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If we imprisoned people for playing their music on speakerphone in public there would be a lot fewer murders


No, there wouldn’t be.


You may want to go see the doctor about your humor bone. It seems to have been amputated.


It wasn't a funny joke given the context.


It’s definitely funny along the lines of “A Modest Proposal” from Swift. If you can’t detect sarcasm that’s on you, not the author, especially for something so obviously sarcastic to drive the point home about the ridiculousness of the theory that jailing homeless people will somehow produce less violence in the broader community by making a similar comparison correlating murder and people playing music loudly in public which is a minor annoyance at worst.




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