Apple CEO Tim Cook gives 24-karat gold gift to Donald Trump
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Imagine prostrating yourself to Trump in this embarrassing way. Sheesh.
All the people that surely criticized Musk at the time, would surely not criticize cook this time, because Apple fans... They have it in their hands
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Gift? You mean bribe.
Yes this is a bribe. Period.
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Imagine prostrating yourself to Trump in this embarrassing way. Sheesh.
Bribery is now not just legal, but mandatory
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Apple stock did, and unfortunately it even makes sense why. Considering how self-centered Trump is, and how easily swayed he can be by a literal shiny rock being given to him, this was probably a legitimately good trade for Apple.
They spend some money on a gold brick with some laser-cut glass, and the president of the entire country either gives them preferential treatment, or simply doesn't take any more extreme actions he was planning to take against them.
The shareholders should be ashamed.. That's not good business, that's evil.
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Imagine prostrating yourself to Trump in this embarrassing way. Sheesh.
Emperor Cheesar accepting gold tribute from his feudal vassal
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Imagine prostrating yourself to Trump in this embarrassing way. Sheesh.
I guess Trump didn't like the rimjob from Tim the first time.
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OK let me play devil's advocate for a moment: it's the only language he speaks. You must stroke his ego, and give him an opportunity to look down on you.
Of course it's still corporate cronyism.
Yeah the real story here should be hey everyone, look how transparently easy it is to manipulate the President of the United States
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It’s like nuclear weapons
Unless everyone gets rid of them nobody will
Being the only one not to “bend the knee” will just hurt you if everyone else kisses his ass
This is apple we're talking about. Not some random company.
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Imagine prostrating yourself to Trump in this embarrassing way. Sheesh.
A set of shiny keys dangled in his face so he forgets about demanding a US-made Iphone.
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Google hasn’t “bent the knee”?
How about we make all tech ceos work in the cobalt mines instead of children
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Imagine prostrating yourself to Trump in this embarrassing way. Sheesh.
wrote last edited by [email protected]In other countries this would be a criminal offense. For example in Austria: if the value of the gift is above 50000€ , it's 6 months - 5 years; if over 300k€ it's 1-10 years of prison.
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Back door to Apple customer data maybe?
They already get that from the PRISM act.
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“Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”
Apple's Tim Cook donated $1 million personally to Trump. Not Apple Inc, Tim Cook. And now he's donating this as well. These are not the same.
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Imagine prostrating yourself to Trump in this embarrassing way. Sheesh.
Now that's pathetic. Whatever happened to apple? What was even the latest cool thing they did? Seems almost irrelevant now
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In other countries this would be a criminal offense. For example in Austria: if the value of the gift is above 50000€ , it's 6 months - 5 years; if over 300k€ it's 1-10 years of prison.
The same loophole exists almost anywhere: "its a gift to white house or trumps library"
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“Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”
So is Google and every major company
You're right it's both now can we fuck off with the "buh buh buh the other company!" bullshit?
Article is about Apple not Google.
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Class is the only identity that matters to them
Tim Cook giving off real housen****r vibes
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Well fuck, Clarence is basically a black white supremacist.
It’s pretty clear by now that the character Stinkmeaner is based wholly on Clarence Thomas
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You're right it's both now can we fuck off with the "buh buh buh the other company!" bullshit?
Article is about Apple not Google.
On nerdy sites like Lemmy people tend to fawn over Google and they can do no wrong
And every slight Apple does is The Worst Ever
If Google does the same thing, out come the excuses.
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How about we make all tech ceos work in the cobalt mines instead of children
Let’s go. Start from the richest one down.
