Associate: to join as a partner, friend, or companion; They were closely associated with each other during the war.
See? I can paste definitions too! I was merely pointing out that that specific word choice could lead the reader to infer collaboration or partnership. The comic is clearly not endorsing that worldview…
Associate: a mental connection between ideas or things.
“the word bureaucracy has unpleasant associations”
the action of making a mental connection.
See? I can paste definitions too! I was merely pointing out that that specific word choice could lead the reader to infer collaboration or partnership. The comic is clearly not endorsing that worldview…