I’m surprised you’d let him push you out of your own country
I wanted to see why he stayed, and dammit, his wife is right. If any of us leave, that’s one less person to fight fascism, making victory a little less likely every time.
The fighting, at this point, is going to have to be literal physical fighting. Wealthy famous people aren’t going to be doing that anyway. People will fight fight when they don’t have any other options; wealthy people always have other options. And in the modern age, wealthy people who want to voice opposition using their platform can continue to do so from the safety of some other country.
I live by Michael Bolton’s motto from Office Space. “Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.”
On the other hand, high-profile but not politically-powerful people leaving might help the cause by highlighting how dire the situation is and breaking people out of their complacency.
If he were staying because he was actually planning to work against the regime that’d be different, of course, but being an elderly actor I’m not expecting that from him. He ain’t exactly Luke Skywalker IRL, after all.
On the other hand, high-profile but not politically-powerful people leaving might help the cause by highlighting how dire the situation is and breaking people out of their complacency.
I don’t think it’d have that effect. I think that, for the people cheering on this downfall, they’ll think “good riddance”; for everyone else, who can’t leave, it’ll feel like abandonment.
The only reason he could really leave was because he’s rich. Please tell me countries that are willing to accept US citizens currently on EBT.
But then he didn’t because:
“The actor, forever linked with playing Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars films, told The Times that he was initially set to leave the US after Trump’s election victory but his wife, Marilou York, talked him into staying.”
Hamill had given gave …
Proofreading is dead.
The copy editors have all been layed off.
At least it’s not AI
