths as always. She’s on fire recently, so follow her if you’re not doing so already.
To be clear; everyone working in my government, particularly after today, is a Nazi, or someone who works for Nazis. Do you know what we call people who worked for the Nazis, in the Nazi government? Yes, that is correct, Nazis.
So Machado is certainly not gonna feel lonely on the list of people on my TV who are definitely Nazis.
Oh, was that too harsh? Are you feeling bad for the good career civil servants, working for the literal fucking Nazis, who I have just impuned? Cool, let’s refer back to that part where I said I was surrounded by people who openly recognize that this is fascism, and ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY refuse to accept what that actually means.
We call people, who worked for the Nazi Party, in the Nazi government, Nazis. Nobody says “the Nazi government and the career civil servants who hated them but stayed.”
“They’ll just find someone else.”
Then let them. “I took the job at the concentration camp because I was sure Hitler would find someone else” was not a good defense in court last time, and it won’t be this time either.
That manual was published in 1944, when significant workplace malfeasance could be readily concealed. A worker in that time could easily hamper far more production than they were forced to produce to maintain their cover.
With modern workplace supervision, surveillance and record keeping designed specifically to identify and eliminate such “inefficiencies”, our modern saboteur cannot hope to achieve results anywhere close to those of his great-grandfather. The amount of production he has to achieve to maintain his cover greatly exceeds the loss of production from his efforts. Your great grandfather could throw a wrench in the gears and play dumb; you’ll be caught and prosecuted if you try the same, so you have to resort to less effective efforts.
With such extensive workplace surveillance in place, every worker in a unit can be a “saboteur”, and productivity from that unit can still be positive. They can churn out production even with every single worker actively trying to slow it.
Better for our would-be saboteur to resign. He sets the example for his former co-workers, while also saddling them with his work. His absence damages unit productivity more than he could achieve through active sabotage.
The tactics you are recommending are about 60 years out of date.
You’re assuming that literally every workplace is a surveillance panopticon.
Relative to the degree of surveillance possible when the sabotage handbook was written, “every” workplace is, indeed, a surveillance panopticon.
We have developed and propagated a wide variety of tools for identifying, tracking, and eliminating the kind of production inefficiencies contemplated by the Simple Sabotage manual. The degree of accountability a modern worker faces is several orders of magnitude greater than that of the 1940’s worker. Even the smallest businesses now have access to logistical and accounting systems and services that couldn’t possibly exist back then.
I didn’t “assume” this level of surveillance. That degree of surveillance is a simple fact.
It’s the opposite: Nazi sympathizers wants us to “nuance” that the mythic Schindler cannot do anything to prevent ICE and it’s continued fash acceleration, when they have everything in their power to destroy them. They even call him a Janitor 🧵, like if purging brown people and now white women is something to cleanup.
Nobody in the CIA is a good person, and the people that wrote that deprecated manual did it to sabotage other nation’s sovereignties.
The Nazis🧵 are equivalizing strategies to conquer other nations as strategies government employees should employ during a fascist coup already crystalizing.
When we’ve been saying from the start, those strategies DO NOT WORK. Nazis are still killing people in Minnesota, Louisiana, California, New York, etc…
We’ve introduced 60 years of middle management. This stuff is still valid.
And cameras. And keycards. And computer logs. And forensics. Try to sabotage something big enough to matter, and management can identify you in a heartbeat. That’s the end of your resistance.
The overwhelming majority of us can cause a far greater loss of productivity by simply not showing up for work than through surreptitious sabotage. That just wasn’t true when “this stuff” was written.
Never worked in a motor pool or warehouse, i see. Never crossed a bridge or a railway, either it seems. You from the moon…?
Both, actually.
This discussion stems from these comments:
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The premise here is “keep going to work, but do more harm than good”. If you get caught, you fail. If you get fired, you fail. If you are unable to cause greater harm than you produce, you fail. Meanwhile, the value of your labor (the job you have to keep doing to maintain your cover) is 6 to 10 times more valuable than that of your great grandfather. You’re producing 6 to 10 times as much as him; you need to be able to negate a commensurate amount of production, and you need to do it in a much more closely supervised environment. You have to do far more to look like a good employee, and in doing so, you’re setting the example for other workers to also look good at their jobs.
Sure, anyone can overtly sabotage a motor pool or warehouse and cause damage far in excess of a worker’s productivity. But that breaks the premise of the discussion. We aren’t talking about overt. We are talking about covert acts. We are talking about a long-term inside job.
The kind of sabotage conceived of in the Simple Sabotage Field Manual is a pipe dream 80 years later. It is not feasible. The harm a typical worker can expect to cause a modern enemy is a fraction of the productivity that enemy can continue to extract from that worker.
“Valid”
What is the point you’re attempting to make here?
You’re failing managing genocide, domestically and abroad. How was Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, Venezuela, Libya, Yemen, Hawaii, etc.?