cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23858632

“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.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    3 days ago

    No I’m just repating the hypocrisy in hope that somebody cares about it too.

    I mean when I grew up America was the bastion of Democracy, the home of the free and something to aspire to. I guess in just in an extended period of mourning.

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      2 days ago

      You are grieving for something that never really existed. If it exists and we are bold enough, then it exists in the future but you’ll have to trade your grief for hope, and an aluminium baseball bat.

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      3 days ago

      Hate to shatter that ideal more, but the US has never been a bastion of democracy. The electoral college has existed since the founding, women have only been able to vote since 1920, and black folks have only fully been enfranchised since 1965. Even so, the right has been working to disenfranchise black and poor folks ever since.

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        2 days ago

        I know, but the idea itself is attractive. Just like the people that want America great again, I don’t agree with their ‘philosophy’ (that’s stretching the word) but I kind of understand the sentiment.