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An idea that has finally gained international traction following its adoption and promotion by the most excellent artist Joe Skaggs (see link at end)
I promised its return and here it is as before but now as an actual live event that anyone can join.
There are 34 million adults living in Ukraine,
adults
defined as being over 18 years of age.
My idea is to present each of them with a replica mask of
Russian leader Putin. The masks would fit over the entire
head; composed of a flexible latex type material, and be
highly realistic.
Once a week, The Million Putins march would take place
in
Kiev, and other cities would be invited to organise their
own similar events to generate a global response to
Putin's
mad antics. (this is now about to go live)
Participants would be encouraged to carry out a variety
of
choreographed, mass participant performance acts in the
guise of Putin,
such as:
Bad Juggling With Furniture
Getting
Stuck
Under The Pole Limbo Dancing
Bucket Feet Ballet
Burning Bagpipes Orchestra
and of course The
Toast Scraping 5k Race
A tiktok channel with the hashtag Root'n-Toot'n-Putin will
naturally be unleashed to record, entertain
and
encourage even more nonsense and ridicule.
And finally it's over to you to join in by following the link and downloading your own Putin mask.
Download Your Own Putin Mask
https://joeyskaggs....he-spread-of-putin/
join the protest against Putin's genocide in Ukraine [xenzag, Mar 23 2022]
Call for global protest
https://www.washing...al-protest-ukraine/
[xenzag, Mar 24 2022]
the edgy comedy of Sunflower seeds
https://www.theguar...sian-soldiers-video
[Sgt Teacup, Mar 24 2022]
Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK for posting ‘offensive’ tweet
https://www.theverg...-moore-joseph-kelly
[Voice, Apr 02 2022]
[link]
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Can you explain the toast scraping thing? Try as I might, I
cannot work out what you might mean by that. |
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Scraping toast is what you do when you've burnt your bread but can still save the remains if you scrape off the burnt bits. It makes a great noise and when many people do it together it becomes another act of inexplicable non-sense to confound those (like Putin) who are incapable of understanding creativity or humour or humanity (in spite of a certain someone describing his invasion as a genius act) Putin is in actual fact a total moron who will go down in history as one of the biggest idiots to ever get into a position of power. Every time you scrape the burnt black stuff off your toast, think of Putin's idiocy. |
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Putin clearly doesn't give a shit. Do something useful instead. |
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I always thought that halfbaked ideas were the
opposite of being "useful" so I think I'll stick with
generating nonsense in the face of a psycho war
criminal. It just seems like a natural reaction to
me. I'm actually hugely complimented that a real
genius (Joey Skaggs) is in complete agreement. It's
just a little bit sad how sensible, predictable,
domesticated, humourless and negative the
halfbakery has become. |
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One minute you're calling it genocide- the next, treating it
as something to be silly about.
I've got to admit I don't see the fun in an active, bloody and
worsening war. |
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You once complained a great deal in an idea I had because
someone had been murdered a couple of years previously
under entirely unrelated circumstances. Since this is a)
vastly higher in death-toll, b) much closer in time, and c)
actually related, why don't you explain to me why this isn't
about a billion times worse? |
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You do realize, of course, that Putin will ban all toasters
outright once he realizes that they're being used as a tool of
sedition? [+] |
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See last link
Zelensky, who has become a
venerated figure inside Ukraine and out, called for
a global protest on Thursday, urging people
everywhere to take to the streets and denounce
Russian aggression.
“Make yourself visible and heard,” he said in
English during the multilingual video address. “Say
that people matter, freedom matters. Peace
matters. Ukraine matters.” |
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I was missing the metaphor, but now I see it as a way to scrape way the vision people are seeing of Putin instead of Jesus. |
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//One minute you're calling it genocide- the next,
treating it as something to be silly about.// There
is no greater weapon than humour and ridicule as
there is no defence against it. Putin is a
caricature; an idiot drilling a hole in the bottom of
his own boat because he wants to have a fountain
to watch. |
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censorship, via deleting and reposting ideas [-] |
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//There is no greater weapon than humour and ridicule as
there is no defence against it.// |
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You mean, apart from not allowing the population to see or
hear it? Because that's a pretty good defence. |
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In the modern era of Starlink and VPNs is it really? Even in the old times there's that joke about the man who asked for a Pravda three times. |
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The only effective cultural* response to bullies and tyrants is true comedy, the kind that exposes the bratty-child belligerence of the bully's actions. |
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This is why the only folks who can tell the balanced, all-3-sides** of truth these days are the satirists and comedians, and it is why they are our way forward. |
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Insanity: Bashing people over the head, blowing up stuff, and sanctioning the common people hasn't worked so far, let's do it again. |
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Sanity: Let's employ our international powers to stop crime*** while simultaneously using healthy humour and smart satire to take the intellectual legs out from under the bully. |
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*Yes, violence, guns etc. are used by 'cultures', but in this case 'cultural' means the thinking/believing part of a group of people. |
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**Points of view: 1. yours, 2. mine, and 3. what really happened. |
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***A combination of 007-type subterfuge, cyber-hacking, power grid tomfoolery, freezing oligarchs' assets, and similar. TNT may be required for some of these actions, but didn't a 75 year old woman with a shovel disrupt Internet in 2 nations? So, shovels are a powerful tool, just like sunflower seeds (see link). |
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How much do your flexible latex "highly realistic" putin
heads cost?
Let's suppose £10 each, which seems to be on the low side
of low-end consumer-grade full-head masks on Amazon. |
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This means your scheme costs 3 Billion (for 300 million
masks, distribution, etc). |
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I propose we take this money, and instead do something
which might actually make a
difference.
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Russia is apparently paying Syrians $7,000 each to join
Russian troops in the war. That's
pretty cheap. How about we start a bidding war, and hire
Syrians at $7,500 to join the
humanitarian effort and other support roles in Ukraine. |
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Syrians should prefer this offer - more money for less risk. |
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Russia says it has signed up 16,000 recruits... well we can
afford over 500,000 with your 3
billion quid, at these prices. |
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So the Russians would have to raise their prices. But if they
do- so do we! |
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// This is why the only folks who can tell the balanced, all-3-sides** of truth these days are the satirists and comedians, and it is why they are our way forward.// |
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Which is one reason freedom of speech must not be constrained. Looking at you, dear ol' England. |
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//Which is one reason freedom of speech must not be
constrained. Looking at you, dear ol' England.// |
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re. Voice's link (Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of
community service in UK for posting
‘offensive’ tweet): |
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Yeah, that does look concerning. I guess I have a few
contradictory feelings about that.
While the punishment given isn't life-changing (it's unpaid
work arranged outside your work
hours if employed, so perhaps one day a week for 20
weeks) - it's still pretty significant. and
for a tweet in poor taste deleted within 20 minutes I'd say
it was extremely harsh. I'd say the
issue isn't so much the law as perhaps the tendency to give
punitive punishments 'as
deterrent', essentially at random from the point of view of
the recipient.
I can't say I'm completely happy with the situation, but it's
not completely Orwellian. |
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Regardless, I'm not convinced the UK is actually less free
with respect to speech than the
USA in practice. "Free speech" is only a thing in the US for
your interactions with the
government, and it has much more of a problem with
cancel culture.
Furthermore, America's obsession with the embodiment of
free speech seems to have quite a
few deleterious consequences. |
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If you look at, say, the human freedom index 2022, you'll
see that the UK is just above the
USA. If you look at the constituents of that metric, the UK
does rather better on personal
freedoms, and worse on economic freedoms. I think to
some extent these two are in conflict
- if you introduce a law regulating how businesses can
interact with people, the former is
increased and the latter decreased.
I think the take-away from that is the UK (and the USA) are
both pretty free by current
standards. I wouldn't worry too much hearing about one
single aberrant judgement, I'd worry
if there were reports of lots - or none. |
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