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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/
Dude did you just reveal his identity and ruin his secret streak?
Plot twist: saltesc is the real tree cone fugitive and they just pinned their crimes on a rival stuntman
Their comment has been posted before. Either they ruined it ages ago, or it has become copy-pasta, protecting the identity of the climber.
Look at this fuckin snitch, dropping imdb links.
I’m glad to hear the tree was able to find a job in stunts
Surrealism is always antifascist. Cruelty and absurdity are two sides of the same coin, or perhaps the same side of two coins.
Your metaphor is not working. Cruelty and absurdity are Ying and Yang?
It’s a surrealist metaphor
When you write a declaration of peace with the blood of your enemies.
“Sir this is rescue for puppies, why did you make a flag out of their pelt?”
There’s absurdity in cruelty… there’s cruelty in absurdity… kinda works… like a dark yin yang.
You don’t find it so? Maybe I read too much Vonnegut as a kid, it seems clear to me.
You say surrealism is anti-fascist. Then you say cruelty and absurdity are the same thing (two sides of the same coin). Then you try to clarify by saying they are two separate things but have a commonality (two coins same side). I think ying/yang is more fitting, and quicker to the punch, in that there can be a little cruelty in absurdity and vise versa, which you were dancing around with your ill fitting metaphor. So, yes, I don’t think so. Clarity is in the eye of the beer holder.
The expression “two sides of the same coin” does not mean two things that are the same. It means two things with the same base and opposite expressions.
As such, the same side of two different coins indicates two different bases with the same expression
The metaphor works better and acknowledges more nuance than the Yin Yang.
I actually think I see a little of what you’re getting at, but maybe it’s just my willful interpretation.
The absurd is the gap between what we expect to happen, and what actually happens. We expect to go to work today, it’ll be mundane and boring, and then an asteroid hits the road and we can’t go in today. How absurd.
Cruelty is often a tool people use to gain control. The absurd by definition is outside of our control. I can see how these could be related in some way
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.
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.
I’d argue semantically that surrealism is that which lies under reality whereas Doublethink (and other Orwellian language) lies over reality
You may be thinking of 'Pataphysics:
the science of that which is superinduced upon metaphysics, whether within or beyond the latter’s limitations, extending as far beyond metaphysics as the latter extends beyond physics
I’m gonna bring a purple stone to the Fusion Festival next year in your honor.
They really just pulled an uno reverse on the Stasi lmao
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This 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)
Yeah, my brain went on a bit of a detour between reading the story and posting.
now what got fascists to do with the story?
An embarrassing brain fart.
Let me introduce you to the Nappy Man
That’s really cool but in German so no idea what I just watched
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Okay, but where are Yakko and Wakko?
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
The Stasi was the secret police of communist East Germany, not the Nazis.
No one actually cared, but at least they felt good about painting rocks.
So, you know more about this. Great! Can you please tell me about that story?
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.
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?
As an armchair this also rubs me the wrong way
Can you rub me the right way? Armchair?
JD Vance?
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Well I was there, and I can tell you the Stasi were confused af. Got a nice giggle out of it
This is like what you get when you ask chat gpt to summarize something 😂
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?
Surely the point is that the OP couldn’t possibly have known what the authority thought about their painted stones, unless:
- they had a personal contact, which is quite the omission
or
- the authorities were putting up posters around town, interviewing door-to-door etc
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.
Ok, I guess this is a matter of opinion, but ‘cops going around asking people about some purple rocks’ just doesn’t pass the sniff test for me
It’s fascinating that people have found your comment inherently negative when it is literally just the truth.
Is 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
- … bog-standard reaction to pedantry. /s
😂
Yes, I do.
ok
