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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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[–] [email protected] 106 points 3 days ago (2 children)

He’s doing this to avoid being associated with Apple, but this only highlights that he’s personally a piece of shit, in addition to Apple.

Fuck him, fuck Apple, and fuck all those other motherfucking bootlickers enabling these fucking fascists.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What's funny (or sad) is that 100 years from now this will be looked at the same was as when Ford or IBM supported the Nazis. Their business won't hurt long term and Tim Apple will be long dead.

[–] Frostbeard 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

IG Farben, Krupp, Thyssen, Boss, Porsche and the list goes on and on and on. Fuck I suspect that even my own grandfather "had stripes" (slang for collaboration with Nazis without yourself being proclaimed nazi) and he even fought them during the invasion of Norway.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

History doesn't repeat. It rhymes.

Buckle in kiddo it's gonna be a fun couple of decades if we survive it.

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 3 days ago

If we survive that long as a species.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

He should just be honest and said "this $1m is a mandatory payment to trump so that he exempts Apple from tariffs, no other reason", of course, then it's an obvious quid pro quo.