Separatist Peoples wrote:Bananaistan wrote:
"You wouldn't actually find any straw in a hay field. You'd want the corn field for that. Unless you were actually looking for the literal straw man, in which case I'd direct you to the vegetable fields.
"We'd question the need for the ridiculously long preamble here. And the operative clause could be significantly shortened too."
"Do I look like a farmer to you? Jeez, everybody is a critic..."
"No, you look like an agent of a left-wing hit-squad. We highly encourage you to try farming for a year or two. We hear it tends to increase civic virtue and adherence to republican values, but being the so-called liberal elite ourselves, we hypocritically have no experience therewith."
Iulia paused for a moment. "As for the resolution at hand, we are opposed in the strongest terms possible. While we agree that capital punishment ought not be lightly imposed, it is a necessary component of a just system of punishment and have nothing more to add beyond what others have already said on that topic."