Kiss the ring
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025
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He doesn't want to be left behind, everyone else is doing it, the King will be mad at you if you're the outlier.
Or the mad king will feel insulted.
Tim Apple is a snake. He is a morally bankrupt person. He does back room deals with China and dinner deals with Trump in order to sell more iphones.
How the fuck it's any of that legal?
Compared to what elon did, this doesn't even look that bad. When you got money, everything is legal.
I was including Elon too, the 'any' includes political 'donations' through PACs and all of that shit too.
Because American democracy, is not real and this is a scientifically proven fact. https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/
“The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.” Gilens & Page, Perspectives in Politics
They even made a video about it https://youtu.be/5tu32CCA_Ig
And I found this, but I can't read it.
Why Estimates of the Impact of Public Opinion on Public Policy Are Too High: Empirical and Theoretical Implications -Paul Burstein
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3844500
Do you think all of this is amplified by state actors like Russia and the Saudis?
Paying a tribute to the feudal lord
Shocker.