The context is still important, though, because it’s important to remember that no matter how true something might be, it’s important to look at the intent behind the messaging and who is saying it lest you fall down a rabbit hole of trusting a group with malicious motivations. Like if somebody posted a comic about the Civil War being about states’ rights as commentary on the overreach of Republican federal government (especially right now), they’d be technically correct, but states’ rights to do what? To use the slave labor that their economies depended on. That’s a very different scenario from states fighting the federal government today to ensure that women still have access to healthcare. Plus, knowing the context of this comic adds the layer of irony that, regardless of their original motivations as a country politically opposed to the US, they ended up being right in more ways than they probably could’ve imagined at the time. A broken clock is still right twice a day, etc.

Look at the Washington Post. A perfect example of the context behind why this comic was created in reverse as well as a perfect example of why the comic is so relevant. A news organization that attempted to be as unbiased as they could and did a pretty good job of it, but has been bought by Jeff Bezos. I would trust their older work to be fairly unbiased and truthful, but I’d take everything they put out today with a critical lense looking for the corporate propaganda aspect.