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Tim Cook Appears Alongside Trump in Re-Election Campaign Ad Shot

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Re: Tim Cook Appears Alongside Trump in Re-Election Campaign Ad Shot

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Post by DavidSJ »

nextstep wrote: post #3

People constantly act so surprised when liberals in the business community are tolerant of fascists, but this is naive and just shows how unfamiliar someone like Gruber is with historical events. The New Yorker just published a great piece about exactly this: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/11/liberalism-acc...

Criticism does not imply surprise.

For if it did, we’d have to assume that you are surprised by behavior you yourself describe as constant. And I don’t believe you are.

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Post by yabadabadoes »

It sounds like fact checked news, but is it?

I would hate to give anyone mentioned in this article an example of the time they were falsely accused of something by an actual fake news source.

https://daringfireball.net/2019/10/correction_regarding_an_e...

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Post by mc32 »

Reason077 wrote: post #8

Perhaps there's some "quid pro quo" going on here? Tim appears in Trump's campaign ad, Trump rolls back trade tariffs that could affect Apple?

The kind of quid pro quo that happened when I gave apple money and I got a phone in return?

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Post by microtherion »

Disappointing. Even beyond the question of malfeasance, there should be at least three policy areas I can think of off the top of my head that Cook should be opposed to:

* Constant disruption of international manufacturing and trade relations with a chaotic assembly of policies (as Paul Krugman has pointed out, each individual policy you can, in principle, adjust to. But policies changing on a weekly level are impossible to plan for: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/opinion/trump-economy.htm...)

* Anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric making it harder to hire from abroad (one can debate whether this benefits US workers—I would argue not—but it's certainly not in Apple's self interest).

* Anti-LGBT policies and rhetoric. It's admirable that Cook consistently avoid making things about himself, but I think you ought to draw the line at collaborating with politicians who question one's very right to exist.

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Post by nabla9 »

There has not been any change in how big tech companies deal with hard decisions. It's just people who ate PR, brand management and empty corporate speak about values getting getting deserved reality check.

Without a doubt Tim Cook is very strongly socially liberal and anti Trump as long as it's does not hurt business opportunities or the future of Apple.

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Post by docdeek »

microtherion wrote: post #17

Disappointing. Even beyond the question of malfeasance, there should be at least three policy areas I can think of off the top of my head that Cook should be opposed to: * Constant disruption of international manufacturing and trade relations with a chaotic assembly of policies (as Paul Krugman has pointed out, each individual policy you can, in principle, adjust to. But policies changing on a weekly level are imposs…

> It's admirable that Cook consistently avoid making things about himself, but I think you ought to draw the line at collaborating with politicians who question one's very right to exist.

Does Trump really question the right of gay men like Cook to exist?

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