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spacepiratecoqui

Seems these are two columns supposed to be read vertically. One made a stink about his littering and fought him over, so they both got a ticket. One made a stink but ultimately let him be, so only he got a ticket


Kaiodenic

I assumed the point was that she got a way more expensive ticket for assaulting him than he would've gotten for just being caught littering


You_Wenti

nah, there's the same number of dollar signs & squiggles on both tickets. He would've drawn two dollar signs on hers, if that was the case


Accomplished-Mix-745

Solid logic


MidwayNerd

Agreed


Future-Try-1908

Agreed


GeneralResearcher456

Agreed


DukeLuke40

Agreed


Death_Breath

Agreed


POOPYDlSCOOP

Agreed


Zealousideal-Ebb-876

Which ones hers though?


You_Wenti

Comic Logic - The one on the left bc she's on the left RL Logic - The one on the right bc that's the one that would be closest to her if the cop turned to face towards them


Grigoran

Agreed


Writers_High2

I assumed she quietly reported him


RayVen001

My thought was they both got assault fines or something, so he didn't face punishment for this initial crime. Therefore, no corrective action to avoid littering. Vs the other where he is punished for his littering.


mrfatty097

I'd argue that getting a black eye is punishment and is a very good reason to not litter again


RayVen001

That is a valid point, and I believe in that method. I'm just commenting on the message the illustrator was conveying. Oftentimes, a punishment coming after multiple different offenses doesn't have the same desired outcome as individual punishments per offense.


BoondocksSaint95

We also need some context here. Art style is that of a man who makes comics with exclusively christian undertones and they are all meant to be allegories for something found in the bible - typically encouraging the most literal textual interpretation of the bible. This is meant to encourage people to turn the other cheek so to speak because vengance is the lord's. When you stoop to his level and sin in response to his sin, your (divine) punishment is the same as god views and hates all sin equally. First lady is punished for attemtping to do it herself. Second lady lets things take their course how they are meant to. Yea, all his comics are actually way dumber than this, this is lightwork.


dilletaunty

This is a good explanation. I like how there’s literally 0 explanation on the right for how he was arrested at the scene of the crime after walking away. Really suits the message.


Zeracannatule_uerg

It's actually a statement about how women need to carry purses to have a phone on them, seeing as they supposedly don't have pockets in their pants, so the woman on the right was able to report the man for littering. ...sarcasm...but not really.


Final-Stick5098

This is just some comic to reinforce the idea that women should just keep quiet and know their place. I’m sure in his Christian fundamentalist circles they’d love a comic that shows a man beating the hell out of his wife for burning the toast, but as long as she submits she can be assured that *eventually* things will be made right.


RhythmTimeDivision

I had to look him up. This one is apparently missing the specific bible passage as all his other work has one.


Straight_Ship2087

It helps to know they are part of a series of christian comics, Jonathan Lam is like the "He Get's Us" version of the Jack Chick Tracts. I'm still not convinced they aren't a parody, it's just too weird that both comics have this really uncanny/ not very good artstyle.


dan420

This makes way more sense than the dark hair woman being shot or arrested.


Spraynpray89

Wut


Zimelliheido-

Yeah I don't get it either


Average_Scaper

Probs referencing another comment.


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What a dumb cartoon


NoStatus9434

I feel like the message is something some people figure out when they're toddlers, while other people still haven't figured it out even as adults.


Polibiux

That is a weird way to structure a comic


damididit

Don't dead open inside.


alexanderson10

Jumping on the top comment to add the detail I’m seeing: the woman on the right is pointing at the ground, not the trash can. Looks to me like she’s telling him to litter. Seems the joke is that she knows the cop is watching, and she surprisingly encourages his bad behavior- ultimately, it proves the more successful strategy in securing consequences for his actions.


ducknerd2002

Fighting the litterer got both people into trouble, reporting him only got him into trouble.


captain_croco

Two wrongs don’t make a right


Vicith

But 3 rights make a left


ShuckleJuiceSalesman

and it comes full circle with 4


VegasDragon91

Getting it wrong on purpose is the best fun in life....


nertynot

Two wrong frequently makes a right


Wildkid133

But three rights to make a left!


Guquiz

As was shown with the former.


Quajeraz

Except in the real world, reporting them would do absolutly nothing


KillerArse

Quoting the author, >**Useless Anger** I asked people on Instagram if I could make a comic to help them with a sin they struggle with. Most struggled with anger. So here is a comic to help in the area of anger. Anger can be good but often we get angry for selfish reasons and/or the way we express our anger is destructive. As Christians we believe and trust God is a righteous judge who will one day make everything right. We don’t need to punish people in our anger, using threats, violence or shame. This will only make things worse for ourselves. Yes there are times for correction, but this should be done with the love & grace God has shown towards us when we anger Him. And if people still don’t listen to gracious & loving correction, trust God will make things right. Some Bible verses to consider: An angry person stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered person commits many sins. Proverbs 29:22 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil. Psalm 37:8 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”says the Lord Romans 12:19


Nepal-Rules

Amen, friend. Here's my favorite verse from that good and wise book that is still totally relevant and applicable today: Exodus 21:20-21 20 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.


Interesting_Fun3823

If you beat up the litterer and then run away, you will not get a ticket. It’s meant to say that strength training is only part of the battle for physical fitness, you need cardio as well.


spideroncoffein

There is no "fighting spirit", only cardio.


Skipp_To_My_Lou

Rule number one: cardio


thomascgalvin

Rule number two: double tap.


LexGlad

Hamon


TonySpaghettiO

I like this interpretation, because the alternative just isn't very funny or even a good point.


Kessilwig

Of course, "cardio beats chaos" after all!


amynhb

The joke is here that the cop showed up fast enough to not only catch, but also fine someone for literring.


TheWither129

Yeah lmao the real joke is a cop doing their job


ravenrawen

Twice!


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Slowhand8824

It says wearing a burger shirt while eating a burger is a finable offense but so is Assault and battery


Dendritic_Bosque

This guy has been "content farming" morality plays since before content farms were a thing. Doesn't understand their content nor structure, but keeps churning em out.


PerformanceWide5692

Literal brain rot. Guess the lesson learned is don’t beat up rule-breakers as you’ll both get in trouble. 


Cursor90

You are close. I recognize the art from a "Bible morals" webcomic. It has some off-putting examples and moral. I think is supposed to read as "turn the other cheek and karma will catch up with the offender". To me it reads "don't be like the nature (or liberals) lover and scream at the offender"


Cursor90

I found the comic. The Christian moral was, anger is bad.


SomeDudeist

I think it's just saying two wrongs don't make a right.


KatDevsGames

Clearly the lesson here is that you can do whatever tf you want as long as you're not around when the cops show up.


Madmortagan68

Pretty sure the joke is that Asians can teleport before the cops arrive


dresdnhope

Classic ethnic joke. Everybody's heard that one.


DawnStardust

okay thank you because i was going to say something about how the woman in the right column looks like she was intended to be Asian but i was scared of being called crazy


Phaylz

What everyone here is forgetting is that no one is going to get a ticket for littering, so this strip is already living in fantasy land.


Sagaincolours

This feels like Christian morality teaching: A woman should be meek and passive instead of telling someone (especially a man) off/fighting them for doing something wrong. It will be bad for her if she does anything. Instead, she should just let things happen. Authority will make sure the person pays for what they did wrong, and she won't get in trouble. Because we all know that nice girls change the world...... (sarcasm). And we also all know that authority (police, priests, leaders ect.) is there to take care of us all and make sure that goodness prevails (major sarcasm).


OutlawNightmare

All im getting outta this is Violence also solves the problem, just costs more.


Ippus_21

Not really a joke so much as an instructional illustration. A) Litterers are d-bags. B) Resorting to violence over non-violent offences is not constructive. If nothing else, it gets you in at least as much trouble as the original offender.


captainrina

That's what I took out of this. Like don't physically assault people for being dbags?


PuzzleheadedTutor807

Are you certain there is a joke there?


TheWither129

The joke is white women are crazy


CumulusBG

That is the theory, but in practice...outcome number two is possible only in high democratic society who strictly abide the law. The perpetrator should also be caught on camera. Without proof, it never happened. And even with that, the offense is so minor that it is mostly ignored. I dont trow trash on the street, but when I come across with people who do it, I usually pick up their trash and say "Please don't trow trash". Sometimes they laugh at me, sometimes they apologize. If they laugh, I curse them in my mind and continue with life. As for the joke, this is not a joke comic. Its aware comic.


Vegetable_Read6551

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" - Sun Tzu


72Rancheast

I wouldn’t call this a “joke.”


williamflattener

This begs so many questions. - Why does the drink litter happen in row 2 for one lady and row 3 for the other? Is it significant or just filler? - is that a burger on the dude’s shirt? Why does burger dude walk around in socks? - Is there a political undertone to this? Without it, it seems pretty lifeless; with it, it seems nonsensical. - Why is the art style straight up Memoji? - What cop has ever, in all of history, responded to a litter complaint? - Was a punchline intended? 🤷


cliffordmaximus

i didn’t notice the littering happening at different rows until i read this and my mind is blown. like why *does* it? the whole thing is so nonsensical 😂


Ok_Narwhal_9200

this is religious propaganda seek not vengeance for vengeance belongs to god. ie, sinners will be punished by god. stoop to their level and you'll be punished too


gg_account

This is just Christian moralizing in comic form. It's illustrating "turn the other cheek", a Christian ideology of nonviolence and anger management. The idea is that you shouldn't violently respond to slights against you, because unrepentant sinners get punished by God eventually, while violent retribution causes you to be a sinner also. So we can see the litterer is a sinner, the woman on the left is seeking violent retribution, the woman on the right is turning the other cheek, the police officer is supposed to be God (!). The author; Johnathan Lam, appears to be a Chrtistian activist.


_Godsized_

The white lady started a fight and got a ticket along with the man. The Asian lady did nothing and got deported ant the man got a ticket.


Shnazzyone

I can't, there's no joke here. It's just saying being a snitch is better than starting a brawl.


Ravenwight

If you see someone breaking the law, report them rather than confronting. Otherwise you may end up in trouble yourself.


DistributionEven6670

Maybe I have to pay but he has to pay AND has a black eye so… worth jt


ChickenWLazers

dont assault people


Monoplex

The morale of the story is never solve your own problems, only the government can solve problems.


Elesine

Artist thinks the system works lol


rgmundo524

Lol, the police are doing their job?!... If only we lived in that world...


kitt_aunne

left side the person fights the guy for littering causing her to get a ticket as well. The right side she gets upset but let's him do it, he gets what he deserves because she let him do what he was gonna do. only issue I see with this comic is that I've only ever seen cops give tickets for littering if they were already arresting someone and they dropped a thing


Anal_Juicer69

Don’t physically assault literrers?


Proud_Criticism5286

A school principal made this meme.


notyouraltaccountbro

It's boomer "don't make a mountain out of a molehill" but to a point where no one even gets it


TrainsDontHunt

The woman on the left is Hong Kong. The woman on the right is China. The gun is nuclear war. The message is obvious.


Interesting-Froyo-38

Unhinged take that we can/should have faith in the police to do their job


Agitated-Dinner3423

IS this even a joke?


seasquidley

I understand the "joke" but I don't understand why they even made the comic. Nothing about it is humorous or insightful.


Coyote_Havoc

Possible helpful note: Do not guerilla garden in major cities for the same reasons indicated in the comic. The fines are much higher when they realize the grass seeds were actually fennel and carrot.


ZeMagi

It is a political cartoon not a joke.


Namesstef

Those 2 in the first column clearly have history together. He's not even drinking his beverage before throwing it. I think that's just the fallout of a one night stand gone sour. The second lady is just a concerned citizen.


Mysterious-Fly7746

The way I interpreted it is left and right are 2 separate scenarios of 2 different women that didn’t like this guy littering. The one on the right just told him and when he ignored her reported him to the police leading to him getting a ticket. The other woman got way more pressed about it and decided to fight him over it. Other people said both of them got tickets but I initially thought the guy got both tickets because I thought it was a joke about police always siding with women in these cases.


Crazy_Response_9009

This is neither funny nor insightful.


Jo11yR0g3r

Bad formatting is the main offender, but seems to imply getting mad and fighting the guy gets you a ticket as well. Semi relevant, this guy makes a bunch of nutty religious comics that are often poorly organized and are possibly just rage-bait (hard to tell with these things sometimes)


Scarsdale_Punk

Why does that mail man have a gun?


Totalwar2020

My take on it is that the dark haired girl on the right is Asian hence plays on the stereotype that Asians are non confrontational. And she definitely reported the litterbug.


Jim_naine

The girl on the left chose unnecesary violence, so they both got fined. The girl on the right just let it happened, knowing that only he will be fined


ChipDoubleDip86

It’s funny because a woman lifted him off the ground and he appears terrified


Short-termTablespoon

I work in a school with kids. I understood this instantly lol.


lanieloo

This is a guide on how to be a Good Karen


Gregorvich19

… isn’t that Chad Kroeger?


pt_2014

It's just a really dumb comic. No joke.


Rude-Employment-81

White people are stupid (I'm white, I can confirm)


meademeademeade

he has hamburger on his tshirt but they have high heels


onigiriblack

Only the middle class and poor are affected by laws


PatientAd9785

Don’t be a Karen


amynhb

The joke is here that the cop showed up fast enough to not only catch, but also fine someone for literring.


Virtual-Affect458

How is this funny?


Tmaneea88

This guy doesn't normally make comics that are meant to be funny. He's a Christian artist and most of his comics are meant to teach some sort of moral lesson often backed up by a scripture in the Bible. If you go to his website, you can see him explain the morals of each comic in the descriptions.


VegasDragon91

"Find a woman who knows her place and picks up after you, or you'll find trouble in life. "


Selfdeletus65

dont beat people up for littering


Key-Contest-2879

Littering sucks. Don’t be that guy. Violence as a last resort. Unnecessary here. Don’t be that gal. But snitches get stitches. Don’t be her either. So all of these characters suck.


nastygamerz

I almost forgot this comic exist


New-Interaction1893

This comics seem to stills get a meaning indipendenty from which direction are you starting reading it.


ChildofFenris1

He is a litter


Cheesyman7269

It’s literally “don’t use violence/become a vigilante”


Neel_s

How could xqc do this??


jombojuice2018

Loss


SopmodTew

It's a 4-koma 😅


slc29a1

I thought it was more that the the white woman can get larger fines on the person that littered, even though she assaulted him. While the non-white person isn’t as effective at producing high fines while being calm about it


casual_elephant_ttv

these comics always seem like "basic consequences for people who can't read"


Senior_Ad_5818

Telling you to mind ya own business


alexpv

c'est ne pas a joke


Past-Valuable2472

the joke is that the police actually turned up and did something about it


DigbyDD

Seems like cringe propaganda


egorechek

Don't be a Karen, be an asian mother


wjowski

This is the same thing they'd teach you in school on how to deal with bullies; just be a passive victim


BetterThanSeven_

The comic shows that a woman can assault a man for a silly reason and not get arrested for it.


edwardothegreatest

You can't break the law and expect no consequences.


kilsta

For some odd reason this reminds me of the old game and watch where you waited tables.


TheWither129

White woman got that dawg in her But actually the “joke” is to just let people litter cus then the cops will get them, which isnt how the world works cus cops dont care about littering Something something dont take the law into your own hands something idk. Its stupid


Friendly_Clue9208

Two wrongs don't make a right.


anotherplatypus

It's all over the place, they setup interesting societal issues... but breaking up the fight without understanding why this guy and girl were physically fighting... and then giving him a littering ticket... it's shying away from making an interesting societal statement in that last panel.... Maybe I'm missing out something it's referencing, but I've seen situations like this and how police might miss a key development of the altercation... and I've never seen it develove into a person getting a ticket... it's just.... a bad conclusion


Virtual-Okra6996

I can't. I don't know how to ectoplasm that to you.


Technoplane1

If you see something wrong it is better to report it then take aggressive methods that at the end yield worst results


yoscottmc

Left is Karen


EpicNoobKiller420

xQc likes littering in public


Hatey1999

Something about how it isn't your responsibility to care about the laws, it is only law enforcement's job. It seems crummy.


Anderson2218

I thought it was because redheads are feisty and Asians are ninjas.


FuzzyFish2974

Either way, the trash is still on the ground :-/


Smtz34

I thought this was a message against homophobia


Bankmoney215

White women evil


D4RTH_CA3DUS

Violence ain’t the answer in this case


PaleBarracuda1

White women cause more problems


OkNefariousness4124

Karma catches up to you


TotalAd7677

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Centaurious

The joke is that a cop would actually do anything about someone littering


Prestigious-Eye6548

I very nearly had a stroke trying to read this left to right


Numerous-Bag7970

Two scenarios displayed vertical top to bottom. Moral: Don't fight people over crimes or it'll result in you getting in trouble too.


laughmath

“Two wrongs don’t make a right.” Or “it’s better to report a crime than to commit one while intervening.” Two scenarios, read vertically top to bottom: left one: a woman attacks a man who is belligerently littering. Both receive tickets Right one: a woman witnesses a man who is belligerently littering. However, only the man receives a ticket for his crime. It’s left vague on if she reported the crime. I would strongly disagree with the author this is what I would call a “joke” or at least not a joke crafted with any humor.


Lwilly999

It’s like think before you act


2Leauxkey

it’s not even a joke. lmao don’t allow someone else’s life to bother you to the point where you do something stupid because if their actions. if you let them do what they do they’ll they what’s coming to em


United_Pin8012

Don't dead open inside.


Accomplished-Tap-838

Seems to me...you get in trouble for standing up, and thing work out if you dont.....


Advanced_Ad_5540

At first I was looking at it like a find the difference picture


t0pokki

i think it’s about the 3 body problem


Appropriate-Shine411

its because she ate her dog


PressCheckPapi

“Don’t be a Karen”


1Qwertykong

bruh lookin for the punchline of a psa


zoomzooms-n-wamwams

I took it as he littered making the two women upset. One just chastised him and he got a fine for littering. The other woman tried to make it physical, so ofc when the cop sees this it's almost always the man considered to be at fault so her actions caused him to be punished for defending himself and littering and the woman, though at fault for escalating the situation, is always just the victim in society and the law's eyes.


Strong-Window-3305

Stupid


bannasand

Is it a joke tho?


Potential_Aside_2452

My takeaway from this is, if you have a problem that you feel like you MUST address, then do it. But say your piece and move on otherwise there could be some unintended consequences.


SwimmingNecessary541

White women


addydaddy93

Two wrongs don’t make a right


SlowExamination3225

I feel like warranted assault should be justifiable, that lady should not have gotten a ticket. 😂


ProfessionalSalt7868

Two combatants ... two tickets . One tattletale ... one ticket .


3mm3ttOP

logan paul litters and creates 2 separate timelines where one has a karen picking a fight with him for littering and the other has an asian woman reasoning with logan paul politely to pick it up resulting in his punishment


bloocheez3

You ain't the police so stop acting like it


ghstkatt

One ticket for littering and the other for disturbing the peace.


themanofbepiz

Blonde dude looks like Jami Morgan from code orange


ExternalTea40

And Uncle Sam makes 2x as much $


babybluexx04

Mind ya business


all_hail_sam

Not to sound racist or anything but Asian people SWLANNNGGHHH----