Must be nice to have the ability to do it.
There are relatively easy paths out. If you’re young enough, Canada offers a working holiday visa program
I was able to save enough and do it while working as a line cook. The most expensive part is physically moving
We should be celebrating other people leaving. It hurts the regime.
Lots of people left russia before and after the war started, it doesn’t hurt enough. Government was actually ok with that.
I’m about 90% sure they’ve been trying to get educated people to leave the U.S. before the midterms. It feels like some of the disinformation campaigns of 2026 have become so obvious now compared to the campaigns of 2016.
There’s obviously a chance there won’t be midterms but as dumb as these people are, they probably didn’t kick off a 50 year long plan to destroy the U.S. government and overthrow democracy without a Plan A, Plan B, and probably a Plan C.
Even if Plan A is to cancel the midterms, it’s easier to do that, along with a lot of other bullshit, if you successfully carry out a Plan B where you convince a significant chunk of the population with education, money, and influence to leave the country before you carry out Plan A. That leaves a weaker population to push back against you.
He is literally not American
Yes I’m aware.
America needs bravery and leadership now more than ever.
“I’m out! K thx for the millions, bye” - Cameron
If he stays in the US, he would continue paying takes to the US government. By leaving he is taking away tax dollars
What benefit is there in him staying? What could he only do from within the US?
What benefit is there in him staying?
He would continue receiving millions in free Hollywood media attention to keep him relevant. He’ll soon be forgotten in NZ, just like George Clooney and Rosie O’Donnell.
It is nice to be so Rich & a immigrant to The USA, so that you can just leave. I been trying to live in Denmark, for decades!
Via con dios. I’m a blue collar paycheck to paycheck schlub. I have to stay. I have to survive. In the end I will bring a strong back and a shovel to clean up the mess.
It’s funny, reading your sad little statement while thinking about the countless immigrants who left everything to start a new life in America, back before the fascists took control. We really are a sad little nation now, in more ways than one.
now the reverse is happening, only for people who can MOVE. like scientists and rich people.
I’m telling you that I don’t want to be involved in a conflict beyond my control but I’m willing to stay and work for a better life on the other side of the violence, and you’re saying that it’s a sad statement compared to the immigrants who left their violent countries to pursue a better life in a country with no war?
Can you understand your mistake here? I’m not leaving. I want to survive and use my skills to rebuild what I can after the 2-digit IQ war is over. I’m sad because I’m volunteering to clean up the mess?
He is feeling sad for you, and wishes a happier life, for you…
ITT: People mad that Canadian celebrity won’t stay in the US and fix it.
I’m surprised people here aren’t mad that Hayao Miyazaki rarely visited the US since Bush II.
ITT: People who don’t know that most immigrants around the world are in fact poor people
Not really surprised a Canadian would do that. Rich Canadians seem to be pretty fucking awful.
FYI, he moved to New Zealand.
smart… hiding from maps
I think you mean middle earth, though as a kiwi, it’s not all sunshine and lollipops here.
Man makes his wealth through the American movie industry, leaves when America gets bad.
Yeah I’d say everyone has the right to be angry at that.
Edit: extremists are a plague
He got rich off the back of American Labor.
America was good enough for him to stay and make millions. As soon as things aren’t perfect, he wants to run to where the grass is greener. That’s a good reason to be angry.
as soon as things aren’t perfect
Dumb take.
Would you prefer he stay in the US and continue funding this regime?
Trump cares about money and power. Taking away some money is about the strongest message a non-politician can send. It also doesn’t stop him speaking out, or funding opposition. He can still do everything else
The only real result is that the US is losing his tax dollars and businesses. That’s what you’re complaining about.
He could use his money to fund opposition
He still can. This doesn’t change that
You know he won’t lmfao
He could get out there and energize protests. In the country he got so much out of. While its citizens rot with no healthcare he lived like a king off our labor. Fuck every one of these people.
Exactly, he’s made so much money off the American public and when stuff gets bad he leaves. Normally lemmy doesn’t defend the rich but here we are.
Would you prefer he stay in the US and continue funding this regime?
America will outlast Trump. The Dems need another candidate with the campaign skills of Bill Clinton or Barack Obama to make him and his followers totally forgettable. Republicans will triumph as long as the Dems keep pushing presidential candidates with weak campaign skills on us.
I don’t really see the difference in general doctrine between Trump and the others.
Trump is just more in your face, but for the rest he is just another US president.
Gimme one that would rediscuss the role of Israel (or even its existence) and who will actually support Ukraine and then maybe we can talk.
This isn’t just Trump. People want to act like this is one man. The United States does not function. It will not get better after Trump leaves.
We need someone stronger than them since they still compromised with conservatives. We need someone who will control the party with an iron fist and yank everything left instead of just wanting to return to the status quo. Someone willing to tell every Republican and their supporters to go fuck themselves.
I hope that someone is AOC. It would be an extra spicy repudiation to these bastards if it was GASP, a woman, who reformed America and is a central figure in the history books.
All done ripping off Frank Herberts early works yet?
Cameron is complicit. He just took a shitload of money from Meta
Sooo… meta has less money now?
Not really, they fired thousands of people right away to offset the cost of paying old Jim here. So he fundamentally disrupted all those lives, and the lives of the worker’s dependent families, and now he’s bouncing with the spoils.
they fired thousands of people right away to offset the cost of paying old Jim here
Can you substantiate your claim?
Meta has tons of cash, so it seems unlikely they would need to lay off thousands to pay for him
Substantiate to what end, Your Honor? Timeline is all public of their layoff timelines in their reality labs division, the partnership with Cameron on same work and the proximity between the two.
Can you substantiate what you’re now going to do with this information, detective?
You’re mistaking correlation for causation?
They are directly connected.
Where would you rather live
That’s it, foist the responsibility out. Attaboy.
Fuck that. Get your able-bodied ass back here and help us fix this shit, you coward!
You and Trump agree on that one
I strongly disagree. Taking his businesses and tax dollars away from the US is the most impactful individual action he could take
He can speak out against Trump much more freely from NZ. If he stays, he’s more likely to face retaliation for speaking out
What is he going to do to fix the regime that he can’t do from NZ?
Also keep in mind he’s Canadian. That makes him more vulnerable to reprisal for speaking out, but it’s also not his country to fix
He can speak out against Trump much more freely from NZ.
Old US celebrities especially need US entertainment media attention in order to stay relevant. He’s hurting himself. Nobody will miss him or his opinions, or his relatively small bank account compared to the US treasury.
lol, delusional. man probably has the funding/connections to start a production studio wherever the fuck he wants
He is in fact a Canadian from Canada. Do you think everyone who left Nazi Germany in the 30s was a coward?
The super rich? Yes.
The whole country is doing a Titanic.
What the rest of the world, EU turning Far Right Nazi & no one cares enough to prevent worse of ‘Global Warming’ & we keep overpopulating the world with us & our favorite animals!
Doing a speed run from “I’m the King of the World!” to drowning.
Yes take what you could and get out while it’s bad. Fuck off then.
He’s moving to the ocean.
Thanks for contributing to the capitalist machine and fucking off either people’s money.
Whenever I see people telling American to just leave the US, I always think “so I have to be rich to move to a new country? And I’m supposed to be a problem?” It costs tens of thousands of dollars to get just the application. It’s extremely privileged to assume everyone can do that.
You can pretty easily get a job for shit wages teaching English in Japan, and it’s not the only country like that. You don’t have to be rich, you just have to consider a different standard of living acceptable
if thats all you are going to do, and can live off that then go for it. i doubt its the majority of the people that move there though. usually japan isnt really keen on giving much room for foreigners with careers, let alont immigrate there, especially now they have elected a far-right PM.
Back during W Bush second term, I looked at migration to just Canada. It was several thousands of dollars for the application, need to have employment shortly after moving there or before then. Now it’s harder to do so.
THE PROBLEM is finding employment, i assume most people already had that set up prior to landing canada. its more likely if you are planning to go to “school” there , or have a in-demand job that canada needs filling.
I feel like it says a lot that he believes everybody is at each other’s throats right now.
Most people seem to have a lot less tolerance for unnecessary bullshit, as in just not having the energy to waste pretending.
I think it’s because most people who are aware of reality are also aware that shit is very bad right now, unless you’re a Nazi and it’s intentional. This country is being held hostage by Nazis trying to goad us into a civil war, and it’s kind of psychotic to pretend things are normal.
There are some people who seem to want to pretend the same rules as always still apply, because it makes them feel more in control. They get offended when people don’t play along and pretend reality isn’t reality, but … tough shit. This is a fucking ridiculous mess.
I can’t help but wonder if he views people no longer pretending to be nice about his bullshit as “everyone being at each other’s throats.”
rich or have a Phd in stem that is niche, same goes for MDs in a in-demand specialty.
Could’a helped with his hundreds of millions of dollars instead of making Unreal Engine’s Smurfs and the Chamber Of White Saviours for the past twenty fucking years.
