If you buy Apple products for some reason I can't fathom, remember this: some of your money will have paid for a golden statue for Donald Trump.
I wouldn't feel good holding that iPhone in my hand knowing that...
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2025
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Could you direct us to some ethically sourced smartphones?
Think this might be what you're looking for https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairphone
Oh, wow thank you this looks rad actually. Notable for US users: it appears to only work with T-mobile
Fairphone
Fairphone is most well known ethical manufacturer, then there's also Shiftphone.
Only work on T-Mobile and they aren't an ethical company.
or flippin flip phones
And pretty much everything else you buy benefits slave labor in china or elsewhere. You literally can’t escape it. Apple is not the sole problem here.
There's no sole company to blame for global issues, but you can sure as hell stop consuming products from companies who so openly and shamelessly bend the knee to the fascist Trump.
That's a constant across all of digital technology. So the only way to avoid it is to not use the technology.
But if you do, buying Apple means you are supporting the base level slave labour in China + support for Trump + a locked in ecosystem + a cycle of planned obsolescence. There are other products you can buy that subtract from this equation and may add in some benefits.
We have such limited agency, and nothing will change instantly, so we have to make the best choices we can to push people to do better.
what a cuck
I've never been more glad to have never given Apple a penny.
Cook is well known for his ability to foster a relationship with President Trump
Cook is Trump's token gay friend.
A seditious pedophile gets a trophy while the rest of us can’t afford housing.
everyone should call Tim Cook a real Ernst Röhm. hopefully ends with a similar fate.
What a nice gesture of Tim Apple for his friend who couldn't even remember his name right.
Really stretching the definition of statue with that.
It was a gold bar with a fucking piece of plastic. It was a literal bribery.
This was a thank you for not being federally charged while they were fucking their customers phone batteries up from afar, so they could sell more phones. Fuck apple!
We can all hear the dik sucking from apples offices
On a non related note does anyone know if anyone manufactures trump shaped anal dildos?
Probably, but they're likely to be unironic pro-trump.
I did the search. Etsy has a selection.
Assuming that gold bar that's used as the base is actually 24k gold and it isn't just gold plated, how much would it be worth?
If it's 1lb of solid gold, then about $28,200