“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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    As a Bi man there is something that particularly stings about a well known, openly gay CEO funding a man who is hateful towards LGBTQ+ people. I never really liked him nor apple but it is an extra fuck you.

    Being rich is ultimately the disease as it compels him to appeal to power but I hope the last things hears is “Told you I would kill you last”.

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      His in-group is not LGBTQIA+, it is other rich people. The same is true for all of them.

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        The wealthy all seem to understand that class solidarity is more important than any other issue. Why is it taking so long for everyone else to figure that out?

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      Hands down, the most effective punishments for these people at the top is to redistribute their wealth so they have to live like everyone else.

      That is legitimately a fate worse than death in their eyes, which should put things into perspective for the rest of us.

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      There are no real allies in the oligarch class. Temporal alliances or common goals at best. They will (and do) kill for a penny.

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      Peter Thiel is also a gay man, and pulling a lot of these strings behind the scenes.

      It’s oligarchy. Thiel can fuck who ever he wants (and make them disappear when he’s done…) while maintaining political power by sacrificing queer people to the Hour of Hate.

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      Tim cook will never suffer the consequences of anti-gay legislation or the lack of legal protection for gay people.

      Unfortunately, gay people like money too. He cares more about furthering his own personal empire than he does about helping those who have less money than him.

      In the eyes of timmy, the struggles of poor gay people are completely irrelevant to the struggles of rich gay people.

      West was similarly eager to sell out his fans after they made him wealthy so he could suckle on trump’s teat.

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        West was similarly eager to sell out his fans after they made him wealthy so he could suckle on trump’s teat.

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      he is ultra rich, the hateful divide and conquer tactics applied to common people don’t apply to him so he simply does not have any empathy for the matter.