I don't think there's many who'd disagree with that assessment. He was just vile. Severing hands for not making a rubber quota and severing them just because? He was just flat out an evil evil human being.
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Apple Hit With Criminal Complaints Over Congo Mineral Trade
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The way I see it, this can only be good for Apple. Even if the allegations are found to be true, it is simply an opportunity for Apple to further clean up its supply chain and when it does, it turns out to be in an even stronger position in the supplier responsibility scorecard. All they have to do is "we said it, we meant it, thank you for finding a flaw, we'll fix it. If the allegations are not true, then it solidifies that Apple really is doing what it says it is doing.
More times than that. David Bowie was already singing about this with “Five Years” in 1972.
It's Called ODA and Japan has done more than other nations regarding humanitarian Aid since the end of WW2. China steals valuable land and mineral rights from 3rd world countries from this BS loan agreement when they can't repay it. There is no good in what China does for these nations that get trapped in China BS.
Nothing to see here, just another corrupt country trying to make an extra buck on useless accusations. 🤷♂️
Tim Cook has the blood of at least 1.3 million dead Chinese people on his hands. China had a zero-COVID policy that the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people supported (because it was life-saving). Due to pressure from multinational corporations such as Apple and Nike, the Chinese Communist Party abruptly ended their zero-COVID policy on December 7, 2022, causing 1.3 million deaths (according to Airfinity) in just two months by February 6, 2023.
Cook is an evil man who values profits over people. In late 2022, he knew full well COVID would spread like wildfire in China if the CCP cancelled their zero-COVID policy, but he didn't care because, despite Apple making enormous profits during that time, it is never enough for him, and he wanted to make even more in profits. Therefore, I would be thouroghly unsurprised if the criminal complaints Apple was hit with over the Congo mineral trade are valid.
Cook is an evil man who values profits over people. In late 2022, he knew full well COVID would spread like wildfire in China if the CCP cancelled their zero-COVID policy, but he didn't care because, despite Apple making enormous profits during that time, it is never enough for him, and he wanted to make even more in profits. Therefore, I would be thouroghly unsurprised if the criminal complaints Apple was hit with over the Congo mineral trade are valid.
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I would like to see some evidence on how and who pilaged the minerals and if you have the know how of the supply chain and its operators then why not disrupt the the supply chain at the source , or arrest its operators instead of asking the customers to do the due diligence.
yup, humans are really sad creatures. Centuries of evolution and we learn nothing.
on a topic side, I think this is just another money extortion project.
You are really going out of your way to criticise Tim Cook (judging by your post history), to the point where you are making comments that are blatantly untrue.
If you want to hate, at least hate right. That’s all I ask.
Everybody wants to jump to extremes and think that extremes prove a point. They don't.
There is a difference between boundaries and interference. Environmental destruction and human conflict are caused by government action or lack of action and have nothing to do with capitalism.
And socialism has never worked anyplace on earth and yet, here you are professing it as the solution. I trust freedom and the people, you don't. Got it. You know why government interference does not work? Because you conveniently leave out real world government corruption. If people cannot make the right decision in society, there is absolutely no reason to believe that those same people in government will make better decisions. So you fundamentally do NOT understand government.
Corporations corrupt governments to profit off war crimes and human misery.
What is new?..
P.S. But hey, we've got LGBTQXYZ emotes now, surely they're doing good things, right?
What is new?..
P.S. But hey, we've got LGBTQXYZ emotes now, surely they're doing good things, right?
My comments about Tim Cook being resposible for the deaths of at least 1.3 million people in China are correct according to the Wall Street Journal and Airfinity. I will cite my two sources below.
Wall Street Journal:
Airfinity:
China risks between 1.3 and 2.1 million deaths if it ends its zero-COVID strategy | Airfinity
Airfinity’s risk analysis uses cumulative peak cases and deaths from Hong Kong's BA.1 wave as a proxy for mainland China.
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My comments are not "blatantly untrue," and in fact are correct, according to the Wall Street Journal and Airfinity. I will cite my two sources below.
Wall Street Journal:
Airfinity:
China risks between 1.3 and 2.1 million deaths if it ends its zero-COVID strategy | Airfinity
Airfinity’s risk analysis uses cumulative peak cases and deaths from Hong Kong's BA.1 wave as a proxy for mainland China.www.airfinity.com
As though Apple had any power to force the Chinese government to do something they didn’t want to.
It just goes to show that China made the wrong call to quarantine its people indefinitely. There was growing discontent over the never ending lockdowns and in hindsight, opting for quarantines over vaccinations and expansion of ICU capacity merely delayed the inevitable, because it meant the populace never built up the resistance necessary to combat the virus (which was never going to go away). Not to mention that virtually nothing had been done during these two years to prepare the Chinese people for the inevitable re-opening.
The rushed re-opening is solely on the Chinese government. Apple has nothing to do with this.
The very first sentence of that Wall Street Journal article says Apple played a "major role" in persuading the CCP to cancel their zero-COVID policy. Here is that first sentence:
"A letter from the founder of the world’s largest iPhone assembler played a major role in persuading China’s Communist Party leadership to accelerate plans to dismantle the country’s zero-tolerance Covid-19 policies, according to people familiar with the matter."
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And I call BS on that.
Covid protests escalate in Guangzhou as anger over Chinese lockdown boils
Mainland China’s biggest wave of civil disobedience since the 1989 Tiananmen protests comes as its economy sputters after having grown at breakneck rates for decades.
www.nbcnews.com
The real problem is that the targeted lockdown approach that China tried to take with the COVID outbreaks ultimately didn’t work with the much more transmissible, though less severe, Omicron variant. I believe it was this growing discontent from being forced to stay at home with no endgame in sight, and not any pressuring from Apple or Foxconn, that ultimately forced the hand of the Chinese government into opening up.
I like to think we're still an extremely young species that is still in its toddler years... we will mature, but will the planet still be here when we do?
I think I like your positive view better
Will borrow it, just to keep some positivity in my life. Lets hope we will still have something left to live on Common sense is the evidence. History is the evidence. Truth is the evidence. I agree lost cause here, propaganda warriors will never see the light.
The terrorists who invaded country I are free to surrender any time they want, and bring the war which they declared to an end.