Technology

Pathetic thinly veiled bribe

Imagine being a woman working for Apple and having a CEO who funds a rapist.

What the fucking, fuck.

Amazon, Meta, Uber, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Coinbase, Toyota, Ford, GM, AT&T, Black & Decker, and Charter Communications are also making donations to Trump's inauguration fund.

I guess I never really paid attention before but is it normal for companies to donate to an inauguration fund? It sure seems like a government sanctioned protection racket.

Why does such a thing as an inaugural fund exist? Seems like it's just to facilitate more corruption!

As a Bi man there is something that particularly stings about a well known, openly gay CEO funding a man who is hateful towards LGBTQ+ people. I never really liked him nor apple but it is an extra fuck you.

Being rich is ultimately the disease as it compels him to appeal to power but I hope the last things hears is "Told you I would kill you last".

Fuck Tim Apple

It really is a class war, not a culture war.

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

Why would you do that though? The only thing I'm aware of that they do even remotely better than anyone else is privacy. But it's not that much better, and it comes at the cost of gestures at everything else

All these Billionaires PAYING Trump MILLIONS of Dollars is PROOF he CANT be Bought!

It's not going to make him remember your actual name, Tim.

You'll always be Tim Apple to him.

They're being shaken down. Same as Mark Zuckerberg being summoned to a meeting with Trump and the next day paying $1m to the same fund.

I'm betting these meetings went something like, "You don't want a president as an enemy, do you? Cough up."

And don't think of it as a tax on the rich - it's not going towards the benefit of the American people. It's extortion.

Have inauguration funds always been a thing? Or is this a Trump thing? What’s the purpose?

I can understand campaign funds. But if you’ve won I don’t know if I understand a candidate specific donation after the fact.

Tim Cook is hoping to be spared when Trump starts purging gay people.

These CEOs are funding hate, violence and the end of American democracy - they have enough power, money and influence to oppose, yet they don't. They decided that a few must be sacrificed for the greater ~~good~~ profit.

Something happened on the 4th of December. Today is the 4th of January. Just in case anyone's calendar app is stuck closed. Interesting if true...

This country makes me sick to my stomach. What a fucking joke.

The personal donation part is weird. This sounds like a deliberate attempt to appease the fascists while trying, desperately, to maintain Apple's image.

Gross. Sick of rich assholes enabling the fascist.

Tim Apple.

Absolutely disgusting

Paying his tribute to the king. He'll have to donate more if he wants to usurp Elon. How much has Zuck donated?

$1 million seems to be the going fealty price for these people.

Paying largesse/protection money.

No matter how much money they spend on this party they're still celebrating putting a convicted con man in the White House - whoopeee! - while the chumps who voted for him say, "What... my meds aren't covered anymore?"

Congratulations on flushing your country down a solid gold toilet, "conservatives".

Typical CEO tribute to the newly crowned King of the United States for some tariff exemptions.