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Anarchy Easter Eggs (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

They really just pulled an uno reverse on the Stasi lmao

[–] [email protected] 196 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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] 103 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Okay, but where are Yakko and Wakko?

[–] [email protected] 79 points 4 months ago (15 children)

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

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[+] [email protected] -55 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[+] [email protected] -21 points 4 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] 15 points 4 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 4 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] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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:

they had a personal contact, which is quite the omission

the authorities were putting up posters around town, interviewing door-to-door etc

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 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 4 months ago (1 children)

As an armchair this also rubs me the wrong way

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Can you rub me the right way? Armchair?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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