Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund
(www.macrumors.com)
from schizoidman@lemm.ee to technology@beehaw.org on 04 Jan 2025 00:34
https://lemm.ee/post/51617054
from schizoidman@lemm.ee to technology@beehaw.org on 04 Jan 2025 00:34
https://lemm.ee/post/51617054
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/23858632
“Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, reports Axios. The donation will be a personal donation directly from Cook rather than a donation from Apple”
I’ll defend Apple as being the least shitty of the big tech giants but I can’t defend this.
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Kiss the ring
He doesn't want to be left behind, everyone else is doing it, the King will be mad at you if you're the outlier.
Or the mad king will feel insulted.
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He is cooked.
The apple does not fall far from the cookbook.
Apple has been dead since Jobs took his last breath. He was pretty morally bankrupt too, but at least the products were innovative. Apple hasn’t done shit since, except milk a very milked out cow to death.
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Paying a tribute to the feudal lord
Tim Apple is a snake. He is a morally bankrupt person. He does back room deals with China and dinner deals with Trump in order to sell more iphones.
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How the fuck it’s any of that legal?
Compared to what elon did, this doesn’t even look that bad. When you got money, everything is legal.
I was including Elon too, the ‘any’ includes political ‘donations’ through PACs and all of that shit too.
Because American democracy, is not real and this is a scientifically proven fact. act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/
“The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.” Gilens & Page, Perspectives in Politics
They even made a video about it youtu.be/5tu32CCA_Ig
And I found this, but I can’t read it.
Why Estimates of the Impact of Public Opinion on Public Policy Are Too High: Empirical and Theoretical Implications -Paul Burstein
www.jstor.org/stable/3844500
Do you think all of this is amplified by state actors like Russia and the Saudis?
No I’m just repating the hypocrisy in hope that somebody cares about it too.
I mean when I grew up America was the bastion of Democracy, the home of the free and something to aspire to. I guess in just in an extended period of mourning.
Hate to shatter that ideal more, but the US has never been a bastion of democracy. The electoral college has existed since the founding, women have only been able to vote since 1920, and black folks have only fully been enfranchised since 1965. Even so, the right has been working to disenfranchise black and poor folks ever since.
I know, but the idea itself is attractive. Just like the people that want America great again, I don’t agree with their ‘philosophy’ (that’s stretching the word) but I kind of understand the sentiment.
You are grieving for something that never really existed. If it exists and we are bold enough, then it exists in the future but you’ll have to trade your grief for hope, and an aluminium baseball bat.
Shocker.