[cgriswald]

There’s an uncanny sameness to the point you’re making and the cartoon even without the deletion modification. Ultimately your point is about missing context (albeit through deletion). Here the missing context is when the cartoon was published. (Google tells me 2011, but there isn’t anything on the page that I can see that says so and certainly nothing in the cartoon itself.) Although the joke still works, I feel there is a subtle difference reading it in 2021 compared to if I had read it in 2011 (which I probably did).