Avatar director, who moved to New Zealand after the Covid pandemic says he will soon be a citizen of a country where people ‘are, for the most part, sane’
  • carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    261·
    2 hours ago

    “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.

    • deifyed@lemmy.wtf
      71·
      5 hours ago

      To be fair; famous people usually get shat on (and rightly so) when speaking about politics

  • robocall@lemmy.world
    32·
    3 hours ago

    America needs bravery and leadership now more than ever.

    “I’m out! K thx for the millions, bye” - Cameron

    • Anahkiasen@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      683·
      16 hours ago

      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

    • Juice@midwest.social
      365·
      14 hours ago

      “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

    • Skeezix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      12 hours ago

      I left with just a few k in my pocket. Being rich helps quite a bit, but it’s not the only method.

      • Cenotaph@mander.xyzEnglish
        17·
        11 hours ago

        Often it’s less the price of leaving and more about getting the new country to let you stay

    • etherphon@midwest.socialEnglish
      16·
      15 hours ago

      All the assholes who are making the country worse could afford to do that easily, leaving the rest of us stuck here to clean up the shit, what else is new though.

    • Hayduke@lemmy.world
      21·
      15 hours ago

      Yup. I mean, I get it, but I would not advertise it. If everyone jumped ship, those that simply couldn’t would drown within it, so he isn’t exactly helping the situation. Need every vote possible, and dollar for that matter.

  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
    211·
    15 hours ago

    “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.”

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      86·
      16 hours ago

      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.”

    • BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world
      11·
      5 hours ago

      I mean, “both sides” are intentionally being riled up and driven to violent and dangerous rhetoric by one side so yeah. I hate Trump and Repubs but it’s insane the vile shit you see people say. On both sides.

      Now where the sides are completely different is that 999/100 on the lefter side aren’t going to go commit violent hateful acts. On the other side it’s a lot worse ratio.

      Should note that it’s just social media. In real life it’s just conservatives being insane vs sensible people

        • BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world
          11·
          5 hours ago

          Generally comments on Facebook. I was seeing vitriolic death shit around the Charlie Kirk stuff but extended. Everyone in the comments telling each other to die and threatening. It was gross. Driven by bots it gets everyone worked up. Since the ICE “crackdown” though it seems to be just racists vs sensible people, and I’m glad for that.

    • supernight52@lemmy.world
      304·
      16 hours ago

      More like- just a rich douche seeing the way the wind is blowing, and is getting out before the guillotines are built.

      • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        241·
        16 hours ago

        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

        • TWeaK@lemmy.today
          151·
          15 hours ago

          As far as rich douches go, James Cameron is probably one of the cleaner ones.

            • TWeaK@lemmy.today
              3·
              6 hours ago

              I think the opinion of those that have worked with him would be most relevant to that.

                • TWeaK@lemmy.today
                  32·
                  4 hours ago

                  Every one of us profits from a system that exploits workers. There are workers who can’t even get online, they’re suffering more than you, and what little you have is partly due to their underpaid efforts.

                  Don’t let imperfection be the enemy of good. We’re all a part of a system that exploits others, so that can’t be any useful metric as it paints everyone.