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[–] [email protected] 198 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

My friend used to climb massive pine trees late at night in a park across his street, and place traffic cones on top. No one knew who was doing it or why. Many people thought it was the local council marking the trees to be cut down which upset residents. He started noticing police regularly patrolling the area, but he kept doing it and never got caught. It made the local paper, explaining how much confusion and disruption it was causing the police and local council. He hung the article on his wall.

Went on to become a stuntman https://imdb.com/name/nm3068647/

[–] [email protected] 102 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Dude did you just reveal his identity and ruin his secret streak?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Plot twist: saltesc is the real tree cone fugitive and they just pinned their crimes on a rival stuntman

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

Their comment has been posted before. Either they ruined it ages ago, or it has become copy-pasta, protecting the identity of the climber.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Haha. I'm sure the police knew. He had been arrested a few times for climbing bridges and construction sites around the city. Then get dropped home right by a massive pine tree with a cone on top.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 7 months ago

Look at this fuckin snitch, dropping imdb links.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

I'm glad to hear the tree was able to find a job in stunts

[–] [email protected] 88 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Surrealism is always antifascist. Cruelty and absurdity are two sides of the same coin, or perhaps the same side of two coins.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Your metaphor is not working. Cruelty and absurdity are Ying and Yang?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's a surrealist metaphor

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I'm going to use this in the future.

"What? Your calculations don't make any sense."

"It's surrealist math."

"..."

"Pfft I knew you wouldn't get it"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

When you write a declaration of peace with the blood of your enemies.

"Sir this is a rescue for puppies, why did you make a flag out of their pelt?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

There's absurdity in cruelty... there's cruelty in absurdity... kinda works... like a dark yin yang.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Surrealism is always antifascist.

I dunno. Doublethink is pretty surreal, but it supports fascism. If you're just talking about art, I think you could make the case that the Italian Futurists were at least Surrealist-adjacent, and some of them supported fascism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'd argue semantically that surrealism is that which lies under reality whereas Doublethink (and other Orwellian language) lies over reality

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Absurdity is like seeing your cat go "mrwn! mrwn!" at the passing plane, then suddenly flying and catching it. Then cruelty is what your cat does with the passengers.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Suspicousmaxxing to gaslight the authorities and waste their time is a very wholesome thing to do

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This reminded me of a glass artist named Josh Simpson who is known for his glass spheres he calls “planets” that have amazingly complex scenes in them. For over two decades he’s had what he calls the “Infinity Project” where he encourages people to hide them out in the open where folks are unlikely to find one. If you submit a proposal to him that he likes then he’ll send you two of his smaller planets, one for you to hide and one to keep for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

That's so beautiful and amazing! Love it. I'll have to think of a proposal to send him

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago

This is a great illustration of Chaotic Neutral

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

I'm gonna bring a purple stone to the Fusion Festival next year in your honor.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Now THIS is art of a very high caliber, indeed!
It was just a public visual detail that elicited a stupid response from the very stupid people, and probably some delight from the rest of the population.

If I was one of the chief stassi goons in town, my response would have been "counter-intelligence art" or "counter-art", painting MORE stones purple and even other colors, so that whatever secret message the original ones were conveying would be confused, drowned out.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

After many years the stasi suddenly realise they have created the worlds largest pride celebration.

Mission accomplished.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No one actually cared, but at least they felt good about painting rocks.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So, you know more about this. Great! Can you please tell me about that story?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Sure! Like they said, it just felt good to do something that they felt the police couldn’t control or understand. From OP’s perspective, they needed to be able to exercise control over those that were controlling OP. Easy to understand.

That said, the police and Stasi are (given the time) tasked with prosecuting and attacking far more than what OP could have known about, and given the relatively playful nature of children in even some of the most dire circumstances, the police and Stasi didn’t have limitless resources to chase down something that, over time, produced no significant threat.

Both the police and the Stasi were wary and paranoid, but even they have their limits, and they weren’t completely stupid. They knew they had to devote their resources to far likelier threats.

As OP said, she wanted to feel in control, and no one can really blame them. OP felt good, and that’s what matters.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for your answer. Sorry, I really don’t want to come across like a duchebag asshole. But this sounds more like a general guess of what has happened or how the Stasi might have operated in your opinion (plus some armchair psychology that kinda rubs me the wrong way).

I literally just woke up and thought you might have some actual insight on this particular case?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As an armchair this also rubs me the wrong way

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Can you rub me the right way? Armchair?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

JD Vance?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

This is like what you get when you ask chat gpt to summarize something 😂

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Well I was there, and I can tell you the Stasi were confused af. Got a nice giggle out of it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You are not criticizing the OP, I guess, because you acknowledge their point, that it was meaningless, but it was entertaining to distract the Stasi. But you are criticizing the OP, because you think the Stasi were so competent?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Surely the point is that the OP couldn't possibly have known what the authority thought about their painted stones, unless:

  1. they had a personal contact, which is quite the omission

or

  1. the authorities were putting up posters around town, interviewing door-to-door etc
[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cops going around and asking about purple rocks would cause a tiny stir. A kid would be aware of that and entertained. This is pre- internet and It's Soviet culture. I'm not supporting the Soviets, but people talked to each other, which is generically quite positive.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Some people just want to watch the world scratch its head in bewilderment.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Link to the original post (on Fesshole's official Mastodon because fuck Twitter) - https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/113069359291052427

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Let me introduce you to the Nappy Man

https://youtu.be/jOLf61S4FzE?feature=shared

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That’s really cool but in German so no idea what I just watched

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