2mo ago

Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund

www.macrumors.com Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund

Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration fund, reports Axios. The donation will be a personal donation...

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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2mo ago

Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund

www.macrumors.com /2025/01/03/tim-cook-trump-inauguration-donation/

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2mo ago

Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund

www.macrumors.com /2025/01/03/tim-cook-trump-inauguration-donation/

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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.

- He is cooked.
  
  The apple does not fall far from the cookbook.

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.

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. 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?
  
  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.

Paying a tribute to the feudal lord

Tim is sucking it hard baby

Shocker.

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