Imagine prostrating yourself to Trump in this embarrassing way. Sheesh.
Smells like an opportunity to cause Apple brand damage.
Tim Cuck
Tim Apple has turned into such a disappointing bootlicker.
I don’t get why people are NOW saying he’s trying to appease trump. He’s been doing it for years. He was front row at his inauguration right next to other billionaires.
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.
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.
It must be nice to be so rich that you can fit an entire living room set in your walk-in closet.
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
his sugar daddy is a nazi, harlan crow.
Thiel showed the way.
Ernst Roehm did it first
Class is the only identity that matters to them
This couldn’t be more true, class war over any war.
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No war, but the class war.
And I can’t even accept a gift voucher due to anti-bribery rules? Fuck off.
Giving him a literal gold bar (though disguised as a stand) is stereotypical buying El Presidente in a Banana Republic bullshit.
I had to look it up: 24 karat is the purest form of gold. So yeah it’s a gold bar 100% lmfao
Cook isn’t handling it like solid gold though (it looks too light). I bet it’s 24 karat gold plated zinc.
You might be right. Looks light indeed for true gold.
Sounds like the US’ chickens coming home to roost. After creating those conditions with their CIA elsewhere for decades.
Bribe. The word you’re looking for
Not a “gift”. It was a BRIBE !!
Gift? You mean bribe.
Yes this is a bribe. Period.
Is it a bribe or ransom? Trump is extracting favors by threat.
More bribe. Ransom is “Do X or I do Y”. Bribe is “If I do X, you will do Y”.
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
Cost of doing business in a country ruled by a dictator who LOVES shiny shit
Uhh acktchually its sparkling lobbying
It is a gift. The same gift that the Noble gave to their King, so they would not get replaced or lose power. It is a Hail to the King move.
literal fucking bribery
It’s what conservatives crave.
When you’re rich and powerful as fuck but still bend the knee to a felon rapist pedophile.
All of America’s most “powerful” people are little fucking bitches. Little bitches are calling the shots and representing us to the world. Jesus Christ how pathetic is this country going to get?
Conservatives: Hold my beer.
Tim Cook, and Apple, is supporting a pedophile. Remember that when you walk into an Apple Store, if you can afford to.
“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.
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. 😀
On nerdy sites like Lemmy people tend to fawn over Google and they can do no wrong
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On nerdy sites like Lemmy people tend to fawn over Google and they can do no wrong
Uhhhh… What. My experience has been the literal opposite. People here hate Google
And still rock an Android phone proudly
I don’t know about “proudly.” Preferred to Apple? Sure.
Simping the worlds largest ad company is weird to me
But that’s just me 🤷🏻♂️
That may have been true a few years ago but not anymore. Google gets lots of hate on Lemmy, Reddit, and various other tech sites.
I buy pixel phones, because out of the sea of bullshit, it’s at least capable of being rooted/flash to a new os. The PinePhone sadly isn’t ready.
I don’t use apple for the same reason I don’t use fisher price as an adult. You are free to use your technology made for babies that’s beside the point. The point is that the article in discussion is about Tim Cook and Apple providing a recent bribe to Trump.
Your comment is providing no value. You are attempting whataboutism and really shows the type of person you are more than anything.
To be clear, if googl was caught bribing and someone said “buh buh buh Apple!” Id be saying the same thing. Stop sucking dick like they owe you something to take a side.
When Google bribes Trump with a 24k gold gift let’s discuss Google then ok?
So if it’s only an 18k carat gift it’s just fine? Because Google are the good guys
Is the article about Google or Apple? Really easy question for you.
real big yet you participate in society energy
I bet most of the people here replying in the comments are typing on what helped pay for that gold plated ass kissing device.
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.
To any & all Android users: you should install Grayjay. But don’t do it from the Play Store because that’s the stupid nerfed version.
I bet you’re using electricity from the power grid!
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.
With the degree of information, and capacity to profile individuals at scale and model complex systems, Google likely knew Trump would be in the white house long before anyone else. They fired up the bribery train early on.
Exactly, they all are sucking that orange teet now.
Nope.
I am typing on a slab of the biggest AI alop search machine with a capital 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.
Maybe if we were on reddit, here I really don’t think that’s true.
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we’re gonna need more luigis.
I understood this reference! Probably because I, too, am a dinosaur.
i loved that show. ended so dark
Worst part was we all knew the ending but didn’t see it coming
I’ve only seen a fraction. Did it end with a global environmental catastrophe? That was ignored because of profit?
giant meteor
Ready player 2!
🎮🎮
an army of them is what we need.
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Whoa whoa there, slow down. You’re talking crazy. Let’s be reasonable.
The only way to get any sort of reliable data is to let BOTH camps go nuts and see which one gets more attention and results.
Wasting effort and resources on either will bring less results.
Because the CEOs will biy the new people. Better to off both.
Republicans don’t have the spine to run at risk of death, and elections only happen every two years meaning until then DNC would have the first real supermajority since 1979.
Tax them into the dirt, then there will never be more billionaires.
Do you think neoliberals would do that?
Do you think liberal is an insult? Oh, I’m so sorry that promoting human rights inconveniences you.
You’re misunderstanding. I said neoliberal for a reason. I wouldn’t call either party liberal, and the issue I have is labeling them as such.
Right okay, the parties fighting for liberty, fairness, and true democracy aren’t liberals they’re “neoliberal”. Whatever that means.
You do know that they will buy more? Legislators are a dime a dozen for oligarchs.
