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 3 weeks ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Brass
Brash
Why has this been normalize?
Trump’s ego.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
brass: “figurative…”
Huh, TIL. That’s a very uncommon usage in my area.
Jarix@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jesus short memories.
Apple phones have been built in by Chinese kids in buildings with suicide nets on them since the beginning.
When the fuck did Apple EVER give a shit about anything other than its value?
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Maybe in the early days when the Apple II was hot on the market but idk even then. Capitalist are going to do their capitalism.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Trump has no idea what he is doing he just want free gifts like the stupid used airplane
Zink@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
At this point it seems like half of them became billionaires just to be the ones harming the children.
jim3692@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
But Apple cares about children. They were the first to run CSAM scans on their cloud storage and devices.
/s
axexrx@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks 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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Not really much of a disguise