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 2 months ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://files.catbox.moe/1fz7mq.mp4
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cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]Zink@programming.dev 2 months 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 months ago
Because the CEOs will biy the new people. Better to off both.
rayyy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You do know that they will buy more? Legislators are a dime a dozen for oligarchs.
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
an army of them is what we need.
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago
real big yet you participate in society energy
atticus88th@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months ago
Is this a “you criticize society yet you participate in it” thing?
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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 months ago
Maybe if we were on reddit, here I really don’t think that’s true.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months 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 months ago
Nope.
I am typing on a slab of the biggest AI alop search machine with a Captial G
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Don’t forget the $200k gold bar bribe attached to it
MoonRaven@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Gift? You mean bribe.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Yes this is a bribe. Period.
spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Is it a bribe or ransom? Trump is extracting favors by threat.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 months 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 months 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 months ago
Cost of doing business in a country ruled by a dictator who LOVES shiny shit
nuko147@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months ago
Uhh acktchually its sparkling lobbying
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Release the Epstein files
Sightline@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Surely they will throw him in prison!
13igTyme@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months ago
Giving him a literal gold bar (though disguised as a stand) is stereotypical buying El Presidente Banana Republic bullshit.
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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 months 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 months ago
Sounds like the US’ chickens coming home to roost. After creating those conditions with their CIA elsewhere for decades.
plm00@lemmy.ml 2 months 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 months ago
Keeping our morals behind closed doors is what’s wrong with the world.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago
All in plain sight. Brass and shameful. Why has this been normalize? 😡
Jarix@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months 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 months ago
Trump has no idea what he is doing he just want free gifts like the stupid used airplane
Zink@programming.dev 2 months ago
At this point it seems like half of them became billionaires just to be the ones harming the children.
jim3692@discuss.online 2 months 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 months ago
literal fucking bribery
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s what conservatives crave.
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
[deleted]red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I think it’s that and also more and all of it is wrong and disgusting.
liuther9@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Yeah that is not how dictatorship works. He is vending a knee
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 months 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
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
And I can’t even accept a gift voucher due to anti-bribery rules? Fuck off.
braxy29@lemmy.world 2 months ago
you can’t even accept a bottle of water while waiting to vote! the rules are different for us and them.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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.
tabular@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Do stocks go up from such a cringe-move?
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2 months 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.
batdad90@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They sure did!
arin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bribery is now not just legal, but mandatory
qevlarr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bribe. The word you’re looking for
july@leminal.space 2 months 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
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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 2 months ago
I fucking hate corporatism
sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh hey, another reason Apple fucking sucks. Look at that.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Enkrod@feddit.org 2 months ago
Emperor Cheesar accepting gold tribute from his feudal vassal
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 2 months ago
~enthusiastic dick sucking noises~
REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 months 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 months ago
I’m not buying any more iPhones. I got used to them and just continued buying them. But no more.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 2 months ago
His name really is Tim Apple now.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Time to boycott Apple just like everybody decided to boycott Target and Amazon for bending over.
Kissaki@feddit.org 2 months ago
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 2 months 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 months 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 months ago
vance who is also mostly closeted too. peter thiel defenestrated his model bf.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well fuck, Clarence is basically a black white supremacist.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
his sugar daddy is a nazi, harlan crow.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s pretty clear by now that the character Stinkmeaner is based wholly on Clarence Thomas
Maeve@kbin.earth 2 months ago
Thiel showed the way.
bigfondue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ernst Roehm did it first
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 months ago
Class is the only identity that matters to them
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Tim Cook giving off real housen****r vibes
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No war, but the class war.