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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by sensanaty on Saturday July 20, 2024 @08:24PM (#41021410)
Frankly, my home country doesn't deserve my brain, nor the brain of anyone else willing and able to leave it.

It's a nice sentiment, but you also can't ignore that, if people like myself are willing to go through the oftentimes extremely stressful task of emigrating with all the things that entails, there's probably a reason for it. It's not like you can just pick up and leave, after all

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by foobarian on Saturday July 20, 2024 @08:35PM (#41021457)
It's all fun and games until your host country grows a secret police willing to threaten what family remains behind to keep you from leaving.
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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by sensanaty on Saturday July 20, 2024 @08:41PM (#41021489)
None of my family has been back in decades, we've long since abandoned it.

Also, that situation is a lot more likely to occur in the mother country than most people's host countries, if it doesn't happen already. There's a reason it was the East germans fleeing, and not the other way around.

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