“Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, reports Axios. The donation will be a personal donation directly from Cook rather than a donation from Apple”

I’ll defend Apple as being the least shitty of the big tech giants but I can’t defend this.

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    4 days ago

    Bad gay!

    When you’re a traitor to your own kind for the sake of an unquenchable thirst for profit, you become an enemy to LGBTQ+ folks. Siding with the neo-Nazis only makes it worse.

    Fuck you, Tim Apple

    Steve Jobs would have fired you the instant he thought you might do this. He might’ve been a legendary prick for his entire career, but at least he had a set of ethics and morals.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah, as much as I hate Steve Jobs, he would have given Trump the finger on camera back in 2016 had he been alive.

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        When people shit on Apple - esp Jobs - they forget that it was Jobs who directed the company to fight the FBI to protect our right to on-device encryption. And the FBI backed down because they knew if they went to the Supreme Court, chief Justice, Antonin Scalia, who was a huge supporter of encryption, would guarantee any challengers to that right would lose.

        The political climate is different today, but because of Apple fighting for the right of every person to have on device encryption, we all owe him a debt.

        Yes, Steve Jobs and chief Justice Antonin Scalia were both immeasurable pieces of shit, but some good came from them. And it’s a lasting good that will ensure the rights of individuals to encrypted their own data, possibly for generations.

        Again, I’m not defending either jobs nor Scalia, they were terrible people. But they did do some good.

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      4 days ago

      It’s not just LGBTQ+ folks. Anyone not male, straight, white, christian, republican or natural born is in the firing line.

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          4 days ago

          Which is what makes it particularly disgusting when an LGBTQ-aligned individual commits such horrendous acts.

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      4 days ago

      It really goes to show what kind of times we’re living in when Steve Jobbs is the limbo bar to measure good ethics that everyone today is clearing under.