we're gonna need more luigis.
Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://files.catbox.moe/1fz7mq.mp4
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cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
[deleted]Zink@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Whoa whoa there, slow down. You’re talking crazy. Let’s be reasonable.
The only way to get any sort of reliable data is to let BOTH camps go nuts and see which one gets more attention and results.
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Because the CEOs will biy the new people. Better to off both.
rayyy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You do know that they will buy more? Legislators are a dime a dozen for oligarchs.
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
an army of them is what we need.
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tim Cook, and Apple, is supporting a pedophile. Remember that when you walk into an Apple Store, if you can afford to.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”
So is Google and every major company
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You’re right it’s both now can we fuck off with the “buh buh buh the other company!” bullshit?
Article is about Apple not Google.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
real big yet you participate in society energy
atticus88th@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I bet most of the people here replying in the comments are typing on what helped pay for that gold plated ass kissing device.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Is this a “you criticize society yet you participate in it” thing?
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Ya but I am pretty sure Google has done a lot to help Trump. Any big tech company wants to be on the good side of Trump.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe if we were on reddit, here I really don’t think that’s true.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
I’m typing this on a Lenovo laptop keyboard (V14 series, the plastic casing is just a catastrophe near the lid hinges, though I’ve seen the same with the magnesium casing, it has plastic parts inside).
I’ve also pirated some Apple TV attempt at Foundation episodes, but honestly felt like The Arc. Sci-Fi with some right initial ideas, but ultimately thoroughly idiotic.
In case of Apple TV’s Foundation, I couldn’t help thinking that they were trying to make it “look expensive” and “feel elitarian” similarly to their products, first priority, make it feel “diverse” and in social interactions representing a certain prestigious set of political ideas, second priority, make it feel nuanced and intelligent more than be nuanced and intelligent, third priority.
Honestly even with 90s Apple stuff virtualized I feel something bad, like nausea, I wouldn’t be able to use it probably. Too much visual design flexing.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Nope.
I am typing on a slab of the biggest AI alop search machine with a Captial G
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Don’t forget the $200k gold bar bribe attached to it
MoonRaven@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Gift? You mean bribe.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Yes this is a bribe. Period.
spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Is it a bribe or ransom? Trump is extracting favors by threat.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
OK let me play devil’s advocate for a moment: it’s the only language he speaks. There’s no discreet negotiations. You must stroke his ego.
Of course that’s still corporate cronyism.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yeah the real story here should be hey everyone, look how transparently easy it is to manipulate the President of the United States
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cost of doing business in a country ruled by a dictator who LOVES shiny shit
nuko147@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It is a gift. The same gift that the Noble gave to their King, so they would not get replaced or loose power. It is a Hail to the King move.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Uhh acktchually its sparkling lobbying
13igTyme@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t get why people are NOW saying he’s trying to appease trump. He’s been doing it for years. He was front row at his inauguration right next to other billionaires.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Giving him a literal gold bar (though disguised as a stand) is stereotypical buying El Presidente Banana Republic bullshit.
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I had to look it up: 24 karat is the purest form of gold. So yeah it’s a gold bar 100% lmfao
Demonmariner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cook isn’t handling it like solid gold though (it looks too light). I bet it’s 24 karat gold plated zinc.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Sounds like the US’ chickens coming home to roost. After creating those conditions with their CIA elsewhere for decades.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Release the Epstein files
Sightline@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Surely they will throw him in prison!
plm00@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
This is my own conjecture, but I’m willing to bet that playing nicely with Pres. Trump somehow saves Apple billions in lost revenue to tariffs and legislation because Trump rewards those who are on his good side. I’m also willing to bet Tim Apple is pressured to do this and has a very different attitude behind closed doors. Not that this excuses anybody for their actions, but it’s clear they’re trying to game the system the best they can in the name of “business”.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Keeping our morals behind closed doors is what’s wrong with the world.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Almost like it’s a completely bullshit excuse, like “just following orders”.
Crime isn’t suddenly okay because it’s profitable, no matter how much capitalism wants you to believe it.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s like nuclear weapons
Unless everyone gets rid of them nobody will
Being the only one not to “bend the knee” will just hurt you if everyone else kisses his ass
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You’re probably right.
That doesn’t change my opinion, though, that everyone at Apple can go suck-start their own asshole, and they’ll never receive another cent of my money for as long as I live.
I already wasn’t buying their shit but this has signed and sealed that for the rest of eternity.
forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
I don’t know, I mean if any corporation can eat the loss, it’s apple with their insanely high margins.
I’m more inclined to believe there’s some form of quid pro quo going on behind the scenes.
Besides, I simply cannot picture Tim Apple as any kind of a hero in this picture. No way he got bullied. He’s getting something out of it. You scratch my back. I’ll scratch yours.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Such a disgusting display. Most normal people don’t want anything to do with rapists and child molesters, yet here’s Tim.
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
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.
3abas@lemmy.world 2 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.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
All in plain sight. Brass and shameful. Why has this been normalize? 😡
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?
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”
arin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Trump has no idea what he is doing he just want free gifts like the stupid used airplane
Zink@programming.dev 2 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
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
literal fucking bribery
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s what conservatives crave.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
And I can’t even accept a gift voucher due to anti-bribery rules? Fuck off.
braxy29@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
you can’t even accept a bottle of water while waiting to vote! the rules are different for us and them.
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I guess I’m the only one who sees this as “here little Donald, now play with this and let me do my job”.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I think it’s that and also more and all of it is wrong and disgusting.
liuther9@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Yeah that is not how dictatorship works. He is vending a knee
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s exactly it.
Promise things that you’re doing anyway, use big numbers - hundreds of billions
Give him some shiny crap, he loves it
Praise him
Then he’ll let you go on as usual
qevlarr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bribe. The word you’re looking for
fatalicus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Definitely, as after this it was announced that Apple would not be affected by the 100% semiconductor tariffs.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
This is why when the whole media world rushed to protect him when he came out of the closet as gay was total and utter bullshit. He wasn’t brave and he doesn’t give one hot damn about the gay community clearly.
arin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bribery is now not just legal, but mandatory
july@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
…yahoo.com/…/apple-is-back-on-trumps-good-side-th…
“The move comes after Trump threatened to place a 25% tariff on Apple’s iPhones made overseas and in the face of a potential 100% tariff on semiconductors.”
Pussies
tabular@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do stocks go up from such a cringe-move?
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Apple stock did, and unfortunately it even makes sense why. Considering how self-centered Trump is, and how easily swayed he can be by a literal shiny rock being given to him, this was probably a legitimately good trade for Apple.
They spend some money on a gold brick with some laser-cut glass, and the president of the entire country either gives them preferential treatment, or simply doesn't take any more extreme actions he was planning to take against them.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
In other countries this would be an criminal offense. For example in Austria: if the value of the gift is above 50000€ or not, it’s 6 months - 5 years; if over 300k€ it’s 1-10 years of prison.
thoon@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I fucking hate corporatism
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When you’re rich and powerful as fuck but still bend the knee to a felon rapist pedophile.
All of America’s most “powerful” people are little fucking bitches. Little bitches are calling the shots and representing us to the world. Jesus Christ how pathetic is this country going to get?
Conservatives: Hold my beer.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh hey, another reason Apple fucking sucks. Look at that.
Enkrod@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Emperor Cheesar accepting gold tribute from his feudal vassal
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
~enthusiastic dick sucking noises~
REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Now that’s pathetic. Whatever happened to apple? What was even the latest cool thing they did? Seems almost irrelevant now
aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not buying any more iPhones. I got used to them and just continued buying them. But no more.
Kissaki@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
His name really is Tim Apple now.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Time to boycott Apple just like everybody decided to boycott Target and Amazon for bending over.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Gay man gives gift to anti-lgbtq president.
Just proves that you can be gay and still be an absolute parasite billionaire. Fuck your pride apple watch bands.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Peter thiel, the architect behind Vance and trump and bilderberg and palantir, is also gay.
So gay, he had his former lover killed.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
vance who is also mostly closeted too. peter thiel defenestrated his model bf.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well fuck, Clarence is basically a black white supremacist.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
his sugar daddy is a nazi, harlan crow.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s pretty clear by now that the character Stinkmeaner is based wholly on Clarence Thomas
Maeve@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
Thiel showed the way.
bigfondue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ernst Roehm did it first
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 weeks ago
Class is the only identity that matters to them
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Tim Cook giving off real housen****r vibes
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No war, but the class war.