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…
Ugh, I did not need my favourite web comic being associated with Limbaugh.
“Associated with”? That’s definitely incorrect. Maybe"referencing", “calling out” or even “denouncing”…
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…