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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).
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I don’t spot the difference between this and how most modern day corporations are operated:
- “To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
- “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.”
My company has been fighting fascism this whole time. Wow!
“To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
So is this why DEI exists?
DEI exists because racists often have hiring power. It doesn’t force the hiring of the unqualified, it supports the qualified from not being discriminated against.
Nice “centrism” btw.
Why is centrism in quotes?
Because most supposed “centrists” don’t really have a balanced centrist opinion at all. Most “centrists” seem to believe that being politically and socially uninformed is the most reasonable and intelligent take, saying “I’m not taking sides because I’m better than that” in a literal holier-than-thou sense of superiority, basically proud of their ignorance, who ends up doing more to hate on protestors and bend over backwards for the status quo. They’re about as right-wing as it gets, just quieter and absolute absence of a spine.
You’re thinking of Neutralians from Futurama, not centrists.
Centrists are simply people who don’t subscribe to the party platform of any particular political party. They still have opinions on certain issues and they still vote. If the DNC came out tomorrow in support of something I know nothing about, I wouldn’t automatically start supporting that thing, nor decry people who don’t. I’d try to find out as much as I can about it, and if I still feel ignorant, I don’t vote on it.
Source: Me, I’m a centrist.
You’re describing an independent.
Centrists explicitly try to place themselves in the middle of two sides, which given how insane and authoritarian one side often is, makes even the middle point of those views unreasonable to hold.
Seems we’re simply working with different definitions.
Mine appears to align with Wikipedia. Where are you getting yours from?
How’s that working out for you?
Just fine, thank you. How are you?
So riddle me this, why is it hard to believe that DEI type policies could be plot by some organization or country against the U.S. when there’s literally a field manual which says that such policies should be used against “fascists”. People on Lemmy call the U.S. imperialist all the time.
The flaw in your argument is the false equivalency between minorities (people the DEI programs are there to support) and “inefficient workers”.
Are straight white dudes exempt from ever being considered inefficient? That’s silly.
DEI goes beyond hiring. If you have a sizeable office but no comfortable and private area for new mothers to pump breast milk that’s being inequitable to them. Same for maternity and paternity leave policies. These are not about giving advantage to minorities.
There is more merit to people in a meritocracy than grades alone.
Do you not believe in getting opportunity? Can you recall a few times people took a chance on you? What if nobody ever did?
Please stop. I literally made this thread a while back
https://lemmy.world/post/15392191
I believe in people getting opportunities. What I don’t like are thought police, or thought correction officers.
Left authoritarianism is still authoritarianism.
I also don’t take it for granted that someone talking about “empathy” or “compassion” necessarily doesn’t have ulterior motives.
DEI only irks people who are racists. For everyone else, it’s just a hiring process.
DEI is for all identities, not just POC. Creating more process is part of the the CIA field manual for fighting fascists, hence the question, are more bureaucratic jobs being created in some misguided attempt to “fight US imperialism”?
No, I won’t. Considering what you wrote in your linked post, why are you asking such strange questions?
Thought police? Yet you’re ok with being told not to touch/compliment women’s butts at work??
I won’t stop because you’re hilariously inept 🤣
I am asking these questions because we already have EO laws and ADA policies. We also have anti-harassment policies. What does DEI add that’s new other than create more bureaucratic jobs?
From my perspective, DEI just creates divisions between groups by splitting people into distinct identities.
I was expecting something subtle, some sort of resistance from within type stuff.
Warehouses, barracks, offices, hotels, and factory buildings are outstanding targets for simple sabotage. They are extremely susceptible to damage, especially by fire.
Not so much.
Hell yeah! This is great! I’m glad I’m not the only one sharing it around to friends and neighbors. True resistance is not the flashy stuff; it’s a whole of society approach to stop fascists in their tracks. True resistance is the sum total of small acts to inconvenience and impede a fascist.
The thing is that these techniques were intended to be used in hostile opponent countries, not your own.
“Shut down America” isn’t a goal any American should have - instead, work to make a positive difference.
Ignore this document. It’s a plant.
It suggests filing metal containers that contain gasoline. They just want to see who shows up in ERs or local police dept with specific injuries or vandalism charges.
Edit: the anarchist cookbook that circulated in the 90s and 2000s was a false flag that was intended to remove fingers, hands, and entire faces. It was a funded attempt to get ‘smart people’ to blow their hands off. The doc posted by OP has the same hallmark copy-paste from reputable sources mixed with advice from chaos agents.
It’s eighty years old. It’s a different world. That doesn’t make this bullshit at the time.
The physics of combustion and gas phases has not changed appreciably on planet earth until atmosphere arrived. Gasoline vapor will ignite if you grind metal on metal nearby.
What’s the chemistry there?
Grinding metal can create large voltage potentials which can create arcs which can ignite gasoline vapor which can cause an explosion.
More to the point, i’m commenting on semi competent text followed by suicide advice. I stopped reading to make my previous post. I’ll pick back up to see if there are any more obvious points.
What the royal shitballs are you on about?! Grinding creates sparks from friction, have you never used a damn anglegrinder?
You’re missing the point. Shearing creates voltage potential.
Grinding metal makes a voltage potential?
… How?
That makes no sense. With enough energy grinding metal can spark purely from friction, but it’s not generating appreciable static electricity. Not even close.
The same way that rubbing fur on amber creates static. Elastic shear.
I haven’t read that bit. I misread filing as filling.
Haha, no worries. It’s a manual for ending your life.
