Imagine being CEO of one the largest corporations in the US, and prostrating yourself to Trump in this embarrassing way. Sheesh.
So now that apple bent the knee can people finally stop buying apple shit?
I guess I’m the only one who sees this as “here little Donald, now play with this and let me do my job”.
Yeah that is not how dictatorship works. He is vending a knee
I think it’s that and also more and all of it is wrong and disgusting.
What if he’s on the list and doesn’t want his name coming out.
Just suck him off already, you fucks. Come on commit!
Cook speaks Trump. Fluently.
I have always hated Apple, this is just further proof that they are greedy fucks with no morals.
Such a disgusting display. Most normal people don’t want anything to do with rapists and child molesters, yet here’s Tim.
Honestly I am pretty sure this is a bribe to exempt Apple from tariffs. Billionaires care more about their profit than children being harm. It’s the sad truth.
It’s a bribe in disguise. It’s a tribute and a public spectacle of loyalty. And the top voted comment thinks Tim is playing 4d chess with Trump…
Nothing will improve until these people are eliminated from their positions of power. Stop giving Apple your money.
It’s all public spectacles. These people are there not for the money - they are there to make a point, that being that their ideas of authority are what we all must obey.
Preventive obedience, lack of mandate borders, authority not requiring justification, a demand for justification being itself disobedience, implicit trust to authority, and so on.
These are all people who’d be not very respected or listened to in any normal kind of group. They dreamed of getting to a position where they will be, due to hierarchy. And that’s an abuse of any system, so they are hostile to any immunity mechanisms detecting and fixing such an abuse.
So the whole point is in them taking power and showing us all that it’s their rule and their time and it works like some thief feudalism with spectacles of loyalty, spectacles of cruelty, spectacles of stealing and getting away with it and demonstrative abuse of any legal principle.
I respect Cato institute people very much, they somehow manage to say this same thing without my emotion in their various materials.
All in plain sight. Brass and shameful. Why has this been normalize? 😡
He pretty much says it, right? 'here’s a 24k gold bar… to hold the plaque we engraved your name on
I already hate Apple products, so I can’t not buy them to make a statement about not supporting fascist loving corpo scum.
Tim Cook, and Apple, is supporting a pedophile. Remember that when you walk into an Apple Store, if you can afford to.
I bet most of the people here replying in the comments are typing on what helped pay for that gold plated ass kissing device.
Nope.
I am typing on a slab of the biggest AI alop search machine with a Captial GI’m typing this on a Lenovo laptop keyboard (V14 series, the plastic casing is just a catastrophe near the lid hinges, though I’ve seen the same with the magnesium casing, it has plastic parts inside).
I’ve also pirated some Apple TV attempt at Foundation episodes, but honestly felt like The Arc. Sci-Fi with some right initial ideas, but ultimately thoroughly idiotic.
In case of Apple TV’s Foundation, I couldn’t help thinking that they were trying to make it “look expensive” and “feel elitarian” similarly to their products, first priority, make it feel “diverse” and in social interactions representing a certain prestigious set of political ideas, second priority, make it feel nuanced and intelligent more than be nuanced and intelligent, third priority.
Honestly even with 90s Apple stuff virtualized I feel something bad, like nausea, I wouldn’t be able to use it probably. Too much visual design flexing.
Is this a “you criticize society yet you participate in it” thing?
Ayy yo we got Ben Shapiro on Lemmy? 🤣
Great reply, from your iPhone.
I have an android. I hate them both but at least I can install any application I want.
Ya but I am pretty sure Google has done a lot to help Trump. Any big tech company wants to be on the good side of Trump.
Exactly, they all are sucking that orange teet now.
Maybe if we were on reddit, here I really don’t think that’s true.
Jesus, just pull his fly down and give him a blow job already.
Probably got bored of that
Why don’t they just transfer $200k directly to Trump?
so Trump excluded Apple from his tarriffs, right?
Ding ding ding!
Is this another reference to piss play like last time?
Release the Epstein files
Surely they will throw him in prison!
Oh hey, another reason Apple fucking sucks. Look at that.
Another reason billionaires fucking suck. They’ll always end up looking out for each other
It’s Apple or Google pretty much here for us Americans. Who do you think we should support? Or do you think we should go back to t9 Nokias?
I want WebOS back.
Or a clean, normal, non-Android phone version of Linux.
You’re on Lemmy and haven’t heard the word of our lord and saviour Linus Torvaldes?
Sadly real linux (not android) is not a good mobile option yet, though is progressing rapidly.
We’ll fuck, I forgot about Dre!
I kid, but Linux is the third option. I’ve been getting to know it lately and am just about ready to switch my main machine.
Gay man gives gift to anti-lgbtq president.
Just proves that you can be gay and still be an absolute parasite billionaire. Fuck your pride apple watch bands.
Class is the only identity that matters to them
Well fuck, Clarence is basically a black white supremacist.
his sugar daddy is a nazi, harlan crow.
No war, but the class war.
Peter thiel, the architect behind Vance and trump and bilderberg and palantir, is also gay.
So gay, he had his former lover killed.
https://www.jezebel.com/death-of-gop-billionaire-peter-thiels-kept-man-is-being-1850259839
https://www.advocate.com/peter-thiel/peter-thiel-model-jeff-thomas
https://theintercept.com/2023/03/23/peter-thiel-jeff-thomas/
vance who is also mostly closeted too. peter thiel defenestrated his model bf.
Thiel showed the way.
Ernst Roehm did it first
