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Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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cross-posted from: https://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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[–] 73 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Kiss the ring

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    • [+] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    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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    • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    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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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How the fuck it's any of that legal?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Because American democracy, is not real and this is a scientifically proven fact. https://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 https://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

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/3844500

    Do you think all of this is amplified by state actors like Russia and the Saudis?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    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.

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    • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Paying a tribute to the feudal lord

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Shocker.

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