• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    I gave this comic the benefit of the doubt so far. Clumsy, often missing its own joke, but ok. Everyone starts out small.

    But now we are in the territory of fascist propaganda and suddenly it’s no joking matter anymore.

    I will not be reading this comic anymore.

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    “Ruler of the Universe” is inherently impossible, regardless of political system, unless we’ve vastly misunderstood something about physics.

    I mean, forget 320 million years. The observable universe is 93 billion light years in diameter, but the universe is only 14 billion years old. Just to communicate one way with the observable universe would take 46 billion years, much older than the age of the universe. But in the meantime, the universe keeps expanding.

    If there is no way to communicate even a single law to the universe, then it is impossible to have any system of government spanning the entire universe.

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    Not sure where you were going with this one but democracy is and always will be the shit

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    There are faster localized versions of democracy, like anarcho syndicalist collectvisation.

    Also, anarchism in general isn’t always going to result in democracy.

    First stage communism is often described as a Dictatorship of the Proletariat, which would be a democracy for workers but not other people.

    Project CyberSyn in Chile was designed to distribute resources automatically.

    What I’m saying is there are other modes of organisation.

    So clearly a comic that’s only vaguely anti-democracy (in that a democracy as large as the universe would be slow) isn’t automatically advocating Fascism (a specific type of malady.

    I’ve never noticed this comic being political, it tends to be childish and fun… So I guess I just don’t agree with the automatic assumptions others are making on this one.

    The universe… It’s big… It would be slow… So the hero stops the bad guy… With lasers. It’s on par with most American superhero movies.