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“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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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago

Whoa, he got the rich to pay taxes.
Not government taxes tho.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He's totally not doing it to get Trumpf to like him. He's gonna get his own imaginary political role.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This isn't even remotely surprising. Apple has been a shitty company for well over a decade.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

And before it wasn't?

[–] billbasher@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I can’t help but wonder if this is to take the news spotlight away from the Siri recording scandal that just popped up

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A rich white cis gay man backstabbing trans people?

This never happens, I'm shocked!

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[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

God neoliberals are pathetic.

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

It's less than .05% of his worth. It's like us dropping pocket change in the Red Cross bucket and he'll make more than that in profit from changes the bribe paid for from the great cheetoh.

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