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[DRAFT #1b] Getting Help Request

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[DRAFT #1b] Getting Help Request

Postby Tinhampton » Sat Aug 07, 2021 2:05 pm

Another sloppy issue draft by Tinhampton!

IRL 1: In 2018, "when Laura Nuttall was 18, she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer... [Laura's] family decided to start a bucket list of things to do in 2019. "I took a gap year - a kind of an enforced gap year - and I did wonderful things," Laura says. She travelled - going on safari in South Africa and taking trips to Amsterdam and New York. She monster trucks, drove buses, spent a day with the police, went to football matches, watched beans being made in the Heinz factory and went fishing with Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse. She even got to meet Michelle Obama. "I was kind of doing those just to make a statement that my life would not be limited by having cancer. I'm really glad that we managed to get out and do all the crazy stuff that we did."

IRL 2, about nine months later: "Thousands of comedy fans gave Peter Kay a standing ovation as he made his live return after several years away, with two quickly sold-out charity shows at the Manchester Apollo on Saturday. "I've never in my life had a standing ovation when I came on," he joked. "I'm going to go away for four more years." The Bolton comic was taking part in two Q&A sessions, called Doing it for Laura, at the 3,500 capacity venue. It was to raise money for 20-year-old Laura Nuttall's brain cancer treatment."
[title]Getting Help Request
[desc]@@RANDOMNAME_1@@, a teenager who has a rare terminal cancer, has won hearts and attention across the world - including in @@NAME@@ and @@HIS_1@@ home country of Marche Blanche - after ticking off every item on @@HIS_1@@ bucket list except one: meeting you. Many have suggested that @@HE_1@@ would have completed it by now if not for the fact that foreigners are banned from entering @@NAME@@ under any circumstances, even on compassionate grounds.
[validity]must have No Immigration

[option]"I have always believed that charity begins at home," thunders @@RANDOMNAME_2@@, your Minister for Active Philanthropy. "Between our relations with the Marche Blanchians possibly being stronger than your door and @@NAME@@ being possibly world-renowned for possibly looking after the worst-off in society, I possib... definitely see no reason why we should not let this young @@MAN_1@@ into our country, even if only fleetingly. If the visit becomes popular enough, we could possibly continue to grant compassionate exemptions to our immigration ban on a case-by-case basis. Possibly."
[effect]the queues in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ hospitals have never been more diverse
[flagchange]No Immigration abolished, I guess?

[option]"I have always believed that charity begins at home," responds @@RANDOMNAME_3@@, your Minister for Border Security. "No way are we going to care for thousands of foreigners who want to @@NAME@@, all with similarly suspect backstories, while also providing high-quality services for fully-blooded @@DEMONYMPLURAL@@ like me! I'm certain that just sending @@RANDOMFIRSTNAME_1@@ a short video message wishing @@HIM_1@@ well is going to make @@HIM_1@@ just as happy while also respecting our strong immigration laws, even if it isn't quite what @@HE_1@@ was expecting."
[effect]@@LEADER@@'s PR department is the biggest employer in the country

[option]"I have always believed that charity begins at home," states @@RANDOMNAME_4@@, your Sub-Undersecretary for Civil Liberties. "If we allow anybody - and I mean anybody - to enter @@NAME@@ for any reason, we will not only benefit from more government revenue from more workers, but also avoid having to waste it on unnecessary border control schemes. Of course, we might need to spend our money on supporting non-violent crisis response teams instead, but it's for a good cause, no?"
[effect]everybody has a second job as a police officer
[flagchange]No Immigration abolished
Last edited by Tinhampton on Sat Aug 07, 2021 6:31 pm, edited 4 times in total.
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Postby SherpDaWerp » Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:54 pm

I don't think no immigration necessarily means wholly-walled-off-no-tourism, but that's not our concern.

Great draft, though. Couple points: they could win hearts "around the world", more than just their home country, to make it more plausible that people in @@name@@ have heard of the whole thing, and the end of option 2 would flow better if you switched the sentence fragments around, i.e. "make @@him@@ happy, while respecting immigration, even if not the expectation".

Finally, I spotted a typo: it should be Philanthropy.
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Postby Tinhampton » Sat Aug 07, 2021 6:23 pm

SherpDaWerp wrote:I don't think no immigration necessarily means wholly-walled-off-no-tourism, but that's not our concern.

Great draft, though.

Thanks lol

SherpDaWerp wrote:Couple points: they could win hearts "around the world", more than just their home country, to make it more plausible that people in @@name@@ have heard of the whole thing, and the end of option 2 would flow better if you switched the sentence fragments around, i.e. "make @@him@@ happy, while respecting immigration, even if not the expectation".

Description has been beefed up accordingly. Option 2 has also been switcherooed accordingly :P

SherpDaWerp wrote:Finally, I spotted a typo: it should be Philanthropy.

Done.
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Postby Australian rePublic » Tue Aug 10, 2021 5:04 am

Why can't leader just travel to the foreign hospital and be done with it?
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Postby Tinhampton » Tue Aug 10, 2021 9:04 am

Issues are not supposed to have perfect choices, only good ones :P
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Postby Tinhampton » Wed Aug 18, 2021 1:27 am

7.5-day bump. Is Aussie in the right (above) or am I? :P
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Postby Merconitonitopia » Wed Aug 18, 2021 9:07 pm

Tinhampton wrote:foreigners are banned from entering @@NAME@@ under any circumstances

Why would that be the case?


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