I’m sick of powerful people / companies kissing his ass, but I can’t deny that this is a smart move for getting out from under his disgusting gaze.
Apple speaks Trump fluently.
Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue.
Submitted 8 hours ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to technology@lemmy.world
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Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Hey, uh, what the fuck? Why the fuck are companies giving the President of the United States Golden statues like he’s some sort of Middle Eastern Dictator?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Because he’s some sort of middle eastern dictator. Figurehead of a religion of intolerance and hatred, concerned almost entirely with wealth derived from fossil fuels, utterly irredeemable personality.
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
Because he might not be “Middle Eastern” or “Dictator” but he behaves exactly like “some sort of Middle Eastern Dictator”.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
To ask for “favors” later. Clearly money sways him, he’s imposing tariffs on Brazil because “they’ve never been good to us”, meaning “they don’t give USA enough money”. It’s all aboutoney and how he can get it into him and his pedo friends pockets.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Honestly, I can’t say I blame them, if it works.
lemmyknow@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
Relax, guy
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
Because he’s pretty much that. Idk about the middle eastern part (why did you even include that phrase, are you racist?), but he’s definitely a dictator.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s a reference to South Park’s S27E01 episode.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Tim Cook is a piece of shit.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
any relation to Tim Apple?
quantumcrop@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
Has anyone seen Tim Cook and Bono in the same room?
lemmyknow@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
Well, idk. But Apple gave away U2 albums or whatever, dindey?
Plus, last I heard, Bono was dethroned as the record holder by some guy in a small city in, like, Colorado or something
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 8 hours ago
Let Apple additionally throw some underage girls for him to rape so the deal lasts.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Honestly, if it pushes that heart rate up I might be okay with it.
Kill him, girls. Serve your country.
332@feddit.nu 6 hours ago
Absolutely pathetic Tim. Pathetic.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
That’s one of the nicer participation trophies I’ve seen
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 hours ago
On the face of it, this falls foul of numerous anti-bribery laws and regulations of the sort employees of companies such as Apple are required to do tests on annually. (If you ever so much as worked as a mail clerk at a large company, you will have clicked through multiple-choice tests driving home that, should you somehow find yourself in a position of trading a bottle of champagne or some Superbowl tickets for a multi-million-dollar contract in some exotic foreign land, that sort of thing is absolutely not on, and will cost you your job if not federal prison time.)
On the other hand, those rules were drafted back when America saw itself as qualitatively above the sordid corruption that less fortunate nations were mired in. Those days are as far gone as the drag clubs of Weimar Berlin.
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 5 hours ago
The rules only apply to low paid employees. You bet your ass a regular federal employee could still be fired for receiving a free lunch.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
A few nice words and a $15 shiny object is all you need to curry favour with the current President.
Can someone ask him for free college education and healthcare in America, presenting him a golden stethoscope or golden book-shaped award?
Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Just for this everyone should reconsider buying any Apple products. Tim Apple is such a disgusting and nasty person, and then he started licking the predators ass. Fuck him and fuck American companies.
Sneptaur@pawb.social 7 hours ago
This would be a great idea if literally any other tech company were even slightly above such behavior. This is just what Capitalism is all about, baby. Corruption. Get used to it, because this isn’t changing until Americans revolt (culturally, violently, politically, economically? who knows) and that likely isn’t happening with this complacent and socially isolated of a populace
the_q@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Keep buying your Apple products, guys.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Since when did the word “statue” now also mean “award”?
teft@piefed.social 7 hours ago
simplejack@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Commemorative disk?
Jozav@lemmy.world [bot] 8 hours ago
suck-up
Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 hours ago
Tim Apple should try to ‘Think Different’
ch00f@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I personally vote for CEOs publicly embarrassing themselves in more and more degrading ways.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Lol! Trump wants a thing. They don’t want to do it. So, they toss him something shiny to make him forget the thing he wanted?
hansolo@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
Yeah.
It fucken worked, didn’t it?
echodot@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
It’s like when I want to get my cats in from outside. They don’t want to come in of course so I have to shake it back of treats, when they come in they give them like five even though clearly they would like the entire packet.
They never learn.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Not stupid if it works. Something else is.
hemmes@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
They really know their audience.