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.
That’s because the comic is originally for gay republicans.
Subtext: How does it fucking work?
I’m assuming the blue hat denotes a representative of the US Democratic Party
Democrats are right wing, but want to maintain pretense and decorum as they mass murder the poor. They don’t dislike Trump for what he does, but because he’s boorish about it. If and When the Dems return to power, they will go right back to diverting social program money to the police, breaking strikes, and keeping close tabs on white supremacist militias but doing nothing about them. They will do nothing to restore any rights you lost under Trump, but if a popular movement successfully gains you any rights, Dems will take all the credit. In the war against the working class, if the US Republicans are like the bombers and marines, the US Democrats are like the embedded fifth column and propaganda wing.
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.
does it mean blue hat guy was a robot who had frozen or something
It means that the guy in the blue hat thinks that “we” should go after the guy with the placard next
Also the placard is the anarchist flag, in case anyone might not be aware.
Anarcho-communism / syndicalism to be exact. There’s more anarchist flags
I think I’d be disappointed if there were a single, rigorously-defined flag for anarchism
I think the implication is that the leftist is next
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?
Adam Ellis’ work, for those unfamiliar with the source material.
r/yourjokebutanarchy
*whom
“Whom’s next?”
*whom’st“xt?
In only one of the three instances, yes, but just use who. It’s acceptable and unpretentious.
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.
Language is descriptive, not prescriptive. The “correct” way to speak is the way that is understood.
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!”
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.
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!
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.
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.
It would be pretentious in this context. If you’re writing a novel or article or even a lemmy post, it’s totally fine.
Now do the ablative and dative.
i kind of don’t like how this edit is conflating queer identity with political affiliation. The original strip depicts two transphobes, one side queer (the “LGB” alliance, ugh) and the other one a reactionary maga type. Yes it’s true that liberals/reactionaries will betray leftists, but that’s not exactly the same thing as persecution of queer people and it does make me uncomfortable to see this conflation.
I mean yes the original was that, but this is a remix. It doesn’t conflate these.
This edit has nothing queer about it.
yeah that’s why I don’t feel good about it, because it’s taking a comic about queer persecution, removing the queer elements, and then replacing the same argument except with political identity. That’s not something I’m comfortable with
as a queer person, I believe you’re thinking about this way too much.
Recycling memes is pretty damn common. There are even meme-o-matic sites to generat’em for you.
