Bret CarmichaelAs a company that has long boasted about its commitment to principles, Apple has had a bad several months. It removed ICE Block from the App Store. It let X remain, empowering its users to create child porn, which is apparently “free speech” now. After two American citizens were killed by ICE, Tim Cook responded by attending a special screening of the Melania documentary. It’ll be hard to believe that Apple believes anything it says after all this. When principles mattered, Apple collapsed.
🇨🇦 Maverick ✊🇲🇲🇺🇦🇻🇪🇬🇱@bretcarmichael @Gargron It’s SO cool to dump on these companies for trying to survive until the next election (if there is one). The companies didn’t vote. The American people, their customers, CHOSE this — when it was obvious that this is what was coming. Trump said you won’t have to vote again & orchestrated an insurrection! Still he was still re-elected. You’d think that would be enough to self-disqualify, but no. All of this is on the American people. They chose it, they have to correct it.
TeflonTrout 
he/him@maverick604 @bretcarmichael @Gargron
The american people voted in accordance with what the people who were paid to tell them wanted
(goose chasing man in down coat meme) who pays people to tell other people what to think? Who pays them motherfucker
CEOs and corporations alike - including Apple - paid more money than we peons are asking for as a living wage to buy the election via citizens united.
So while you are correct, you are zoomed in too far.
@TeflonTrout @bretcarmichael @Gargron Paying people to do anything doesn’t guarantee a result. AFAIK, Apple (or Tim Cook) didn’t contribute anything to get Trump elected (although many other companies did, which is a huge problem). Corporations can’t vote. Real people took their real (secret) vote and gave it to a fascist dictator wannabe. Everything else is scapegoating.
@maverick604 Scapegoating would be blaming Apple and Cook for getting Trump elected. Holding them accountable for their conduct thereafter is not scapegoating. Individuals have agency. Corporations have agency.
@bretcarmichael No. The scapegoating is blaming Cook for not standing up to authoritarianism while the American people a) elected the authoritarian and b) do not stand up to the authoritarian themselves.