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   Cabel Sasser (cabel@social.panic.com)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 13:05:10 JST Cabel Sasser

   • If you work at Apple, can you really keep working there in good conscience after Tim Cook’s $1M payola to Trump?
   • Or do you just tell yourself it’s not your problem, and just the cost of doing business in America? Which, maybe it is?
   • But… is it? Or is it the cost of running a business as big as Apple is… with a president as self-serving as Trump?
   • Should a business even *be* as big as Apple?
   • How much did Tim Cook donate to Biden’s inaugural fund?

   I’m left with lots of questions.

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     Cabel Sasser (cabel@social.panic.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 09:14:11 JST Cabel Sasser

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     (Re: Tim Cook donating to Biden’s inaugural committee, I tried to do some digging. He's not mentioned in any articles I could find[1], but he is present on the donor list[2], although they say he’s from Michigan? Is it a different Tim Cook?)

     [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/us/politics/technology-companies-biden-inaugural-donors.html

     [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210128073802/https://bideninaugural.org/brqrthk6dhdn94xx/

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Cabel Sasser (cabel@social.panic.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 09:14:11 JST Cabel Sasser

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     • Daniel

     Update: it was, in fact, a different Tim Cook who donated to Biden's inaugural fund[1]. 😌 I wonder how Tim would answer the question: “why are you donating to this one, but didn’t donate to the last one?”. That’d be fascinating to see.

     (Also: I really, truly empathize with anyone who can’t just up and leave a job for purely ethical reasons — money is complicated and life situations even more so. There are no easy answers in life.)

     [1] https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?cand=&cycle=2020&employ=&jurisdiction=&name=Tim+Cook&occupation=&state=MI&type=&zip= — via @daniel