All in plain sight. Brass and shameful. Why has this been normalize? 😡
Honestly I am pretty sure this is a bribe to exempt Apple from tariffs. Billionaires care more about their profit than children being harm. It’s the sad truth.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Brass
Brash
Why has this been normalize?
Trump’s ego.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 59 minutes ago
Brass
Brash
No, I mean brass: “figurative. Taken as a type of insensibility to shame: hence, Effrontery, impudence, unblushingness.” (DEFINED)
Brash would not have been appropriate (defined as “self-assertive in a rude, noisy, or overbearing way”). Tim was not rude, noisy or overbearing, but he was absolutely shameless!
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
“Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”
Xatolos@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
Apple’s Tim Cook donated $1 million personally to Trump. Not Apple Inc, Tim Cook. And now he’s donating this as well. These are not the same.
arin@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Trump has no idea what he is doing he just want free gifts like the stupid used airplane
Zink@programming.dev 8 hours ago
At this point it seems like half of them became billionaires just to be the ones harming the children.
axexrx@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
He pretty much says it right, here’s a 24k gold bar… to hold the plaque with your name on it.
3abas@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It’s a bribe in disguise. It’s a tribute and a public spectacle of loyalty. And the top voted comment thinks Tim is playing 4d chess with Trump…
Nothing will improve until these people are eliminated from their positions of power. Stop giving Apple your money.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
Not really much of a disguise
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 9 hours ago
It’s all public spectacles. These people are there not for the money - they are there to make a point, that being that their ideas of authority are what we all must obey.
Preventive obedience, lack of mandate borders, authority not requiring justification, a demand for justification being itself disobedience, implicit trust to authority, and so on.
These are all people who’d be not very respected or listened to in any normal kind of group. They dreamed of getting to a position where they will be, due to hierarchy. And that’s an abuse of any system, so they are hostile to any immunity mechanisms detecting and fixing such an abuse.
So the whole point is in them taking power and showing us all that it’s their rule and their time and it works like some thief feudalism with spectacles of loyalty, spectacles of cruelty, spectacles of stealing and getting away with it and demonstrative abuse of any legal principle.
I respect Cato institute people very much, they somehow manage to say this same thing without my emotion in their various materials.