frosty99c

Right. It's basically Jesus (or whoever the story teller is from the other perspective) saying, "I know you all are racist. Stop it. Anyone can be a good person. Do better."

A guess a slightly less charitable interpretation could be: 'even this evil person can do good once in a while, why aren't you?' but aligning with a lot of the other parables I feel like it's more than likely to be the first one.

That is kind of the point or the parable, right? But the parable wasn't 'othering' them, it was showing how their background/race/religion/heritage isn't what made them 'good' or 'bad,' it's their actions that matter.

Society at the time already encouraged people to think of Samaritans as the other and to look down on them. The parable tells of an injured, vulnerable traveler in a time of need. Many Jews, members of high society, etc. (people normally thought of as 'good) walk by and ignore the man. A Samaritan passes by and offers aid. Of all the people who walked by, only the Samaritan is worthy of heaven. The moral is that anyone can be a good person by helping others..the kingdom of heaven is open to all, not just the Jews, and that your actions/the way you live your life is more important than what you call yourself, what tribe you belong to, who your parents are.

It's one of the most basic messages in the Bible. It is clearly anti-racist. It promotes helping others above all else. And somehow modern Christians seem to miss the point completely.

And the "RIP Grantland" makes me think this is Bill Simmons related, maybe even published by Grantland itself (American sports/pop culture website started by Simmons when he worked for ESPN).

Edit: I've just seen the credit at the bottom of the poster. Guess it's not related, just made by a fan I guess.

I love that extension

You should still be able to navigate to those posts by changing the link to old.reddit.com. But I assume that will go away at some point too.

https://archive.org/details/huasipungovillag00icaz

The rich guy comes in, forces the poor locals to build the road, and then keeps the profits from all of the new labor he is able to exploit.

I had to look it up. They didn't even go viral for something good. They went viral for microwaving slop and calling it a tuna melt. Even in their fantasies of good marketing they're getting laughed at.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/politics/mark-warner-tuna-melt/index.html

It's insane. And any attempt to argue against it is shut down immediately. This post (https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/?v=3) is one of the most digestible things I've seen for the scale at which those people hoard wealth. It's so easy to follow and understand how the world could be better if those people didn't exist. But anyone I try talking to says "oh I'm not going to read all that" or "scrolling through that will take too long" ...which is exactly the fucking point. And this is from 4 years ago! Their wealth has only increased while our buying power has gone down.

At step 3. Where the rich person forces conditions onto you and takes most of your production. That is immoral. Especially if he has the resources for both to survive with less effort just by not being selfish

Agreed. I usually wear On. I know a ton of people love Hoka (I think they're ugly). But my MIL has really bad hip/knee/ankle issues and she has to be on her feet for work all day. Hoka was a life saver when she found them

Thick as a Brick

Exact same reason as OP. It's annoying to have something pop up on my phone that I didn't ask for. I don't like floating overlay buttons.