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[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

the cartoon implies that anyone who says violence isn't the answer is lying/hypocritical.

No.. it doesn't. By its adversarial nature, it heavily implies the answers "no" to the first two questions.

Like, your main criticism is that the comic doesn't make any sense if the answer to either question was yes, but that's the definitive reason I wouldn't read it that way.

A rhetorical question that you know (or are insisting you "know") your opponent disagrees with is a very common language trick.