[description]@@RANDOMNAME1@@, your Minister of Health, became a target of criticism when @@HE1@@ responded to an opposition politician's colorful insults by saying "Maybe you should consider rinsing your dirty mouth with bleach. It might even help you get rid of that bad breath." But unfortunately some citizens took this 'advice' literally. Over night, thousands of people were hospitalized because they had accidentally swallowed bleach while gargling.
[validity]not autocratic, low intelligence
1. [option]"Look, it is not my problem that some people in this country are not the sharpest knives in the drawer," snorts @@RANDOMNAME1@@, throwing @@HIS1@@ arms up in exasperation. "Sarcasm, people! It shouldn't be so hard to understand. Even my 5-year-old niece gets the joke. Maybe it is time you invested some money in education so people could learn about rhetorical devices like sarcasm in their literature classes. Geez."
[effect]@@DEMONYMPLURAL@@ are getting armed and ready for a battle of wits
2. [option]"Nonsense, people holding public office need to have full accountability over their statements," says @@RANDOMNAME@@, a patient recently discharged from a local hospital after a gastric lavage, popping a mint-flavored bubble gum in your face. "If the Health Minister @@HIM1@@self comes up and says 'use bleach for bad breath', who am I to doubt @@HIS1@@ authority? I think we need to ban sarcasm and all forms of linguistic ambiguity from political discourse and prosecute this minister for jeopardizing our lives!"
[effect]@@DEMONYMPLURAL@@ find their politicians more boring than foreigners
3. [option]"Banning sarcasm? No way! This actually gives me a great idea!" exclaims @@RANDOMNAME@@, your Minister of Alternative Solutions, rubbing @@HIS@@ hands excitedly. "If anything, we should encourage our party members to use as much equivocation in their speeches as possible, so they have plausible deniability if a statement of theirs falls flat. Did you make an unfortunate remark about Bigtopians? Just say it was sarcasm, problem solved!"
[effect]authors of law proposals that get voted down claim that it had all been sarcasm anyway