Given how inaccurate that metaphor is, I can say with near certainty that has nothing to do with this comic.

That’s pretty simple, if there is any matter they could both interact with in the way, it would be converted to energy and either expelled to the side or shunted to another dimension.

They are synonyms for that usage. The immovable object is neither stopping nor resisting the force.

Actually, the new theory is that the hawking radiation exfiltrates information from inside the black hole via quantum entanglement. Of course, it hasn’t been tested yet for obvious reasons.

The problem is the concentration of power. We need enough different groups in power that they’re too busy undermining each other to consolidate.

Yeah, that was always a bad argument. The truth is it will always fail in the transitional step where the state owns everything. People in power do not want to give up that power, so it inevitably leads to dictatorship followed by eventual collapse.