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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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
rich or have a Phd in stem that is niche, same goes for MDs in a in-demand specialty.
Must be nice to be so rich you can just decide to leave.
Exactly, in the article he sees the problem but instead of using his money to help he fucks off to be safe. He may not be an asshole but he's a a bit cowardish for it I feel even if he can still help from NZ it's more likely he will just focus on his life there than try to put out the gordian garbage fire that is the US
Why does a canadian have an obligation to help the US?
He owns more wealth, property, and control of businesses in the US than well over 99% of Americans.
NZ is where bunkers are.
Yeah. And as a kiwi it kinda pisses me off that we let wealthy Americans in. I'd rather it was a generic visa program than a pay-to-play.
"Must be nice" is the comment I came here to post.
I don't see him sticking his neck out either. I've heard about him crashing out that people dont like his blue space horse movies enough. Who has he tried to educate, or influence?
Good riddance, our culture is trash, you helped no one
Canada has a working holiday visa with the US
It's an open work visa for 1 year, and it renewable. Cost a few hundred between passport, paperwork, and other fees when I did it
It's available to all Americans without a criminal history, if they are below the age of 30 or 35 (I forget the exact requirements for each cut off)
You don't have to be rich. I was working as a line cook when I saved up enough to move
ITT: People mad that Canadian celebrity won't stay in the US and fix it.
ITT: People who don't know that most immigrants around the world are in fact poor people
"Everyone is at each others throats" is some delightful both-sidesing.
These rich "common sense" centrists really have no idea.
"At each other's throats?" 30% of the country is behaving like Nazis, others are calling them on it, and a disturbing percentage are silent. Yes I suppose more people could be silent to help preserve his feelings.
He has the money and platform to speak out. Instead he leaves.
He can still speak out just as well
Money is also the #1 thing this adminitration cares about. Cameron taking him money, businesses, and most importantly tax dollars to NZ and Canada instead is the most impactful individual action he could do
To be fair; famous people usually get shat on (and rightly so) when speaking about politics
No one owes the US anything. It's not like this snuck up on you.
No wonder why he left.
"I have decided to go to space and upload my consciousness into a blue alien furry and find a girl alien and we will kiss and it will be beautiful and deep and I am keeping all my Oscars."
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.
This some bOtH sIdEs trash?
Not at all
Cameron...described being the US under Donald Trump as “like watching a car crash over and over” and said his New Zealand citizenship was “imminent”.
“New Zealand had eliminated the virus completely,” he said. “They actually eliminated the virus twice. The third time, when it showed up in a mutated form, it broke through. But fortunately, they already had a 98% vaccination rate.”
“This is why I love New Zealand. People there are, for the most part, sane – as opposed to the United States, where you had a 62% vaccination rate, and that’s going down, going the wrong direction.
“Where would you rather live? A place that actually believes in science and is sane and where people can work together cohesively to a common goal, or a place where everybody’s at each other’s throats, extremely polarised, turning its back on science and basically would be in utter disarray if another pandemic appears.”
Yeah it’s not as bad as the headline alone makes it seem for sure! Still, weak ass quote. :p
More like- just a rich douche seeing the way the wind is blowing, and is getting out before the guillotines are built.
A quick skim of the article, he also cites how the US doesn’t believe in vaccines and that trump is a train wreck. That said, he did make the quote and is a rich douche so…. Point stands