Interpret this cartoon

[cthulu2016]

[Whisp]

1. it's the old year giving way for the new year.

guess the new year will be more pepper spray

[PETRUS]

2. It means...

...you better watch your step, toe the line, and get with the program cthulu!

[cthulu2016]

3. Hell, EVERYTHING means that!

Or so I've been told.

[PETRUS]

11. Yeah, well.

Expect a few non-lethal rounds fired in your direction now and then just as a reminder.

[Bucky]

4. It's a hopeful message about young people sharing their vegetables.

No, wait... maybe pepper is a fruit.

[getdown]

18. DUZY

LOL

[BadgerKid]

5. 2011 poses no threat to 2012s

since time just flows. Nevertheless, 2012 decides to offend and injure. See

[Motown_Johnny]

6. any reference to that cop with the pepper spray can be a cartoon

it doesn't need to mean anything

[Bucky]

20. It's the pancake-on-a-bunny's-head of political repression

"I don't understand what you're protesting about, so I'll just pepper spray you in the face."

It's very post-post-modern like that.

[patrice]

7. It means, due to un-self-critical habit, the unfair use of advantage is also one characteristic of

that which *SELF*-proclaims itself "New".

[ErikJ]

8. The 1% have won?

The baby is wearing a top-hat and represents the 1% spraying the OWS which is by now "old".

[patrice]

12. Youth is more chacteristic of OWS than age is, ergo, baby could just as well be OWS & 2011 is

anything else.

[cthulu2016]

13. See what I mean? It's a rorshach

[customerserviceguy]

15. Often a New Year's baby is depicted wearing a top hat

I still don't get the cartoon.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. take that 2011, theres a new kid in town. he's bold and he's brash and he don't give a damn.

[patrice]

10. It means that hypocrisy is THE law of the land.

[Brickbat]

14. It's a crap cartoon.

That about sums it up.

[librechik]

16. It's commenting on the ubiquity of the pepper spraying cop image to say something about 2012

I think there's going to be more pepper spray this year.

[arely staircase]

17. it means that modes of consciousness are unified synthetically nt

[PuffedMica]

19. It is a tribute to Christopher Hitchens with a contrarian view on the new year

[getdown]

21. as you sow, so shall ye reap