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/
196Dude did you just reveal his identity and ruin his secret streak?
102Plot twist: saltesc is the real tree cone fugitive and they just pinned their crimes on a rival stuntman
57Their comment has been posted before. Either they ruined it ages ago, or it has become copy-pasta, protecting the identity of the climber.
25Haha. 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.
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Look at this fuckin snitch, dropping imdb links.
81I'm glad to hear the tree was able to find a job in stunts
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Surrealism is always antifascist. Cruelty and absurdity are two sides of the same coin, or perhaps the same side of two coins.
79Your metaphor is not working. Cruelty and absurdity are Ying and Yang?
18When 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?"
7There's absurdity in cruelty... there's cruelty in absurdity... kinda works... like a dark yin yang.
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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.
13Surrealism 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.
12is surrealism is antifascist than what are the other forms of art?
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Suspicousmaxxing to gaslight the authorities and waste their time is a very wholesome thing to do
69This 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.
43That's so beautiful and amazing! Love it. I'll have to think of a proposal to send him
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This is a great illustration of Chaotic Neutral
37I'm gonna bring a purple stone to the Fusion Festival next year in your honor.
32They really just pulled an uno reverse on the Stasi lmao
25Now 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.
21After many years the stasi suddenly realise they have created the worlds largest pride celebration.
Mission accomplished.
11Can't all visual art and performance art be boiled down to "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"?
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17This story is about Stasi in East Germany. You may have thought about Gestapo in NS-Germany. Or maybe you are from the US and just read Germany (just kidding)
17Yeah, my brain went on a bit of a detour between reading the story and posting.
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now what got fascists to do with the story?
5An embarrassing brain fart.
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Some people just want to watch the world scratch its head in bewilderment.
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Link to the original post (on Fesshole's official Mastodon because fuck Twitter) - https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/113069359291052427
6Let me introduce you to the Nappy Man
5That’s really cool but in German so no idea what I just watched
6Click "CC" in top right for closed captions, then click gear, ask it to change the captions to auto translate to English. Basically she's saying there's a guy dressed in a silly outfit (in video) walking around and no one knows why. Some people are scared.
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-3Okay, but where are Yakko and Wakko?
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That's a neat story. The Nazis did some terrible things and it actually makes me happy to know that somewhere there was a Nazis official who was baffled
Edit: wrong side and time
-18No one actually cared, but at least they felt good about painting rocks.
-54So, you know more about this. Great! Can you please tell me about that story?
64Sure! 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.
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It's fascinating that people have found your comment inherently negative when it is literally just the truth.
-7Is it fascinating i downvoted a comment that calls the post a lie without any evidence or even an attempt to make one besides vibes-based feelings? And those feelings boil down to 'no one cared'? Do you find my distaste for that comment fascinating? I think my downvote of that comment is actually a pretty bog standard reaction to pedantry
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