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The free market of confusion (jlai.lu)

submitted 2 days ago by Bad@jlai.lu to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[A television shows people starving with the title "NEWS: FAMINE DEVASTATES A GLOBAL SOUTH COUNTRY" and the subtitle "Brought to you by AgriCorp™"]

[orange] That's communism That's why we hate communism so much

[green] But the trade sanctions come from capita…

[A television shows a rocket launch with the title "NEWS: ROCKET LAUNCHED, HUMANS ARE IN SPACE" and the subtitle "Brought to you by tax credits for billionaires"]

[orange] That's capitalism That's why we love capitalism so much

[green] But modern rocketry was pioneered by the soviet…

[A television shows police in a city and a graffiti with the title "14 MILLION CRIMINAL OFFENSES REPORTED IN THE US IN 2024" and the subtitle "This fearmongering is brought to you by Liberty Mutual Justice™"]

[orange] That's anarchism That's why we hate anarchism so much

[green] But the USA is quite literally a capitalis…

[A television shows kids starving in a school cafeteria with the title "SAD FACTS: 1 IN 5 KIDS IN THE USA FACE FOOD INSECURITY (2025)" and the subtitle "SnackCorp™ was here"]

[orange] That's not capitalism It's crony oligarchic neoliberalism

[green] But that's quite literally…

[A television shows a reporter reporting on the end of the world with the title "BREAKING NEWS: MASS COLLAPSE OF SOCIETY AS CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSED BY BILLIONAIRES LEADS TO GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC FAILURE" and the subtitle "PetroCorp™ approves"]

[orange] I knew it! I knew communism would be the end of us all!

[green has no words, is just blasé]

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[–] Bad@jlai.lu 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

first functioning rocket weapon

Chinese warfare had included rockets for centuries.

Americans and soviets had militarized rockets before WW2 (for ex. Katyusha on Wikipedia).

first manmade object in space

Define being in space.

The V2 barely grazed the edge of space, it didn't have the power to actually escape the Earth's gravitational péll.

Sputnik is the first object to actually be in space.

The Nazis …

You should be wary that nazi glazing has effects. Thanks to their lasting propaganda, people really believe they were a high tech empire that surpassed the rest of the world in every domain, triumph of the will style. Still to this day it helps fascism's image as the "clean high tech" way that surpasses the rest in the mind of too many people. Don't contribute to that for a simple gotcha. Even if you're right, it's not worth it.