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A retired Aurora police sergeant faces criminal charges for raping his daughter and continually sexually assaulting her and his two adopted daughters, but he remains free from custody while his ex-wife is in jail for objecting to court-ordered reunification therapy meant to repair his relationship with two of his sons.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

If you asked me fifteen years ago if I wanted to live in the United States, I would have jumped on the first ship to Staten Island in a heartbeat.

Nowadays I don't even want to visit the country, and unjust bullshit like this is a big reason why. Y'all have a serious problem with allowing your police forces to do whatever the hell they want and argue "qualified immunity" for things that would land you significant prison time in another developed country.

I really question why there's still a lifelong waiting list to apply for a visa to work in the US, when the state of the country is actually quite bleak...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I know a lot of Africans. I question why any of them would want to move to America as opposed to Canada (where I am) and like me they don't understand when someone they know does make the decision to move south.

Yes the money is better but no one is going to care if you're from Zimbabwe. A black person is a black person is a black person down there and by and large America is hostile AF to black people.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The reason is because this fucked up shit doesn’t happen to the majority of people and the USA does actually offer a substantially better quality of life compared to many other places.

THAT SAID, yeah we have a lot of fucked up institutions in place that are authoritarian in nature (police) to uphold the status quo and ensure the money keeps making money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

USA does offer a substantially better quality of life compared to many other places>

Lol no. It “offers” the mirage of a better quality of life. That’s like saying that gambling is a job that will invariably improve your economic position. The chances of immigrants actually improving their life by moving to the U.S. aren’t that good. I mean, most of the countries that people move from at least have socialized healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The chances of immigrants actually improving their life by moving to the U.S. aren’t that good.

this is just factually wrong.

The vast majority of working immigrants that come to america have family outside of america that they send money to. It not only improves their quality of life but their family's as well.

We also have a fairly large temporary "guest" worker population in the agriculture field as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That currency conversion makes what they can spare a good amount of money for their family abroad does not mean that their quality of life has improved.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

the QOL of their family certainly also has. A lot of these people also come from places that are war torn or experiencing significant political corruption, the US is not nearly as bad as those places either.

Even then, chances are they're probably living in better conditions, for one reason or another. Healthcare, services, education.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Better quality of propaganda maybe, not life

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

If that was the only problem 🤗

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

to be clear, a lot of these problems exist on a county level and on a more broad state level, so this isn't quite a country level problem.

Bad people everywhere do bad things.