Did You Read This Thing?
Simple sabotage is a concept from many years ago. In these chaotic times, billionaires like Elon Musk act like bond villains. Political disruptors like Donald Trump spread chaos across digital platforms and legal systems. So, what better tool to turn to than an extremely relevant 80-year-old CIA manual on sabotage?
Yes, folks, 404 Media has unearthed the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual from 1944 and suggests it might just be the key to defeating modern fascism. So, forget cybersecurity, legal reform, or organized activism – grab your pebbles and thread because the resistance starts in your junk drawer!
Since a lot of people don’t know where satire begins & ends I’ll let you know, my real point is this guide is stupid and the satirical nature is pretending it will help you.
Salt, Nails, and Candles: The Holy Trinity of Digital Warfare
Who needs encryption or digital literacy when you can sprinkle some salt in your enemy’s typewriter? Oh wait, Musk doesn’t use a typewriter? No problem! Just throw some pebbles at your Wi-Fi router and watch democracy bloom.
Let’s not forget candles. Because nothing strikes fear into the heart of a tech mogul like… mood lighting?
Bickering and Surliness: The True Tools of Resistance
Why organize protests or hold people accountable through legal channels when you can just be passive-aggressive in your office Zoom call? Better yet, take the manual’s advice literally and intentionally mismanage your workplace. That’ll show ‘em.
Forget direct action – what we need now is a nationwide wave of mild inconvenience. Picture this: Democracy saved by Karen from accounting taking extra long coffee breaks.
Sabotaging the Wrong Century & the Wrong Country
Here’s the kicker: The manual is designed for sabotaging enemy manufacturing plants during WWII, not dismantling digital empires or stopping fascist-friendly legal maneuvers. The fact that anyone thinks this applies to today’s world is either laughable or suspicious. Are they just clueless, or is 404 Media secretly playing for the other team?
Because let’s face it – if the resistance starts with pebbles and petty squabbles, we’ve already lost.
A Guide for Weakening Nations Won’t Save Us
For anyone who actually read the document instead of just memeing it into relevance, the real purpose of the Simple Sabotage Field Manual becomes clear: it was a playbook for infiltrating and destabilizing enemy nations, making them ripe for American intervention. The whole point was to weaken a government, undermine its economy, and grind its systems into dysfunction.
That is not what we need right now. If anything, Musk and Trump are already using these tactics – whether by accident or design – to turn their own institutions into circus acts. Their former followers, now mired in chaos, distraction, and internal disputes, are already living proof that indirect sabotage techniques are wildly effective at rendering people useless.
The idea that we should copy that strategy, when our actual goal is to preserve a functioning government and economy, is both idiotic and counterproductive. The last thing we need is a bunch of people roleplaying as saboteurs when what’s required is decisive, organized action.
Real Disruption In This Regime Isn’t Child’s Play
The most frustrating part? I’ve successfully disrupted plans like theirs before. But because I don’t get credit for it, the effects are temporary, limited, and easily buried under the absurd media theatrics these guys can summon at will.
If 404 Media actually wanted to help, they wouldn’t be handing out retro sabotage cosplay manuals – they’d be amplifying strategies that work today. But then again, that might actually threaten Musk and Trump’s stranglehold on public discourse, and we can’t have that now, can we?
Leave the Pebbles, and Listen To Me
It’s tempting to romanticize old-school spy tactics. But today’s fight is in courtrooms, boardrooms, and online. If your plan to fight authoritarianism involves sabotaging office supplies or being annoying in meetings, you’re not fighting fascism – you’re just making life harder for those who are.
Leave the 1944 sabotage manual in the history books, where it belongs. The real resistance needs more than salt and surliness. It needs strategy, solidarity, and a little common sense. For the last several years I have caused disruption from the shadows. Many people are afraid of confronting these powerful forces head on. Others don’t know what to do about it. I have the courage, discipline, and willingness. But I cannot do it without your help. I need your financial support and your willingness to recognize me as a leader in this revolution. Without you, we will be overtaken.
