Locke and Demosthenes

by Mike

Image Text: Dear Peter Wiggin: This letter is to inform you that you have received enough upvotes on your reddit comments to become president of the world.  Please be at the UN tomorrow at 8:00 sharp.

This comic references the Orson Scott Card novel Ender's Game.  [SPOILER] In it, Ender's higher-than-average intelligence siblings, Valentine Wiggin and Peter Wiggin decide to make a move for power on earth by posting contrasting opinions of the Formic War on their version of the internet.  They used the pseudonyms Locke and Demosthenes respectively and eventually coerced the trust of the entire planet by playing their posts against each other.  This lead to Peter gaining control of the free world.

[EXTRA SPOILER] Peter is a borderline sociopath and kills that squirrel.