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RIGHT. People complaining about these bizarre violent videos but they'll sit their kids in front of mind control all day.
by fapjacks 9y ago
RIGHT. People complaining about these bizarre violent videos but they'll sit their kids in front of mind control all day.
- blattimwind 9y ago"I cannot be bothered to look after my offspring therefore I will downvote whomever doubts that education-by-internet for two year olds is appropiate"
- ascorbic 9y agoI'll go out on a limb and guess you don't have kids, right?
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- ceejayoz 9y agoIt's more "I haven't been able to do laundry/dishes in days and 30 minutes of Sesame Street videos won't hurt".
- drdeca 9y agoI don't remember seeing "whomever" before, so I hope you don't mind me trying to understand where it is used. I see that it is used for the object of a verb, and whoever for the subject of a verb, but I am a bit confused here, because here it is the object of "downvote", but the subject of "doubts", so I am confused. In the sentence "I will look at whomever Bob greets.", I think I understand why it is "whomever", and in the sentence "Whoever enters the room next, they will encounter a surprise.", I think I understand why it is "whoever" and not "whomever", but in the case of your sentence, I don't know what the rule is. Could you (or anyone else) please explain it to me?
- randallsquared 9y agoIt's an interesting corner case. I believe it's "I will look at whomever Bob greets." (as you note) and "I will look at whoever greets Bob." The object of the preposition is the phrase "whoever greets Bob," so subject-to-a-verb wins.
- drdeca 9y agoThank you!
- twentythree 9y agoAccording to [0], it seems that "whoever" would be correct here. > Rule 1. The presence of whoever or whomever indicates a dependent clause. Use whoever or whomever to agree with the verb in that dependent clause, regardless of the rest of the sentence. > Examples: > Give it to whoever/whomever asks for it first. > He asks for it first. Therefore, whoever is correct. [0]: http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/whoever.asp http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/whoever.asp
- emodendroket 9y agoTry substituting him for whom and he for who. That'll see you through most of the time.
- Knufen 9y agoDon't know why you got downvoted, have an upvote
- squeaky-clean 9y agoProbably because the people complaining are not the same ones who are leaving their kids unattended with these videos. This thread is full of parents saying that they banned youtube for their child because these algorithmic videos have began to fill all youtube searches for kids. I think it's more of a "why did bots and inattentive parents fuck it up for the rest of us."
- alasdair_ 9y ago>I think it's more of a "why did bots and inattentive parents fuck it up for the rest of us." The main complaint is that Youtube Kids (an explicitly kid-friendly subset of youtube, with its own app and parental controls) is being targeted in this way. I assume "the rest of us" are not generally using this version of youtube.
- derefr 9y ago"The rest of us" parents, not "the rest of us" people.
- jacobush 9y agoBecause mother googly-eyed wouldn’t have it another way.
- anigbrowl 9y agoEnough with the victim blaming. I think this is a serious problem and I don't have any children to leave unattended.
- bigbugbag 9y agoI'm pretty convinced the victim here is the children and the perpertrators are the parents. Think about it: scientific consensus is pretty clear that the content makes no difference there should be no exposure to any kind of screen for kids under 6, then maybe a tiny bit until 10-12.