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by hluska 569 days ago
I may be having an old fuddy duddy moment but I really dislike this site. My first suggestion was at least interesting. My second was to superglue things into place.

Will supergluing things in place actually help the oppressed? Are you the Harriet Tubman of adhesives? Or will someone who makes minimum wage get yelled at and then forced to clean it?

This is Tik Tok level pranks applied to serious political issues and frankly, oppressed people deserve better than this.

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The point is to have plausible deniability (just like the original simple sabotage manual). So they have to be realistic enough. Superglueing stuff down isn’t a plausible unless you’re on a boat. But requiring a signature with pen and paper is. Take it a step further and require blue ink (because “its distinguishable from a printed version” or choose a more obscure color for similar reasoning). But make sure to not tell them that until after the signature is received, so that they have to do it all over again.
The intent is for it to appear like childish pranks, mild incompetence, or best of all, nothing. The purpose is to delay and degrade harmful organizations and processes by a thousand tiny cuts.

It bears a strong resemblance to a handbook that went around during WW2 for workers within Nazi occupied territories.

At the very least it doesn't seem like sand-in-the-vaseline tactics are equally useful when applied everywhere, monkeywrenching some random business is not going to bring about the fall of late capitalism exactly, but if they managed to inspire millions of saboteurs it might - of course tough luck about those hospitals and food trucks we depending on.