• Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    The comic is depicting an ICE agent who has killed a child’s parents and is trying to justify it to the child.

    This occurred either literally through a no-knock raid or perhaps metaphorically through the systemic abuses of the detainment system which through neglect has killed many people.

    It is pointing out that willingly becoming an active cog in that machine is in and out itself an act of evil despite the desperate reasons the government has manufactured to force some of its citizens into it.

    Maybe you knew this in which case we disagree but I think there’s a non-zero chance someone could misinterpret it as being about soldiers and warfare so I figured it was worth the explanation.

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          13 hours ago

          The biggest context clue for you should be the US army uniform and 3rd Infantry Division patch on the helmet. This is probably commentary on two decades of deployments in Afghanistan.

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            Ah that makes sense, I guess they’re just bringing home they’ve been exporting to the globe for centuries.