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

“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.

    • dink@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      14 days ago

      Needs to make sure there’s a loophole for Apple production when more China tariffs hit.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        14 days ago

        They don’t hate gays, they hate honesty, and also having social and legal limitations for various divergent traits allows blackmail and defamation.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          14 days ago

          They don’t hate gays

          Yeah, they only cheer on the concept of queer genocide and talk about how queer people groom children to support the idea.

          But they don’t hate them. Jesus loves them after all.

  • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    14 days ago

    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.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    14 days ago

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

  • Jinni@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    52·
    14 days ago

    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”.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      14 days ago

      Peter Thiel is also a gay man, and pulling a lot of these strings behind the scenes.

      It’s oligarchy. Thiel can fuck who ever he wants (and make them disappear when he’s done…) while maintaining political power by sacrificing queer people to the Hour of Hate.

    • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      he is ultra rich, the hateful divide and conquer tactics applied to common people don’t apply to him so he simply does not have any empathy for the matter.

  • JamesFire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    471·
    14 days ago

    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

    • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      12·
      14 days ago

      Like I said, they’re the least shitty. Can you think of a corp that’s better? Google? Fucking Meta? Microsoft?

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    14 days ago

    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…

      • skulbuny@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        14 days ago

        And go where? Where in the world is safe right now? I thought about living in the Philippines with my family, but China is probably waging war soon. Europe? With the way America is headed and the war is going? Let’s assume Ukraine wins: Europe is out of gas and will militarize and right wing governments are rising with German nationalism leading the battle drums, Ukraine gonna be in an economic slump, Russia is gonna be subservient and dependent on China because its economy is gone without a win.

        That leaves countries with metropolises that are suffering from westerners gentrifying their neighborhoods with the USD being strong in these places. We are really going to make the poor in other nations pay the price for our government’s doing again, but this time by our own choice? That’s not any better imo. Unless you are leaving with the specific intent on making the place you are going better, stay home please

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          14 days ago

          Do you mean safe or safer than the U.S.? Because you can’t be guaranteed of absolute safety anywhere. If you’re queer or brown, there are a lot of countries where you’ll be safer than the U.S.

          • skulbuny@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            14 days ago

            Fair point. If you are in immediate danger then yeah, not gonna argue. But if you are able to stay and do something, that should be preferable.

            I am brown (Filipino). I won’t be leaving. My sister lives here. My nephew. They can go somewhere safe, but there aren’t many places safe from a hot, land war in this world like the US observably is. Mayyybe Canada, but enjoy that economy.

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    14 days ago

    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”.

  • cultsuperstar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    14 days ago

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