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
I mean, you can just put boulders over the bunker doors when they try hiding.
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.
Americans made their choice
Which countries do you think the mess will overflow into first? (Not to mention the ongoing global effects of the US dumpster fire)
Nationalism isn't a useful way to see the situation. It's everyone's problem, and those who have the wealth and influence to help are especially obliged to solve this.
Oh no, its well documented that he's a raging asshole. Fuck James Cameron.
Sorry sometimes I forget this isn't Reddit and I don't have to take pincers to criticize billionaires
Cameron will be forgotten once he leaves the Hollywood media bubble. He's never been politically influential, and his short intervals of fame relied solely on 2 movies. But his fame from Titanic and Avatar has mostly died out.
He could always make an anti-Trump film, and have the EU fund it.
"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
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.
I mean, remaining on a sinking ship doesn't save anyone else from drowning. Some people have a life raft, I can't blame them for using it. I would get out if I could, cause things don't seem to be getting better anytime soon except on the off chance the midterms actually save us.
Ideally, the folks getting away on the life rafts wouldn't be determined by how much money they have. Maybe send the most vulnerable first, and the people with the means to resist stay behind. But that's not how this situation works, unfortunately.
It's a crabs-in-a-bucket situation. Why pull down the ones who can escape?
Honestly, if I was relatively wealthy, odds are that I would tuck tail and run away from the US. Unfortunately, my poverty has backed me into a corner. Flight isn't an option, only fight.
Yerp, the wealthy are always insulated from the problems they create. And then they get upset when we try to tax them to contribute to fixing those problems.
"It doesn't affect me, why should I pay for it?" "Motherfucker, you caused it!"
Huh? New Zealand is in much better shape than america.
FYI, he moved to New Zealand.
I'm surprised people here aren't mad that Hayao Miyazaki rarely visited the US since Bush II.
Settler Colonialist off to settle somewhere new, along with a swarm of other resource hungry billionaires.
New Zealand's got a rich people problem like Bronze Age Egypt had a locust problem
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
Because their "politics" usually involves everyone ignoring their grievances in favor of preserving celebrities' comfort.
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
Giving an interview with what sounds like a both sidesism is not helpful in a speaking out sense. As for taxes is production companies are still California based and his distributor is still 20th Century Fox.
Then he can do without the both sidesism.
Whats irritating about this is not so much that he chose to leave but that he did so while making an unhelpful comment attacking every side in the political mess.
I would also be careful ignoring Trump. As much as I would like to think Trump is ignorable he has nukes and unlike Xi and Putin seems to have dementia.
calling them out, is all they are doing, no other action than that.
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.
A million people left https://en.wikipedia.org/...
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.
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.
rich or have a Phd in stem that is niche, same goes for MDs in a in-demand specialty.
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."
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.
What a fucking terrible take like what the hell
Explain. I gave one way that you don't have to be rich to leave a country.
No one owes the US anything. It's not like this snuck up on you.
i'm busy making sure it never comes here. Americans need to own up and right their house.
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.
thinking about the countless immigrants who left everything to start a new life in America, back before the fascists took control.
Brother, where do you think all of America's "free real estate" came from?
We've always been a fascist nation.
From the eugenics checks at Ellis Island to see if you passed to the four million + deportations under Genocide Joe.
Poor little Freddy just wants to go back to the good old Blue MAGA ICE days that didn't affect his lib demographic
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...
now the reverse is happening, only for people who can MOVE. like scientists and rich people.
"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."
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!
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.”
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
Why would he stay and help you if you're just going to guillotine him afterwards?
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
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.
I did see a lot of people who were glad or even gleeful he wasn't spouting his vitriol and died in a way he explicitly approved of, but I'm not on facebook so I didn't see people making threats at each other. That being said, I know that people both to the right and left of Kirk hated him, so it's very possible all the hate being spewed was from the right. Seeing as how since the ICE surge isn't getting the same level of vitriol, I think it's safe to say that most of those weren't people that weren't "left" in any sense of the imagination, or just bots.
You mean aside from deepthroated support for genocide, right?
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!
He’s moving to the ocean.
Where would you rather live
That’s it, foist the responsibility out. Attaboy.
No wonder why he left.
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?
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.
So James Cameron made what movie about how bad The USA politics is & how bad Capitalism (or should I being saying Feudalism) is? Answer NONE!
What a spoiled brat, I love Avatar movie series, but just go, we do not need you
How did you watch the Avatar movies and not see US imperialism parallels?
No, I did see that USA invading other places/nationalities, Other Beings & Environments, even saw past genocide of North American Indigenous people, Other Beings & Environments, by The USA. That is so rare, no one else I know of does that sort of movie series , THEN IT IS JUST A PRETTY/FLUFF SET OF MOVIES! Unfortunately 1st is light years better
How do you not see that is different from the BLANK going on now?
‘The Crazy Don’ & Etc. is coming from inside, directly destroying everything & not hiding anything; NOT from outside, directly destroying outside-indirectly destroying inside & hiding important things, from back home & propagandizing the rest.
That Mr. Cameron is running a way from, as a wealthy, thus privileged coward that he is, not in the protests, risking everything, for the people that made him the stuff that enables him to hide in another country!
Plus, many of his other movies are the exact opposite of taking on Capitalism (or should I being saying Feudalism) & it’s favorites- Rich-Super Rich Economic Classes/Owners!
So James Cameron made what movie about how bad The USA politics is & how bad Capitalism is?
Avatar 1, 2, and 3. Aliens. Alita: Battle Angel. Escape from New York. Strange Days. Titanic.
Thanks for contributing to the capitalist machine and fucking off either people’s money.
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.
He always struck me as a pussy.
How many dives to the Mariana Trench have you achieved?
He hasn't done a decent movie since aliens but I guess your right. He is a pussy who has done useless things but didn't insist on building the sub himself. Like other dumb asses have and failed.
Nah man I'm a professional scuba diver (well retired now) and avatar 2 and 3 made huge difference in pop cultural understand of the ocean. It's his most important work yet and one of the most important Hollywood movies ever. I've seen thousands of people here in Thailand alone who got into scuba diving and reduced their sea food consumption just because of Avatar - this is good!
Don't let your hate for the system blind you.
Feel about him ever how you wish. It wont affect how I feel about him in any way. He is running away. He is white and running away says it all to me. Avatar was just another CGI Cowboys and Indians fantasy. The plot couldn't have been any blunter.
In order for another persons opinion to matter I have to care about them in some way.
He is running away.
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Must be nice to be so rich you can just decide to leave.
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