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The Hollywood actor is a prominent donor to the Democratic Party in the United States. In recent years, that has regularly led to criticism from President Trump, who has called him a “second-rate movie star,” among other things. According to Clooney, it didn’t bother him much. “It’s not my job to keep the President of the United States happy.”

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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 171 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[–] Klear@quokk.au 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm in the process of moving to France as well. Have been planning it before the current state of affairs and for work reasons but things like ICE and the Thought Police EO are expediting things.

Ultimately my family came here from Europe generations ago for better economic opportunities, more freedom, and virtually every one of us have served our country in some compacity. I no longer see anything on the list that is true anymore. Europe, and France, have their own problems but in the next 60-100 years they seem much more stable and democratic than the US.

I'm contemplating just going on our 90d visa, WFH with my American business, and simply renewing until I get a 1y long-term visa (which you can renew every year with proof of income and NOT working for a EU company). A lot of people on r/digitalnomad and r/getout do a variation of this in Fr.

If things get worse I genuinely think seeking political asylum may be on the table for some people. But I make enough money to not really consider that.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 22 hours ago

seems harder for non-tech, non scientist level people(i would say extremely difficult)

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd love to if I could afford it. Neither my wife or I are particularly tied to our families.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

rich people always say these things once they are safely away, remember ellen degeneres she only moved away because of diddy/epstein controversy last year, she smelled the wind could turn against her and she ditched the us.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I know and quite frankly I probrally should. Not enough money to leave yet too much anger to die.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io -3 points 1 day ago

And if you can't, whine about those who do.