Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIt’s from his own money, not that it makes things any better.
Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIt’s from his own money, not that it makes things any better.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
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.