What a way to launch John Crapple.
Lacking any sort of balls to stand up to their great leader.
“it’s not a dictatorship. We just do what he wants because we’re afraid what he’ll do if we don’t,.”
Meanwhile Microsoft - following Trump’s orders, kickstarted and/or rapidly accelerated European digital sovereignity.
Apple, Google and Microsoft are merely support lackeys for the orange pedophile.
Apple, Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, those are some of the pupeteers. The Orange Pedo, The Guardians Of the Pedophiles (GOP) party, and the corporate Fascism Lite Democratic Party (we promise to build one concentration camp fewer than the GOP, so vote for us Dems) are the lackeys.
We have to be careful, because The Democratic Party is not a monolith. Some of the Dems are actually economic populists, which is a good thing.
This doesn’t change the fact that most Dems are just the less angry, the slightly less brutal, and the smilier fascists who don’t literally rape people usually, unlike the GOP who are pro-rape in addition to being against democracy and against The Constitution outright.
Hakeem Jeffries recently met with Jared Kushner to, you know, talk about things and to plot together.
How I wish that everything I wrote above was just a giant hyperbole. But, everything I say here is factual. This timeline has me feeling like I am taking crazy pills every day.
the orange pedo still has 40% support among voters. He’s the symptom, there’s a MUCH wider problem here, something is rotten at the core of the US but it’s not just the US, UK, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Australia etal are all going that way
Apple, Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, those are some of the pupeteers. The Orange Pedo, The Guardians Of the Pedophiles (GOP) party, and the corporate Fascism Lite Democratic Party (we promise to build one concentration camp fewer than the GOP, so vote for us Dems) are the lackeys.
Honestly I think the comparison with the 3rd Reich don’t go far enough. Like with the Nazi-Party the GoP is captured by corporate interests but also the people in power are running their own agenda. It’s a “dance on the volcano”-alliance which each side trying to control and use the other. Corporate interest put the Republicans in power and support them to accrue more money and power and dismantle the state that has regulated them. Meanwhile the MAGA-Movement is promoting corporate interests to enrich themselves, create the appearance of economic growth, ensure corporate backing especially in the media and dismantle the democracy that delegates power to the masses.
Both sides completely disregard how important the state, regulations and democracy are to create the freedom, stability and wealth they have build their power on and which they think they created themselves.
The problem both sides face is that their goals run contrary to each other in the end. The fascists want power over industry, the market and finance while corporate interests suffer under the isolationist politics of fascists. In the end only one side will come out on top and the other side will have been the ones furthering their own removal from power. Like big corporate in the third Reich was brought more and more under state control.
The real winners will be the people sitting at the junction of party politics and corporate power. The Trumps, the Musks, the Thiels and of course the military industrial complex.
In the end of the day they‘re all part of the Epstein class.
Corporations do not stand up to the government. Remember this. Drop any expectation that the coporate world would save you from a bad government.
Corporations control the government in the US. The government is bad because of corporations and neither are going to save you from either.
Exactly right. Dare I say the very right for working people to vote was won by organized labour, so even popular democracy is downstream from labour power. That’s the only real power we have against corporations.
Hey hey hey,
They stand up against unions
They stand up against cheap, green energy
They stand up against human rights
They stand up against good working conditions
They stand up against good and affordable medical care
They stand up against required paid sick leave and maternity leave
They stand up against regulations to not poison people or exploit people quite so much
They stand up against anything that might slightly hurt short term profits.
They pump tens or hundreds of billions at the government to “stand up to them”. Just always, without exception, to pommel the working class and long term into the ground and sacrifice the long term for short term superficial gains.
Except Costco. They did stand up against the DEI bullshit and recently have expressly said they won’t buy and distributed the imported beef. I assume there’s more between those two points in time, I’m just not aware. One of the few out there doing good stuff.
That was an unfortunate read.
how is this relevant to costco standing up to thr government, you can fight the government and the pathetic workers at the same time.
There’s exceptions for sure. I should have said it’s a tendency.
Submit to reality, take no action and apply no pressure.
I dont rate this advice.
Expect nothing, demand it anyway.
They get pretty aggressive at any talk of regulation
That’s incorrect. They stand up to government all the time
Mostly when they face any kind of regulation. Trump is not that kind of government.
Okay
Apple executives have been bending the knee to Trump for years now. If you’re still working for them and think this is the bridge too far, you’re an idiot.
Don’t underestimate the cult. Its users parrot corporate PR scripts verbatim. “Yes we love the walled garden and developer fees. It ensures Apple is doing everything it can to keep me safe.”
We’re talking about the employees here, though. You’d think they’d know better.
This is how secure and private Apple is! One whisper from Trump and they comply, no critical thought, no thinking about users - THAT also apply to all data you trust Apple to guard! No privacy, no safety- Apple.
The Motorola phone with graphene OS can’t come out soon enough.
Normies are locked in the apple ecosystem. Getting android, let alone with Graphene OS would sap their ability to use that said ecosystem.
People really are cooked with the whole blue text thing.
Meanwhile at Alphabet there’s not a soul who can speak
“Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a soul or an Alphabet when you are unable to speak?”
This is the battle they are willing to fight? Your country picks an insane shit head for president and he wants to legally change the name of a lake and you throw a fit? What about fighting to allow ICE detection apps on the App store or standing up to assure your ai is honest and revealing about Trump administration atrocities?
More than one thing can be objectionable.
well apparently they reached their care quota of the day and all of us must follow.
It’s the lowest possible bar for them to tell him that he is being stupid and they won’t even do that. That’s why I am annoyed with them. What we really want is for all the guys in their lifted Dodge trucks with the “shoot your local pedophile” sticker to actually follow through. And then Nuremberg the rest of the fascist administration.
It’s this that shows well that he’s a quasi dictator akin to some laughable figures in the third world. Other examples don’t showcase his pettiness and childlike behavior as well. The pool was also an example for it.
It’s not their problem until it affects them.
Democracy is for the people, but the people vote intentional ignorance.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
How to punish any megacorpo out there. Easy guide for dummies:
- Dont buy their shit
Hurray! You did it!
We all know that wont work cause society is made of sheeple
Ha ha, like people are going to switch en masse to google phones. You know, the company that changes the map first.
Don’t blame people for choices they cannot impact. If you tried to buy stuff only from ethical companies, you’d be broke or just not buy food/stuff.
let me know when a single one of them quits instead of just complaining and going along with it anyway. i won’t be holding my breath.
“i’m just doing my job” is still just claiming to be following orders. looking at you, every single person that continues to work for a health insurance company.
Gee what’s it called when corporations and the government are welded together in a power block that controls everything about the nation? Help me out here guys I forget.
Great Again?
‘How about Corporatism’ - Mussolini
The anti-democratic system is called an Oligarchy!
Were these people working from a remote cave or island for the past year and half?
It’s not like Apple playing friend with Trump started yesterday! Apple has been openly pro-Trump since day 1!
iTrump
Every single employee that was tasked to change Lake Ontario to Lake America could just say no, and quit.
Or are we just following orders?
Well, that’s what Nazi Germany did…
And they managed to get Hitler to eat a bullet. Maybe we’re on to something.
Easy to say when it isn’t your job in this economy, plus a family.
Whatever. They’ll still take the techbro paychecks and look the other way. Let me know when these nerds grow a spine.
They’re not tech bros, if that implies they know anything about tech. They’re members of the owning class who happen to have bought into tech.
Sorry, do you really mean to say that the normal employees at Apple are part of the owning class? Because that’s who the article and the comment you replied to are talking about.
This is just the public things they’ve capitulated on. How many private requests have they received and acted upon?
CoMaps is Apple/Google app store, open source, privacy centric Map app with turn by turn, lots of customization, and also has desktop clients for Linux and iOS.
I switched this when Apple announced ads were coming to maps and have been very happy, some places don’t exist but with an OSM account you can contribute to a better map which is nice
Is there a way to get it to route around current traffic?
Current state that I understand, and am certainly no expert, is that privacy and battery preservation focus have it not designed to constantly ping and check for updates as much as larger as and data-based for-profit systems. Looks like it’s been requested as a feature but who can say whether it gets implemented as it grows. One of its strengths is that it runs fully offline also.
To be sure, despite definite momentum and growth as apple and Google make product-destructive decisions to curry political favor with a fascist, open source programs will need more user growth to have the base where they could have the data points to even consider offering traffic routing as a layer.
