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All I can conclude from this is that the kid on the right is a retard who's too stupid and/or lazy to just move his ladder to the side of the tree where he can reach the apples.
Yep...
Instead of doing anything to better their own situation they expect everyone else to do the work for them
At least the fence thing to watch the game without buying a ticket made some sense.
The fence one is where three commies expect to be able watch a game, i.e. partake in a luxury, without paying for it. Equality is building the fence higher so those entitled thieves have to pay like everyone else, and get a job which contributed to society instead of expecting everything for free.
Also that libtards don't own a dictionary because that's not what any of those words mean.
"Okay, for the sake of argument, explain how we'd reach this utopia?"
"Communism!"
"Any more details...?"
"Communism!"
Communism is two things - a faith based, twisted religion aimed at malcontents. And a stepladder for sociopaths to use that army of malcontents to seize power. Neither are actually a structured political ideology.
It is a death cult that draws spiteful mutants who are angry at God for daring to make a universe that doesn't conform to their whims.
So they lash out by hurting those who are successful partly to prevent the successful from reminding the mutants of their own inadequacy an partly to get revenge on God.
The ultimate goal, whether the proponents realize it or not, is to destroy everything so badly that so frequently that it can no longer be rebuilt. Only then will the malcontents find peace because there will be nobody to show them how it is possible for there to be better.
It is a retelling Cain and Abel and has been playing out since the beginning of our species.
And considering I was originally an atheist who is now more of an agnostic (who has time these days to care about what other people are doing when it comes to their religion?) seeing the religious fervor of the left wing cult of communism + social justice was the wake-up call I needed to realize I was just dealing with a secular version of a religion leftists made to make up for the emptiness in their souls.
The problem with atheism is that while some individuals are capable of understanding the benefit of moral behavior without a guiding framework, many are not. Every functioning society requires a religious backbone.
This cartoon seems to leave out the cute kid with a gun organizing this
This would be more accurate if the tree was made of other American citizens being as that they have to force and twist us to make it easy for others to have what others have
See how simplistic their world view is? "Things people need are just... there. And meanies won't let us take it!"
Fucking children
Also left wing "equity/justice" is, for example, cutting the legs or arms of the kid on the left to make it "equal" to the misery of the kid on the right.
Sigh, The Giving Tree turned Marxist for those who don't recognize the art. About time we put that Tolkien bit about "Evil cannot create..." in the sidebar.
The Giving Tree
Its about a boy who can talk to a tree, wealthy and rich and bountiful. And at first the boy just likes to play on the tree
--- then he starts asking the tree for crap
---asks for an apple to make money
--- asks for branches to make a house
--- asks for the trunk to make a boat
---asks for a stump to sit on
and this kid never says thank you, not even once.
----but the tree was happy in the end
is this story supposed to be an allegory for the relationship between Israel and America.? Or the "you will own nothing and be happy" crap?
It's so simple that you can read anything you want into it.
Parenthood, Jesus, men giving their all to country, anything that involves a positive take on self-sacrifice. Or just take it as a pro-industrial allegory. Natural resources want to be used by mankind. The tree takes joy in being harvested. The ore takes joy in being smelted. They exist for mankind's benefit and are fulfilled by their purpose.
If Impy weren't banned, he could tell you that the child represents women and the tree is a simp.
it is a metaphor for parenthood
Yes, yes, I know. Silverstein's work was pretty unique, and clearly more personal artistic expression than the agenda pushing that became ubiquitous during his generation. Frankly I view all the controversy and attempts at literally criticism around "The Giving Tree" and his other works to be a bunch of fart sniffing. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. There's not a whole lot of space for Jewish or communist propaganda in a body of work that seems like a sometimes macabre combination of fairy tales, Belloc's children's tales, and Dr. Seuss.
Edit: Except when you make it like OP's post.
Sounds like a shitty story that conditions kids to give away everything they have to that one fucking neighbour that does nothing but mooch around the neighbourhood.
Unending demands for things they didn't earn, as per tradition
Just the part where melkor tries to take over the creation and uses all of it to his own will, because he cannot create his own.
Intelligence.
Walk to the other side of the tree.
Or go get a taller ladder. Or get a cheap grabby claw on a stick. Or shake the damn tree.
To fit in with the leftist mantra of working together.
Walk to the fucking other side of the tree and work together so you can get the apples TWICE AS FAST..
But this is the left so they don't want to spend all the time working for it.
Or, trade your labour of clearing branches and leaves to the person on the other side of the tree in exchange for apples? If the tree leans to one side, it'll be dropping more debris on that side and will require more work than a single person can provide to keep tidy.
It's as though there's already a clear and widely used solution to this problem.
What if I don't like apples? Who's going to give me oranges?
I still enjoy the story of the actual book but these people don’t understand that the best you can do is say everyone has equal opportunity. As Sowell has said numerous times, life is a lottery. You can be born to a drug addicted mother or you can be born to billionaire parents. Those who have more and care are always welcome to voluntarily donate, tutor, or whatever. Volunteering is free.
Life is a series of choices, you get out of life what you put into it. You may not be able to control what happens but you are 100% in control of how you react (paraphrased from something Larry Elder’s dad said).
Honestly as a kid I hated to hear that life wasn’t fair, but that is a fact. Some people will have better access and opportunities. Teaching young people to blame nebulous forces for their shortcomings is dangerous
No. Your birth was not an accident. You are the product of the deliberate choices made by your parents, and your parents were products of the community and culture surrounding them. If your parents worked hard to provide a good life for you, and my parents fucked off and screwed me over, then our respective lots in life aren’t some arbitrary “lottery”. It’s just cause and effect, with plenty of blame to go around.
This compulsion to blame “society” for all disparate outcomes is really a subversive movement to separate children from parents and people from cultures. Advantages of birth are mostly earned, and the state redistributing those advantages is always communism. Why should the child of a crack whore have the same advantages in life as the child of two hard working parents? And what becomes of society when you artificially flatten those advantages in the name of equity? Why work hard for your children if their heightened productivity is just going to fund someone else’s shitty kids?
Not disagreeing with you but I guess I meant lottery in the sense that some people are born with natural talent like music and some aren’t. Some are born beautiful and many aren’t. But yes I agree with your statement regarding your parents effort. Case in point my parents were very strict about saving and investing and gave me many lectures about sound money. Unfortunately I didn’t take that advice until my 30s and am still reaping a few consequences from my younger years. My parents now are having a ball in retirement.
It's not a statement trying ignoring genetics or parental impact on a child and saying it's all random. It's a framing that only really works if you believe in a soul as the defining feature of a person. The "lottery" aspect is looking at it as if you're a soul about to be born onto earth. Then which parents and their circumstances are the random part.
It's just saying you didn't pick your parents and have to work with the opening hand you were dealt.
If you don't accept the framing then the sentiment doesn't make sense. The crack whore's kid could never have been born to the hardworking parents and vice-versa. In that case there's no possibilities because there's nothing comprising "you" before birth.
Its still a lottery, because you yourself cannot effect a single one of those things. You can only start to change or fix them once you are a decent ways into your life.
Sure we can trace every single little bit down to who and what it to blame for it happening, but that doesn't change the fact that you popped out and were dealt a hand that is either extremely lucky or terribly awfully not.
Generally, because children are innocent and shouldn't always be held to suffer infinitely the sins of their parents. If the situation of your birth has already determined your entire lot in life, then why should they ever work hard to begin with? You've already decided their value is worthless before they could even talk. Which just creates a resentful underbelly of losers who know they will never make it and turn to just taking it instead, through violence and crime.
There is a wide valley between "give crack babies a fighting chance to not end up a gang banger" and "give them free college and money and everything possible."
This is a perfect example of why the left is retarded. There is no logic in requiring the people being on opposite ends, so instead of one person moving slightly we must get ladders and readjust the tree so a person could be so inept as to not realizing to move to where the apples are falling.
Unintentionally logical though. It's showing that most people's disadvantages are their own fault. You don't need the government, just move with your own two feet.
It really showcases that, even in their own arguments, the left is incapable of doing even the smallest thing themselves to avoid inconveniencing others.
And they kill the tree while trying to "fix" it.
They're so fucking stupid it hurts
and their vote counts as much as yours, more probably because theirs won't be thrown out by infiltrators
There is literally nothing stopping the stupid blue kid from walking next to the red kid. And somehow being equal without a ladder is inequality but equal with ladders is equality.
Even their memes demonstrate why they fail to achieve anything on their own and can only take things from others.
Isn't equality just both sides being allowed to pick up apples?
As many people have pointed put, the blue kid could just walk to the other side and get some apples. Maybe he can't because, in a system without equality (like equity), there are different rules for different people? So, rather than ladders, equality is just the blue kid being able to do the same thing as the red kid.
Let me translate: "we hate the way God made us so we need to change things because we're better than God and know better than God."
Not shown: A group of people pruning the left side of the tree and taking the Green shirt's apples to give them to red shirt, who still has the taller ladder.
Maybe teach kids that they can ... you know ... move? BAM! Problem solved in the first picture.
It's a great infographic because the artist fundamentally misunderstands how trees work, just like how SJWs fundamentally misunderstand how reality works.
And once again effort, intelligence, and value are not rewarded. Communism is not justice, it's a wolf in sheep's clothing. There's little that's less fair than being rewarded in the same manner for hard work or no work.
They talk about opportunities in it but show it as luck. Put a pile of wood some nails and a hammer next to the kids. One kid builds the ladder while the other shoots up heroine and complains about the man keeping him down. We shall call this slide “reality”
lol
Justice is deporting these migrant fruit pickers.
There isn't a ladder long enough for the bottomless-pit useless eaters.
Real consequences : Social justice trying to ''fix'' the system for equality of outcomes caused the tree to die.
Actual acceptable alternative : grow your own tree on your own land and defend your people from invasion so your children can enjoy the fruits and grow more trees.
In communism, both children are then shot for stealing food from The People's Tree.
Justice is changing the height of the tree.
Cut the tree down and both sides can pick all the apples: justice!
Where did all that free lumber come from?
None of those are correct because it seems like the boy on the left is not affected when in fact the application is always about taking from the boy on the left and give it to the boy on the right.
Literally bending the will of society to work for them.
Just move your ladder you fuck.
fucking apple thieves. shoot em.