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[–] cabbage@piefed.social 35 points 4 months ago (3 children)

So instead of asking how they can collaborate to get shit done in the common interest and what to reform first, the first thing sign boy asks is "who's next".

I'm split between two different thoughts in hat man's head - it's either "you are" or "what the fuck are you on about".

Having an enemy is powerful stuff. Try not to get addicted to it.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 31 points 4 months ago

That’s because the comic is originally for gay republicans.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Subtext: How does it fucking work?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 7 points 4 months ago

I mean, there are plenty of people you need to get rid of before you can realistically change anything. Also anarchists tend to not prefer reform.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

does it mean blue hat guy was a robot who had frozen or something

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It means that the guy in the blue hat thinks that "we" should go after the guy with the placard next

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also the placard is the anarchist flag, in case anyone might not be aware.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anarcho-communism / syndicalism to be exact. There's more anarchist flags

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 months ago

I think I'd be disappointed if there were a single, rigorously-defined flag for anarchism

[–] socsa@piefed.social -2 points 4 months ago

I think it means he's a Marxist who believes the next step is to use the state to protect the revolution against anarchist scum?

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 4 months ago

Adam Ellis' work, for those unfamiliar with the source material.

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 11 points 4 months ago

r/yourjokebutanarchy

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In only one of the three instances, yes, but just use who. It's acceptable and unpretentious.

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

fyi: “whom" is the correct word to use in two of the three instances.

here’s a tip: if the answer to the question is him, her, or them (as opposed to he, she, or they), then whom is to be used in the question.

there’s nothing pretentious about correctness. it’s about the nominative case vs the accusative case.

[–] Celediel@slrpnk.net 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Language is descriptive, not prescriptive. The "correct" way to speak is the way that is understood.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Spent my youth being whipped in school over correctness. Picked up my first Stephen King book, Pet Sematary, at 14 and was like, "The hell?! He's not following the rules but this prose rocks out!"

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, it is absolutely pretentious. The correction isn't about clarity, but the superiority of someone who "knows better" than others, those dummies.

Also, no, it's one. The answer to "Who is next?" is not "Me is next" or "Him is next" but "I am next" or "He is next". This is related to something called a predicate nominative. Read up at https://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/predicate_nominative.htm

So if you're going to be pretentious about grammar, you'd best bring your A game so you don't end up hoisting yourself with your own petard. Or just act like a grammar anarchist and not a grammar authoritarian.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

you'd best bring your A game

This is the funniest grammar nazi post I have read in my life. Sitting here down with COIVD, can't breathe for shit, giggling my ass off. Get 'em!

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the question is not “who is next?”, but it’s “who(m) are we going after next?”

the “who(m)” is not the subject of the sentence here. it’s the object. the subject is the “we”. so “whom” applies here.

if the question were indeed “who is next?” (as you have misread it), then your point would be valid. but your entire argument stems from an incorrect premise.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No, I didn't misread it. It's literally in the comic right up there. There's one "Who are we going after next." That's the one that whom is correct for. Then there's "Who's next?" which whom is incorrect for. Who is. Grammar doesn't care about the sentence before. Did you even read the link about predicate nominatives? It explains why. Go read it.

[–] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Now do the ablative and dative.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

It would be pretentious in this context. If you're writing a novel or article or even a lemmy post, it's totally fine.