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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 21 points 9 hours ago

This might be one of the few times I think Donald Trump is actually telling the truth. I 100% believe Tim Cook is calling him and begging for shit.

[–] Furball@sh.itjust.works 44 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Don’t you mean Tim Apple

[–] wurstgulasch3000@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Not to be confused with Tim Epic

[–] Xyre@lemmus.org 19 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

No, this was Tim the Cook.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I heard from Tim Cook that Kamala never worked at McDonald's ever, and he would know!

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 24 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Does Tim Cook know about this call?

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 19 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

JD Vance is literally Silicon Valley's candidate, sponsored by PayPal's Peter Thiel, and likely to take over if Trump gets into office.

It's absolutely something Apple's head would do. They're not exactly know for their morality. FoxxConn workers can tell you that as they roll out of the suicide nets.

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 4 points 3 hours ago

Just so you know, Foxconn supplies almost every electronics manufacturer. Your phone? Foxconn. Your TV? Foxconn. Your PC? Foxconn. Your radio in the kitchen? Foxconn. Doesn’t matter which name is on the outside.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 11 hours ago

I hate this world sometimes.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world -1 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

JD Vance is the tech bro VC candidate. There’s a huge difference between Tim Cook and 90s boom era tech bros. Apple’s success doesn’t give a fuck about middle-school mentality masculinity. Not every tech company is so insecure.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"My billionaire is a good one though!"

I'll never understand people who try to step in and defend do-nothing billionaires - they're all morality free nihilists who value profit above all else. They're all ruthless.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

So is Trump/Vance good for business? For all I know that's true of a few businesses only, e.g. fossil fuels are an obvious one. But to Apple, IRA-enabled investment opportunities may be more relevant than availability of fossil fuels.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

If you're talking about 90s apple, I hate to break it to you, but that's exactly who tech bros cosplay as.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago

It's possible Trump is lying. But there is a depressingly high chance that this call (or one like it) did actually happen. Rich fucks do be making insane phone calls all the time. Just look up Bill Ackman's long reputation of putting Columbia administrative heads, NY/DC newspaper editors, and random ranking congresspeople on blast, every time he gets a bug up his ass about Woke.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 29 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

So, why should we care?

“He [Cook] said something that was interesting,” Trump said. “He said they’re using that to run their enterprise, meaning Europe is their enterprise. “I said, ‘That’s a lot... But Tim, I got to get elected first, but I’m not going to let them take advantage of our companies — that won’t, you know, be happening.’”

suure... but hey, when they don't pay, I guess its fine to the Orange man, that Cuck won't be able to sell in Europe, eh?

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

"Tim said the EU is an enterprise, so I said; Tim, you're going to have to pay the service fees if you want to get me into office! That's how our enterprise works!"

What a joke, even when Trump is pretending to be, or imagining himself as a defender of democracy he's actually just expressing class-based corruption and running his politics as a pay-for-play service exclusive to billionaires and their companies.

I guess Elon Musk paid so much he got to do a VIP on stage appearance. A complete joke, total corruption. So bad he doesn't even recognise it in what he's saying.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

I guess Elon Musk paid so much he got to do a VIP on stage appearance.

Donald Trump realized how easy it is to extort business dorks by promising them something vaguely beneficial in the future for a wad of cash today. And now he's racking it in as fast as he can make the calls.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 20 points 13 hours ago

Tim Cook: "I never spoke to him or said anything of that sort."

Probably

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 11 points 12 hours ago

Tim Cook, Apple, and Trump can all get fucked.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Europe as an enterprise, that sounds a lot like the Dutch version of SovCit nonsense, claiming that NL is not a country/kingdom because the government fled to the UK in WW2 and it is since then a subsidiary of the US.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That does sound just like SovCit. Thanks for the introduction to the Dutch version!

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Here’s a recent overview post by journalist Chris Klomp who follows this movement closely, it’s in Dutch but DeepL can help with that: https://chrisklomp.nl/youri-plate-een-kwaadaardig-circus-met-louter-clowns/

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 5 points 12 hours ago

He talking about Tim Apple?