Having said that, let me play devil's advocate for a second.
A very simple point: we still have to live with these people. They're our neighbors, our families, "friends" and co-workers. Is it wise to hate them all forever? We still have to live with them, we can't "simply kill" every Republican in the country (as many magas would like for all the Democrats) as it's dozens of millions
These people are not victims, but they have been misled brainwashed by literally decades of Republican propaganda through Fox News and others. The US government allowed that. For decades. Fox News suing to be able to lie as a news organization should never have passed, but it did. Citizens United effectively ended your democracy, it should never have passed. But it did.
I think this is like the Stanford prison experiment. Some became prisoners, others guards, but all played by the rules set by those in control
I think our hatred should be reserved for those that really caused all this shit, not your every day maga. Republican law makers (on federal, state, and local levels) caused this. Billionaires funded all of this for their own gains. Those are the ones that should be locked up forever, those are the real Nazis. Take ALL possessions and money away from all billionaires and the setup a hard cap of 1-10 million dollars, anyone having a networh of over that gets 100% tax on their income untill they're below again
No more millionaires no more people with the single handed power to fuck over a country for their own gains
Then require news organizations and journalists to always be truthful, by law. Fund them from an independent foundation that only cares about factual news
Then you'll have to rebuild your democracy from the ground up. American elections are a shit show, and have been since WWII. Get a parliamentary democracy, get rid of your presidents
Hell, while at it, let's end super powers. Right now is a great time for that. Russia is on its last legs before death, the US is shooting itself in the face multi times now, and China is about to feel the real force of the demographics freight train hat is about to hit it. Split all super powers up into small states, te US included, with it's 50 states. Form a United nations with teeth that can smack any non democratic government down as replace it with democracy world wide.
Sounds like a pipe dream? Maybe, but its better than eternal hate
Now I really wonder how maga will react... This is one of their core beliefs and either cheeto goes full "rules for thee but not for mer" for the white christians, or he might literally find himself without a base at all
Once this is over, and it will be over one day, what is going to happen with all these enablers that supported and protected trump, allowed him to continue his daily crimes and spread of hatred and violence, and just generally fucking up the world...?
Are we going to allow a "person" like this to just walk freely after being co-responsible for all the death and destruction that they caused?
Many workers claimed hypocrisy between Apple’s longtime professed commitment to progressive values and causes and the extent to which its CEO has cozied up to the Trump administration.
I'm rather amazed with comments like these
Did any of you really actually believe that the Apple CEO's (any of them) actually gave a single fuck about these "charitable" subjects? Did you really actually believe that time cook could give a single shit about black History month or LGBT rights?
Fuck, he won't even give a single shit about the trump administration or fascism for that matter. It's all a means to an end, and the goal justifies the means.
There is one single thing that Tim cook, other apple CEO's, and just any CEO in general cares about:
Money. Lots and lots of money
So far, pretending to be a progressive company got Apple loads of addicts that for some unexplained reason can't seem to go without the company.
Now the trump admin came in and they saw where the wind was blowing. More moneys now requires Apple to cost up to the fascist government? Then we do that! The goal justifies the means.
I fucking guarantee you that if Apple can make more money by throwing their users under a figurative or even a litteral bus, Apple will do so. Apple will do whatever the fuck tum cook wants and Tim cook wants money
And if it wasn't clear: This isn't exclusive to Apple, this applies to prettyuch every big company out there. Even if you find that unicorn CEO that actually wants to make the world better, at some point he will quit (or get fired) and move on and you'll have a different CEO who I fucking guarantee you, will not feel the same about peaky things like Richard and privacy.
So with all that in mind, how could you be so fucking stupid as to believe that apple was one of the good guys, are you still so fucking stupid to believe this of any other company, and have you now finally learned your lesson?
Yeah yeah Billy, I know you got cancer, but Mr. Cook wants a new gold plated swimming pool. You wouldn't deprive poor Timmie from his swimming pool, now would you Billy? Just hand in those life saving medications you got there, and give apple it's fair share, it's the right thing to do.
The guy definitely is flawed, he did a whole lot of shitty things and in any European country he would have never made it to any position with power.
Having said that: comparing him to Trump is disingenuous at best. The guy is thoughtful and generally respectful and can carry a conversation, he did not go full Gestapo on Americans, he didn't alienate every ally the US had, he didn't go to try and destroy the country and I could go on.
All US presidents since WWII have been shite, but I'd say Obama probably has been the best president of the US since WWII
Can we put up rules like accounts must first be x amount of days old with comments and maybe some upvotes or something before they can start posting articles?
This is the country that wants to have the soccer world cup. Who in their right mind would go watch that? Watch soccer, get arrested and sent to a concentration camp.
Or what about the players?
I actually seriously expect trump to just order the arrest all competing teams for immigration reasons, and then just declare the US winner because there is nobody left to compete.
Well yeah, but back them most people were bit ever aware of what fascism can and will do
Now we know