The fact that Tim sits across the table with people who persecute gays on a daily basis is the part that surprises me.
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Saudi Prince Meets Tim Cook at Apple Park to Discuss Education and App Development Opportunities
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The fact that Tim sits across the table with people who persecute gays on a daily basis is the part that surprises me.
We don't behead people in the public square here, require guardians for women and ban them from driving.
Former Saudi King Abdullah, and his half brother, King Salman, were both moving Saudi Arabia in the right direction but very slowly. Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has greatly accelerated reforms on many fronts including women's rights, formal relations with Israel, entertainment (allowing movie theaters to open after they were banned for the past 30+ years), education, etc. I applaud the great progress Prince Salman is making in modernizing Saudi Arabia and I am happy to see him meeting with Apple and other tech companies while he is visiting here in the U.S.
I have a number of friends here in the U.S. who are college students from Saudi Arabia. They are all very happy to see the direction Prince Salman is taking their country.
I have a number of friends here in the U.S. who are college students from Saudi Arabia. They are all very happy to see the direction Prince Salman is taking their country.
MBS' thoughts on the Saudi role in the rise of islamic fundamentalism is pretty interesting. In many ways it shows the difference between clever men and intelligent men when it comes to strategy and policy. In the past clever men were valued and admired, but as we've seen their "solutions" lead you down to a pit that's difficult to escape.
Somewhat lacking in snacks and refreshments, although it being Saturday probably no one had thought to fill up the vending machines.
After funding ISIS to destabilise Middle East and mostly Syria, and then bombing Yemen to stone ages and causing biggest humanitarian crisis in the world, Saudi prince found some time to meet up with Tim Cook, the biggest virtue signalling and 'humanitarian' guy that has ever lived. A man that is gay, kind of people Saudis throw off buildings for sports.
Am I forgetting anything?
This would make one heck of a Monty Python show.
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Why does TC always look like he's afraid of something in the photos?
Am I forgetting anything?
This would make one heck of a Monty Python show.
P.S.
Why does TC always look like he's afraid of something in the photos?
You do shoot and kill children learning safe at school there though... so there’s that.
Really hard to tell from just 1 frame, and without context, did they just sit? are they leaving? In real life you can't pull it in a second like in Lie to meLooks like the ones on the left are the dominating ones.
.If I had to pick I would say quite the oppsoite from you, the one on the left are saying: "This is what we want" and the guys on the right are like : "you can ask all you want we do not care and won't comply. " If you look the guy next to Phil seems like smiling at them, the guy next to Tim has a firm jaw giving you the idea of being angry, while the Price has a grin in his face makjng you think he believes he is in control, or pretending he is,it is all about confidence sometimes.
But then again, there's more than hands and face, and you could read it in many different way, very hard from a 1 frame pic without context,
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So one recently-empowered guy should make his centuries-old ultra-conservative sociopolitical structure look like a liberal democracy in about a month. We should only engage people whose countries look like Western Europe or Canada, even if they’re taking steps in the right direction. Boy, the chair of absolutism must be comfortable indeed.
That's pretty chilling. Even if the people involved are corrupt, torture in the place if due process of law is reprehensible.
A wise man knows what he can change, knows what he cannot change, and has the courage to change what he can change.
Tim Cook is a wise man. You are not. Or maybe you tell us exactly what _you_ have done to improve the world.
And it is my secret opinion that you don't really care one bit about the rights of women in Saudia Arabia. What annoys you to the death is what Tim Cook says and does in the USA, and you will try anything to badmouth him.
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Donald Trump is all for torture. At least that's what he said in public.
Prince to Cook if you do this for us I can assure you some good tax shelters for your money.
I was gonna say the exact same thing. In Apple's own house and they look TOTALLY intimidated!
Or, getting some intelligence on Jared Kushner to use in the battle over privacy.
the left side of the room is runnin deep! although we cant see the rest of the right side, just my guess.
lol seriously why is that table so big. Looks rather unnecessarily high-pressure and ridiculous.
I feel differently about what the body language says. Saudis look over anxious and Apple is reluctant to leap too far for them.
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Looks like the ones on the left are the dominating ones.
It appears to me the the Saudis look eager to negotiate and Apple isn’t.
They can drive now and guardian thing is slowly being removed. We may not behead people in public but we execute them in prison. They execute them in public as a deterrent to put fear into people that there will be a price to pay for serious crimes committed. In case you are curious, it works because crime in Saudi Arabia is lower when compared to America. People in Saudi Arabia go to pray and leave their shops open without fear of being robbed. Many also leave their front doors open to their homes without fear of being robbed while in America people are out even stealing mail from mailboxes to commit mail fraud and identity fraud.
Tim "$$$$$$$$$$" or "persecution of gays" Hmmmmmmm
Also how many people walked into the glass walls getting to the conference room? Allot of security in and out of that room also. And no thats not Eddie in the blue. But dam Angela has some serious man hands.