@ra6bit I'm genuinely interested, there any historical examples of such resistance? Were they successful?

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This describes one of the simplest, most elegant acts of resistance I have ever seen.

https://www.drive.com.au/caradvice/citroens-genius-act-of-sabotage-against-the-nazis-in-world-war-ii/

Citroen’s genius act of sabotage against the Nazis in World War II

When the German army rolled into France in 1940, the boss of Citroen was never just going to just lie down and surrender

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@dumbledope @dration @ra6bit This immediately popped into my mind.

@dumbledope @dration @ra6bit

"Who knows what the Germans thought? Maybe they put the T45’s engine failures down to the hard wear-and-tear of wartime use? Or maybe the sight of a stranded French truck by the roadside, smoke pouring from their French-built engines, reinforced the self-belief that German engineering was simply superior in every way."

❤️❤️❤️

@dumbledope @dration @ra6bit While American tech bros line DT’s pockets with bribes, this is real resistance. Americans are cowards, which is why they think they need guns. And I’m an American… who fled the country this week.
@dumbledope this makes me even more convinced that I chose the right car last time around 😀

@dration @ra6bit
Obviously not in the literal form above, which is by definition invisible, but similar:

* René Carmille slow-walking and sabotaging the identification of Jews from census records

* Work-to-rule, a form of industrial action where workers do no more than the minimum and/or strictly follow rules

@sabik @dration @ra6bit I've also heard that the Danish resistance movement is a good one to look into for sabotaging a Nazi regime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_resistance_movement

Danish resistance movement - Wikipedia

@sabik @dration @ra6bit Thing of it is, few acts in history are one huge moment. It's been about them wearing us down, and now hopefully us getting our shit together and returning the favor.

Whoever wins in a conflict is often the one that wears the other one down first, whether that's through violence or, ya know, malicious compliance. It's a team effort, all of us doing what we feel called to do, as safely or as dangerously as we are willing to risk.

@dration @ra6bit The lid o' me granny's bin is a perfect example.
@dration @ra6bit
The OSS, precursor to the CIA, actually wrote an entire field manual about that during WW2.

Here is a poor quality scan provided by the CIA:
https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
@dration @ra6bit See also Rene Carmille, head of French govt statistics dept at start of WW2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Carmille
René Carmille - Wikipedia