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“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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[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

A rich white cis gay man backstabbing trans people?

This never happens, I'm shocked!

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[-] schwim@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

It's less than .05% of his worth. It's like us dropping pocket change in the Red Cross bucket and he'll make more than that in profit from changes the bribe paid for from the great cheetoh.

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

I’ll defend Apple as being the least shitty of the big tech giants but I can’t defend this.

You can defend settler colonialism?

[-] Tusser@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I feel bad for Tim.

He made a point during the first Trump administration that having a seat at the table is better than not.

This time around, it seems his first compromise is making a public “pay to play” donation to Trump, while keeping Apple itself out of the audit trail.

I am positive this is the last thing he wants to do, and is doing his best to protect the interests of his company while taking all the shrapnel from people explosively decrying his “bent knee” to this “Con-man in Chief”.

I blame Trump’s mafia tactics more than anything else. As hard as it is to compare a nearly $4-trillion company to mom and pop shop, this feels just like the local mafia shaking down small shops for protection money.

Again, I feel bad for Tim.

[-] molten@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Not much to do about it. But fuck him.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Nope. Sorry. I don't feel bad for members of the modern Association of German National Jews.

[-] karmiclychee@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Extortion, more like

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[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Didn't trump call him Tim Apple?

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