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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

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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I started reading but i'm pretty sure this book is illegal in my country

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Was that law passed by Oswald Mosley or something?

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Haha, yes... sabotaging checks notes Fascism. That's what the CIA is historically very good at.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

This was when they were the OSS and our enemy was literally fascists

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As someone who’s been spreading this since my Fark days I’m glad the kids found it.

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[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s too outdated to be really useful. This just makes life hell for people, not stopping fascism. What we need is the field manual on how to make fascists fear for their lives enough that they crush themselves.

A lot of this would be good for fucking up capitalism, but we are way past that being an option.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Unfortunately, "making life hell for people" is part of how you stop any government from working. Reduce efficiency, increase disorder and confusion, and make people angry enough to actually want to tear down the system.

Governments where everyone is chipper and basically have their needs met don't collapse, and people don't fight to collapse them.

It's like the people who say that protests shouldn't inconvenience anyone. The inconvenience is the point.

Happy people don't kneel cops in the Dunkin donuts parking lot.

If people are dumb enough to think inflation was 100% Bidens fault and electing a 2016 President will bring back 2016 prices then they'll blame empty napkin dispensers and clogged toilets on Trump.

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