h a l f b a k e r y"It would work, if you can find alternatives to each of the steps involved in this process."
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Applicants for residence visas and/or citizenship should be allowed an
alternative route to illegal immigration.
They can enter a lottery for weekly or monthly televised gladiatorial
games where they fight another potential immigrant.
The winner gets resident status and a modest financial reward.
The
loser gets patched up and sent home, or a free funeral.
To avoid legal complications, and complaints from hand-wringing
pinko liberals, the fights would be staged on a ship in international
waters.
Governments get the revenue from the TV rights after the costs of
running the ship are paid to the organizers.
The immigrant song
https://www.youtube...watch?v=kEGuHdKn0Lc
[normzone, Mar 25 2016]
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This is more or less the present system. |
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Lol, 'immigrants', right? |
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What language would the fights be announced in? |
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Maybe a spelling bee would suffice. Usually less blood. |
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For the fights in Grandmothers and toddlers classes, perhaps Tag teams ? |
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8th, the only problem I see with this is: 50% of immigrants will be accepted.
If we pit two champions against each other for citizenship, then we will have half the immigration and almost twice the over-head. |
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Better would be something like "the amazing race" where camera crew follow groups of immigrants each trying a different route or approach to get to Germany. |
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Staging multiple daily fights playoff-style would reduce at-sea
overhead. A daily pool of 32 contestants sparring one-on-one
simultaneously would reduce to a single very tired champion
after 5 sets. |
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Did that Half Bakery flag ever make it out to you??
I've had several email changes since my Afghanistan deployment so I lost contact. |
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The downside to immigration is the probability that you
import disease, a casual disregard for the finer points of
enlightenment thinking, or violent murderers. This idea
essentially applies selective pressure FOR violent
murderers*. This is certainly a good idea, since the more
violent murderers a country has, the more realistic the
TV crime dramas seem. This is the first idea I have seen
today which really gets to the nub of the TV crime drama
credibility gap. |
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*possibly against disease, I imagine severe respiratory
infection or a congenital heart deformity would be
somewhat disadvantageous in a fight to the death. |
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