Another FYI, the editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post quit her job because the Bezos owned Post wouldn't publish a cartoon criticizing these kinds of donations.
Get over it guys, election is done and we only got 1 vote. It’s business that Timmy and other Tech giants contributed, you call it what it is but every company is doing it.
Appreciate this article.
Your own mother wouldn’t accept “everybody is doing it” as justification for bad behavior, and your mother was right.
It never ceases to amaze me that the people claiming that they are tired of bias are the same ones that get their news from the most partisan outlets on the planet. But maybe that's just a coincidence.
It's even more hilarious when words like "controversial" aren't allowed because it suggests the president might be bad, even though controversy isn't inherently bad. Steve Jobs was a controversial figure. Even Joe Biden was a controversial president. If you are threatened by everything you read because of some perceived slight due to a misunderstanding of the English language, then that's on you, dear reader.
I make my opinions known on the internet and in forums because I'm not afraid of them or embarrassed by them. But I can tell you that what I wrote was fair and balanced. If you're offended by facts, then stop going to websites that present facts.
It never ceases to amaze me that the people claiming that they are tired of bias are the same ones that get their news from the most partisan outlets on the planet. But maybe that's just a coincidence.
It's even more hilarious when words like "controversial" aren't allowed because it suggests the president might be bad, even though controversy isn't inherently bad. Steve Jobs was a controversial figure. Even Joe Biden was a controversial president. If you are threatened by everything you read because of some perceived slight due to a misunderstanding of the English language, then that's on you, dear reader.
I make my opinions known on the internet and in forums because I'm not afraid of them or embarrassed by them. But I can tell you that what I wrote was fair and balanced. If you're offended by facts, then stop going to websites that present facts.
There is a similar phenomenon in Venn diagram overlap of the people who will tell entertainers with whom they disagree to shut up about politics and stick to entertaining and the people who vote to elect otherwise unqualified entertainers to public office because they agree with their political opinions.
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There is also a fascinating Venn diagram overlap of the circle of those who claim that Trump getting 49.8% of the popular vote makes him an uncontroversial consensus, and the circle of those who claim that 99+% of expert scientific agreement on anthropogenic climate change is somehow highly controversial and open to endless challenge.
$1 million of his personal money to support a man who attacked democracy itself. Absolutely gross.
Goes to show, again and again, that American capitalism is what matters and nothing else. The rest is a thin layer of HR & marketing bs. Things like “privacy first” or “inclusivity” are all just checkboxes on a form.
Sure, keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer, but this is straight up corruption. The only radon why it’s personal money is that this way it’s a “legal’ transaction. Tim knows it’s pocket money for him which will pay dividend on a corporate level, and therefore his share valuation.
Gross. America is the most corrupt country in the world. Yuck.
Tim Cook did the same thing with Biden. Also, why did Wesley coin the President-Elect as controversial? He won in an electoral college landslide and also won the popular vote by over 4 million votes. I’d say the country clearly stated who they wanted. No controversy here folks. Maybe let’s just stick with tech news and not show our biased political views in a tech article.
He's controversial not because he won, but because of who he is and what he believes. There's nothing biased or even political about that. The mountain of lawsuits, assault claims, overt racism, sexism, and indignation for any country that isn't the United States makes him a controversial president.
Saying someone is controversial isn't an insult or attack. It's a simple fact.
That’s your opinion. Many of us believe it was Biden, his family, business dealings, and policies that are controversial in addition to the law fare waged against the former and future President.
We appreciate the articles, but perhaps they can be a little more universal instead than of obviously creating a dividing line.
Literally anyone can be labeled controversial by anyone who disagrees with them. Doesn’t make it so.
When the majority of the country approves of the guy enough to make him president again, it’s not what believes or stands for that’s controversial. Just the facts.
I don't know what to say except words have meaning and you don't have to read our website. It's not biased to call him controversial, but if that hurts your feelings then find an article that will lie and make you feel better I guess.
Words do have meaning. That was my point. Your opinion about the president is your opinion. You are entitled to it, but your need to shoehorn your opinion everywhere possible when necessary - to the point where you are actively encouraging longtime website members (who have been with the site longer than yourself) to go elsewhere is antithetical to any business goal in addtiion to just being rude. Doesn't seem very professional. And that comment in bold proves it. Nowhere did I display emotion. I simply stated facts. If that hurts your feelings, maybe you should be doing something else.
Tim Cook did the same thing with Biden. Also, why did Wesley coin the President-Elect as controversial? He won in an electoral college landslide and also won the popular vote by over 4 million votes. I’d say the country clearly stated who they wanted. No controversy here folks. Maybe let’s just stick with tech news and not show our biased political views in a tech article.
He's controversial not because he won, but because of who he is and what he believes. There's nothing biased or even political about that. The mountain of lawsuits, assault claims, overt racism, sexism, and indignation for any country that isn't the United States makes him a controversial president.
Saying someone is controversial isn't an insult or attack. It's a simple fact.
That’s your opinion. Many of us believe it was Biden, his family, business dealings, and policies that are controversial in addition to the law fare waged against the former and future President.
We appreciate the articles, but perhaps they can be a little more universal instead than of obviously creating a dividing line.
Literally anyone can be labeled controversial by anyone who disagrees with them. Doesn’t make it so.
When the majority of the country approves of the guy enough to make him president again, it’s not what believes or stands for that’s controversial. Just the facts.
I don't know what to say except words have meaning and you don't have to read our website. It's not biased to call him controversial, but if that hurts your feelings then find an article that will lie and make you feel better I guess.
Words do have meaning. That was my point. Your opinion about the president is your opinion. You are entitled to it, but your need to shoehorn your opinion everywhere possible when necessary - to the point where you are actively encouraging longtime website members (who have been with the site longer than yourself) to go elsewhere is antithetical to any business goal in addtiion to just being rude. Doesn't seem very professional. And that comment in bold proves it. Nowhere did I display emotion. I simply stated facts. If that hurts your feelings, maybe you should be doing something else.
Hilarious how the poster proves the author's point by seeing controversy in the article that points out how Trump is controversial. Doubly hilarious with the claim "I simply stated facts" when what was stated was a demonstrably false opinion.
And not all readers - "longtime" or not - will feel at home in all forums. Some forums may actually welcome those who are Moon-landing deniers, believers in Bigfoot, think that injecting bleach will cure Covid, wear white hoods and robes on the weekends, believe in Pizzagate/Jade Helm/JFK Jr's return, or pursue authoritarianism over democracy, etc. There are plenty of places where such nonsense is welcomed and even encouraged. I hope Apple Insider doesn't become one of those forums.
BTW - For reference:
controversial| ˌkäntrəˈvərsēəl, ˌkäntrəˈvərSH(ə)l | adjective giving rise or likely to give rise to public disagreement
Tim Cook did the same thing with Biden. Also, why did Wesley coin the President-Elect as controversial? He won in an electoral college landslide and also won the popular vote by over 4 million votes. I’d say the country clearly stated who they wanted. No controversy here folks. Maybe let’s just stick with tech news and not show our biased political views in a tech article.
He's controversial not because he won, but because of who he is and what he believes. There's nothing biased or even political about that. The mountain of lawsuits, assault claims, overt racism, sexism, and indignation for any country that isn't the United States makes him a controversial president.
Saying someone is controversial isn't an insult or attack. It's a simple fact.
That’s your opinion. Many of us believe it was Biden, his family, business dealings, and policies that are controversial in addition to the law fare waged against the former and future President.
We appreciate the articles, but perhaps they can be a little more universal instead than of obviously creating a dividing line.
Literally anyone can be labeled controversial by anyone who disagrees with them. Doesn’t make it so.
When the majority of the country approves of the guy enough to make him president again, it’s not what believes or stands for that’s controversial. Just the facts.
I don't know what to say except words have meaning and you don't have to read our website. It's not biased to call him controversial, but if that hurts your feelings then find an article that will lie and make you feel better I guess.
Words do have meaning. That was my point. Your opinion about the president is your opinion. You are entitled to it, but your need to shoehorn your opinion everywhere possible when necessary - to the point where you are actively encouraging longtime website members (who have been with the site longer than yourself) to go elsewhere is antithetical to any business goal in addtiion to just being rude. Doesn't seem very professional. And that comment in bold proves it. Nowhere did I display emotion. I simply stated facts. If that hurts your feelings, maybe you should be doing something else.
Tim Cook did the same thing with Biden. Also, why did Wesley coin the President-Elect as controversial? He won in an electoral college landslide and also won the popular vote by over 4 million votes. I’d say the country clearly stated who they wanted. No controversy here folks. Maybe let’s just stick with tech news and not show our biased political views in a tech article.
He's controversial not because he won, but because of who he is and what he believes. There's nothing biased or even political about that. The mountain of lawsuits, assault claims, overt racism, sexism, and indignation for any country that isn't the United States makes him a controversial president.
Saying someone is controversial isn't an insult or attack. It's a simple fact.
That’s your opinion. Many of us believe it was Biden, his family, business dealings, and policies that are controversial in addition to the law fare waged against the former and future President.
We appreciate the articles, but perhaps they can be a little more universal instead than of obviously creating a dividing line.
Literally anyone can be labeled controversial by anyone who disagrees with them. Doesn’t make it so.
When the majority of the country approves of the guy enough to make him president again, it’s not what believes or stands for that’s controversial. Just the facts.
I don't know what to say except words have meaning and you don't have to read our website. It's not biased to call him controversial, but if that hurts your feelings then find an article that will lie and make you feel better I guess.
Words do have meaning. That was my point. Your opinion about the president is your opinion. You are entitled to it, but your need to shoehorn your opinion everywhere possible when necessary - to the point where you are actively encouraging longtime website members (who have been with the site longer than yourself) to go elsewhere is antithetical to any business goal in addtiion to just being rude. Doesn't seem very professional. And that comment in bold proves it. Nowhere did I display emotion. I simply stated facts. If that hurts your feelings, maybe you should be doing something else.
The thing that you have complained about as being the writer’s opinion - that Donald Trump is controversial - is not just an objective fact, but an understatement of fact. Like him or don’t like him, the mere mention of Trump is “likely to give rise to public disagreement.” This has been proven literally millions upon millions (upon millions) of times over the last decade. It’s a fact you have proven one more time yourself right here by reacting to this article.
It’s telling that your reaction to the mere mention of this fact is that it must be some sort of slight against your hero. How fragile is he (and by extension, are you) that anything less than affirmative adoration must be called out as objectionable opinion?
I suspect that if an article here referred (also factually) to President Biden as “controversial,” you would say it’s a euphemistic and therefore objectionable “opinion” in support of Mr. Biden.
You are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts. You reaction here and the split vote last November affirm that Donald Trump is controversial. If you aren’t capable of accepting that fact, then you should indeed consider retreating to only those media sources that will tell you what you want to hear. There are plenty of them, and they have certainly made a lucrative industry of catering to your sensitivities while making a shambles of our country’s public discourse.
Trump feeds on being controversial. His narcissistic personality disorder demands it. The opposite of being controversial is being boring, and nothing would infuriate him more than being thought of as boring.
Trump doesn't feed on controversy. He doesn't care. He thinks he can get away with anything, which seems to be the case. Controversy doesn't get him anything and just gets in his way. He wants chaos but that's not the same as controversy.
So it’s odd that a Trump supporter would object to Trump being called controversial, and then list things about him that are absolutely controversial and say that they aren’t.
It could be said to be odd to a normal person who can view facts objectively. Otherwise, this is SOP for the MAGA cult:
He didn't say or do that. And if he did, he didn't mean that. And if he did, you didn't understand it. And if you did, it's not a big deal. and if it is, other have said or done worse.
MAGAt screed. Facts are stated not opinions, not baseless accusations but actual non-alternative facts, and MAGAts flatly deny or worse – ignore.
“Nice company ya got there. Be a shame if somtin’ were to happin to it.”
This. Trump is the bad guy here. Cook and hundreds of others aren't corrupting him. He's basically extorting them. Of Big Oil he asked for $1B donations in return for special favors. The Grift is strong in this one.
Nobody here who buys Apple products wants to pay 25% more because of increased import tariffs. Cook paid the tithe because he can't take the chance that Trump won't screw Apple over for not paying the tithe.
Pay the price if you want to do business. It isn't right, but it is what it is.
Tim Cook did the same thing with Biden. Also, why did Wesley coin the President-Elect as controversial? He won in an electoral college landslide and also won the popular vote by over 4 million votes. I’d say the country clearly stated who they wanted. No controversy here folks. Maybe let’s just stick with tech news and not show our biased political views in a tech article.
He's controversial not because he won, but because of who he is and what he believes. There's nothing biased or even political about that. The mountain of lawsuits, assault claims, overt racism, sexism, and indignation for any country that isn't the United States makes him a controversial president.
Saying someone is controversial isn't an insult or attack. It's a simple fact.
That’s your opinion. Many of us believe it was Biden, his family, business dealings, and policies that are controversial in addition to the law fare waged against the former and future President.
We appreciate the articles, but perhaps they can be a little more universal instead than of obviously creating a dividing line.
Literally anyone can be labeled controversial by anyone who disagrees with them. Doesn’t make it so.
When the majority of the country approves of the guy enough to make him president again, it’s not what believes or stands for that’s controversial. Just the facts.
I don't know what to say except words have meaning and you don't have to read our website. It's not biased to call him controversial, but if that hurts your feelings then find an article that will lie and make you feel better I guess.
Words do have meaning. That was my point. Your opinion about the president is your opinion. You are entitled to it, but your need to shoehorn your opinion everywhere possible when necessary - to the point where you are actively encouraging longtime website members (who have been with the site longer than yourself) to go elsewhere is antithetical to any business goal in addtiion to just being rude. Doesn't seem very professional. And that comment in bold proves it. Nowhere did I display emotion. I simply stated facts. If that hurts your feelings, maybe you should be doing something else.
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
It's actually "Dude, this is a wendy's..."If you gonna meme, gotta do it right my man. Bonus points for being a fellow The Office fan though.
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It's even more hilarious when words like "controversial" aren't allowed because it suggests the president might be bad, even though controversy isn't inherently bad. Steve Jobs was a controversial figure. Even Joe Biden was a controversial president. If you are threatened by everything you read because of some perceived slight due to a misunderstanding of the English language, then that's on you, dear reader.
I make my opinions known on the internet and in forums because I'm not afraid of them or embarrassed by them. But I can tell you that what I wrote was fair and balanced. If you're offended by facts, then stop going to websites that present facts.
There is also a fascinating Venn diagram overlap of the circle of those who claim that Trump getting 49.8% of the popular vote makes him an uncontroversial consensus, and the circle of those who claim that 99+% of expert scientific agreement on anthropogenic climate change is somehow highly controversial and open to endless challenge.
“Nice company ya got there. Be a shame if somtin’ were to happin to it.”
Sure, keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer, but this is straight up corruption. The only radon why it’s personal money is that this way it’s a “legal’ transaction. Tim knows it’s pocket money for him which will pay dividend on a corporate level, and therefore his share valuation.
And not all readers - "longtime" or not - will feel at home in all forums. Some forums may actually welcome those who are Moon-landing deniers, believers in Bigfoot, think that injecting bleach will cure Covid, wear white hoods and robes on the weekends, believe in Pizzagate/Jade Helm/JFK Jr's return, or pursue authoritarianism over democracy, etc. There are plenty of places where such nonsense is welcomed and even encouraged. I hope Apple Insider doesn't become one of those forums.
BTW - For reference:
controversial | ˌkäntrəˈvərsēəl, ˌkäntrəˈvərSH(ə)l | adjective
giving rise or likely to give rise to public disagreement
It could be said to be odd to a normal person who can view facts objectively. Otherwise, this is SOP for the MAGA cult:
He didn't say or do that. And if he did, he didn't mean that. And if he did, you didn't understand it. And if you did, it's not a big deal. and if it is, other have said or done worse.
MAGAt screed. Facts are stated not opinions, not baseless accusations but actual non-alternative facts, and MAGAts flatly deny or worse – ignore.
Nobody here who buys Apple products wants to pay 25% more because of increased import tariffs. Cook paid the tithe because he can't take the chance that Trump won't screw Apple over for not paying the tithe.
Pay the price if you want to do business. It isn't right, but it is what it is.