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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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[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 16 points 16 hours ago

Anyone would have a better life in France instead of the US but good for him. Glad to see there’s still some backbone in Hollywood.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago

Wish I had the money to escape the United States too

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 22 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I'm a regular guy who saved up for years while studying another language and gtfo of the US. It's an option.

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 110 points 1 day ago (3 children)

ITT: people not realizing his wife was born in Lebanon. Are they safer than your average non-pure-white family? Absolutely. But they have legitimate reasons to be scared.

Also apparently she's a human rights lawyer so she's bound to have pissed off republicans one way or another already.

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 69 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She was a key part of the team prosecuting the war crimes case against Israel

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Yeah I get hating rich people, because fuck inequality, that's true, but the Clooneys seem like pretty decent people to me as far as rich celebrities are concerned.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

He for sure has too much money(Google said $500 mill) but he’s small time compared to the richest and the corporations that are doing the most damage to the future. I doubt more than a few folks interested in eating the rich are champing at the bit to get at Clooney.

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[–] hanrahan@feddit.online 2 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Well VP Vances wife is an immigrant, as is Trump:s wife

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

And haven't you seen how elated they appear to be about their choices (assuming they had a choice to begin with)?

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[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Wtf is wrong with these comments. Is lemmy full of hate bots now aswell?

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Trump has won twice, and you still blame "bots".

It's people. Just people.

[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago

God i know but i want them to be bots.

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 275 points 1 day ago (10 children)

The American dream is now to escape America.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Don't you mean French actor Le George Clooney?

[–] EinderJam@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

George Le Clooney

[–] VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 91 points 1 day ago (3 children)

And they still let him in after that Louvre heist?!

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago

Ocean’s 14 is about to be authentic as fuck

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[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The rich and famous will live their lives in a bubble no matter where they reside. And Clooney is still going to hear about Trump's criticisms no matter where he lives.

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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Having more money than you could spend in your lifetime buys you options not available to most people, news at 11.

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

i got out with less than 20k.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 163 points 1 day ago (8 children)
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[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

I lived in France for two years and he's absolutely right.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Him and the lead singer for AFI are models of what men should be more like.

[–] NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Davey Havok? What did he do?

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 129 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Must be nice to have "Buy Myself French Citizenship" kind of money.

[–] acchariya@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (6 children)

You only need savings of about 1.5x the SMIC (minimum wage) - currently 1801.80€ monthly for 12 months and you can get a year visa. If you have enough the following year, you can renew. Do that four times and you can ask for a more or less permanent multi-year residency if you speak french by that time. So as you can see, you could probably sell a house in the US for a decent profit and invest time enough to gain French residency without needing George Clooney money.

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[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He could do it for under $500K. He probably started the talent investor visa process during the 45 administration, as they take about 4 years to get approved.

Super easy for him to spin up some production company that makes 2 art movies a year, hire 3 French people he knows on 5-year contracts, and he's basically at the minimum requirements. If he's bought and invested more than a certain amount in a home as well, that also counts towards citizenship.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He could do it for under $500K.

Oh, is that all? Let me check my couch for loose change.

If he’s bought and invested more than a certain amount in a home as well, that also counts towards citizenship.

I'm sure he has a home in the South of France. Probably walking distance from the Cannes movie festival

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[–] anubis119@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago

Océan's Onze

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 87 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They're rich. His children will be fine wherever they are.

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 16 hours ago

being rich doesn't protect you from fascism

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 66 points 1 day ago

Says something when even rich people are better off elsewhere.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lemmy in a fucking nutshell: Fuck these rich people!

Also lemmy, missed the entire fucking point.

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[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 107 points 1 day ago (16 children)

If you’re NOT on a government watch list by now, you should be ashamed of yourself.

[–] acme401@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're posting history of the last 6 years doesn't get you on a list, I don't want to be your friend.

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[–] fantasyocean@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago
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