• grue@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months ago

      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.