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AppleZulu said:

DAalseth said:

quakerotis said:

you wanted your comic book villain?

Huh, what’s the word. You know, for someone working inside the government, trying to use government contacts, and coercion, to get them to restrict competition, to benefit that persons company. To use the tools of government to establish athemselves in control of an abusive monopoly.

There’s a word for that. Corr…corru…something. 

The corruption here is monumental. To use one of Trump’s favorite phrases, “it’s like you’ve never seen before.”

Musk is a guy with billions of dollars in US government contracts across a dozen departments annd agencies. Now he’s been given license to dig into every one of those agencies with the power to fire employees and cut off funding (while the GOP Congress shrugs at this unconstitutional usurpation of their power and authority). So what do you think it means when one of Musk’s companies “requests” one of those threatened agencies to take actions to give him advantage over a competitor?

Before anyone tries to respond with some sort of tortured rationalization, imagine the paragraph above with the name “Soros” substituted for “Musk,” and see if your rationalization still suits you before you post it. If it feels wrong if someone you don’t like is doing it, then you should probably realize it’s also wrong when your preferred characters are doing it. 

9secondkox2 said:

nubus said:

9secondkox2 said:

 Let’s not focus on moving goalposts and instead simply be glad someone is standing up for Apple in the face of abusive and corrupt foreign powers. 

3 countries having North American geographical areas are on the "15 least corrupt countries list" according to transparency.org.
U.S. is not one of them. U.S. is globally #28 and #5/6 in North America. Did you try to fix your own house first?

I guess not. The White House is now a Tesla showroom funded by taxpayers while the next round of tariffs affects everyone but Tesla. The art of being a back scratching swamp creature.

All of this for an article based on hearsay from a lobbyist. Have you considered that EU can't keep fines and has no smartphone production to protect?

Fixing the corruption of the last four years is exactly what’s going on these days. Look no further than the USAID farce. So there is a great effort going on there. The president talking up an American car he bought after that same company has been vandalized, terrorized, and assaulted by coordinated criminals seems like a pretty dang good thing to do to most Americans. 

Of course the eu has no iPhone of its own. If they did, they’d make money instead of stealing it from American companies - especially apple. You can cover for the corruption as much as you want, but the first round was obvious as it attacked the business models of American companies. And now they stopped pretending and showed how blatantly criminal they are by simply singling out apple by itself, shifting goalposts yet again. All the while the suck getting richer by the billions. And where are those billions going? So it’s best that Apple has a powerful ally who not only says he’ll do something about the abuses, but actually does something about it.