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by kstrauser 1060 days ago
(Read the above as if it was Tom Swift saying we should eat babies.)

Edit: John.

2 comments

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Can you express it more clearly?
The reply about how to end crime was sarcastically mocking the original comment, similarly to the way "A Modest Proposal" mocked other helpful suggestions of its time.
Makes sense, thank you!

I'll leave my way-too-literal interpretation in case someone gets a kick out of it.

It’s satire of the post it was responding to.
Oh, good grief. I even googled that right before I wrote it, and my fingers still refused to go along with the right answer.