“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.

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    Corruption as always. Regular donations ensure that whoever is currently holding power isn’t going to cause [regulatory] problems

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      It’s worse than that. There’s a level of hypocrisy here in that a company marketing itself as inclusive has a CEO who is donating to a far right, authoritarian slush fund. This isn’t business as usual.

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        This isn’t business as usual

        It is. The hypocrisy is part of the business itself. Democrats are in power - you market inclusiveness and donate to democrats. Republicans win - you donate to republicans.

        And in reality - you don’t give a fuck about politics, you just play the rigged game by its twisted rules.

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          I disagree. You don’t see Democrats openly lining up to declare war on minorities. Don’t do the “both sides” thing.

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            You don’t see Democrats openly lining up to declare war on minorities

            Yeah, you see them declaring war on the majority. The result is Trump winning the elections.

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              Republicans also declare war on the majority but their voters aren’t smart enough to realize.