It's not going to make him remember your actual name, Tim.
You'll always be Tim Apple to him.
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2025
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Time to make him Tim Apple to everyone else, too.
Have inauguration funds always been a thing? Or is this a Trump thing? What’s the purpose?
I can understand campaign funds. But if you’ve won I don’t know if I understand a candidate specific donation after the fact.
It's tribute to the new emperor hoping that he won't go after them. Gotta play nice while they can.
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They're being shaken down. Same as Mark Zuckerberg being summoned to a meeting with Trump and the next day paying $1m to the same fund.
I'm betting these meetings went something like, "You don't want a president as an enemy, do you? Cough up."
And don't think of it as a tax on the rich - it's not going towards the benefit of the American people. It's extortion.
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Tim Cook is hoping to be spared when Trump starts purging gay people.
Hey, he's a billionaire. Being gay is only illegal if you're poor like everything else.
No war, but the class war.
The personal donation part is weird. This sounds like a deliberate attempt to appease the fascists while trying, desperately, to maintain Apple's image.
$1 million seems to be the going fealty price for these people.
Typical CEO tribute to the newly crowned King of the United States for some tariff exemptions.
iClass-traitor.
He's the CEO of Apple, my guy. He's serving his class
That's probably 2% of their holiday bonus!
It's from his own money, not that it makes things any better.
Yes, not really better at all. These donations are all symbols, not meaningful except as a show of obeisance. So we should interpret it along the same symbolic parameters.
It's being framed as a personal donation because Cook is acquiescing to Trump's pending authoritarian takeover, but wants plausible deniability that that imputes to Apple. But since Tim Cook is the one acquiescing and he leads Apple, it's indistinguishable from the same thing. It carries the same message: Apple won't get in your way, do what you will.
What a little bitch..
You best start believing in technofeudal distopias, you're living in one.
Corruption as always. Regular donations ensure that whoever is currently holding power isn't going to cause [regulatory] problems
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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Can't wait for the leopard to eat this face.
Fuck that. Not cool.
corporations will always prioritize tax cuts and deregulation