Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration fund, reports Axios. The donation will be a personal donation...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23858632

“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.

    • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
      17·
      3 months ago

      Compared to what elon did, this doesn’t even look that bad. When you got money, everything is legal.

      • Akasazh@feddit.nl
        14·
        3 months ago

        I was including Elon too, the ‘any’ includes political ‘donations’ through PACs and all of that shit too.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 months ago

      Because American democracy, is not real and this is a scientifically proven fact. https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/

      “The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.” Gilens & Page, Perspectives in Politics

      They even made a video about it https://youtu.be/5tu32CCA_Ig

      And I found this, but I can’t read it.

      Why Estimates of the Impact of Public Opinion on Public Policy Are Too High: Empirical and Theoretical Implications -Paul Burstein

      https://www.jstor.org/stable/3844500

      Do you think all of this is amplified by state actors like Russia and the Saudis?