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It was amusing to see the GitLab ticket where they try to orchestrate the change. It’s still going on. At least 100 people involved and multiple tickets open fo

It was amusing to see the GitLab ticket where they try to orchestrate the change. It’s still going on. At least 100 people involved and multiple tickets open for an entirely pointless change.

jansan 6y ago
Take a look at CIA's "The Simple Sabotage Field Manual" from 1944 (declassified 2008). Under the section "General Interference with Organizations and Production" it recommends among other things: - "Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible" - "Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions."
- oefrha 6y ago
  This is actually worse. With bikeshedding, once the bored people have finally decided on the color of the bikeshed, everyone just goes on with their life unhindered. With this, once the bored people have decided to make the change, everyone and their mom has to waste time on following or actively resisting the change on their end.
- J-dawg 6y ago
  This is amazing, I'm noting this down for future use. As someone said elsewhere in this thread, it makes you wonder what's really going on while we are distracted by this stuff. What I find interesting is that there (probably? maybe?) isn't a shadowy CIA-like organisation promoting this stuff, this "tactic" is a naturally emergent property of the woke belief system. I think I find this more frightening than if there actually were a shadowy organisation pulling the strings: here we have a philosophy, which many well-intended people subscribe to, that causes them to behave like a sophisticated intelligence agency deliberately trying to disrupt a foreign power.
  - eurocent 6y ago
    In fact, a lot of that woke stuff actually comes from the CIA. It's a tactic they first used in the 70s in Europe, when "real" left parties (i.e. the old-school socialist/communist parties, affiliated with the soviet union) started gaining ground. All of a sudden they started funding a lot of stuff like that, because it weakened/marginalized those parties. Why fight for workers rights when you can fight for LGBT, immigrant, women rights, etc. I.e. the right of fifteen distinct groups that have no power. Much more recently that tactic was used to destroy the Occupy Wall Street movement.
    - J-dawg 6y ago
      That’s interesting, I didn’t know that. I wonder what is different now. The woke movement doesn’t seem to get any weaker, even as it adopts more and more identity groups.

It was amusing to see the GitLab ticket where they try to orchestrate the change. It’s still going on. At least 100 people involved and multiple tickets open for an entirely pointless change.

jansan 6y ago

Take a look at CIA's "The Simple Sabotage Field Manual" from 1944 (declassified 2008). Under the section "General Interference with Organizations and Production" it recommends among other things: - "Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible" - "Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions."

oefrha 6y ago
This is actually worse. With bikeshedding, once the bored people have finally decided on the color of the bikeshed, everyone just goes on with their life unhindered. With this, once the bored people have decided to make the change, everyone and their mom has to waste time on following or actively resisting the change on their end.
J-dawg 6y ago
This is amazing, I'm noting this down for future use. As someone said elsewhere in this thread, it makes you wonder what's really going on while we are distracted by this stuff. What I find interesting is that there (probably? maybe?) isn't a shadowy CIA-like organisation promoting this stuff, this "tactic" is a naturally emergent property of the woke belief system. I think I find this more frightening than if there actually were a shadowy organisation pulling the strings: here we have a philosophy, which many well-intended people subscribe to, that causes them to behave like a sophisticated intelligence agency deliberately trying to disrupt a foreign power.
- eurocent 6y ago
  In fact, a lot of that woke stuff actually comes from the CIA. It's a tactic they first used in the 70s in Europe, when "real" left parties (i.e. the old-school socialist/communist parties, affiliated with the soviet union) started gaining ground. All of a sudden they started funding a lot of stuff like that, because it weakened/marginalized those parties. Why fight for workers rights when you can fight for LGBT, immigrant, women rights, etc. I.e. the right of fifteen distinct groups that have no power. Much more recently that tactic was used to destroy the Occupy Wall Street movement.
  - J-dawg 6y ago
    That’s interesting, I didn’t know that. I wonder what is different now. The woke movement doesn’t seem to get any weaker, even as it adopts more and more identity groups.