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    Associate: a mental connection between ideas or things.

    “the word bureaucracy has unpleasant associations”

    the action of making a mental connection.

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      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…

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          And the comment is clearly didn’t mean that definition

          Yep, definitely dealing with a rational, intelligent human here. No need to engage…

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        I don’t know what to tell you mate. You came off to me as if trying to tell me I didn’t use the word “associate” correctly, and I was trying to show you that I, in fact, did. I got nothing else for ya.