Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016

Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:07PM (#29491184)

Pointing out someone else's hypocrisy isn't an inconsistency. If someone says doing business with a military is unacceptable and then proceeds to do business with a military, they're a hypocrite. That's still true even if the person telling you this does business with a military.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by Eelongate on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:02PM (#29491719)

> "If someone says doing business with a military is unacceptable"

Thiel hasn't even done that. His position seems to be that American companies should work with the US Military, but shouldn't work with the Chinese military. Such a position is certainly partisan, but it isn't hypocritical.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by smithza on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:59PM (#29492235)

> Such a position is certainly partisan

Try patriotic, or more cynically nationalistic.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by Eelongate on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @07:02PM (#29492262)

Partisan fits. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/partisan

1. An adherent to a party or faction. 2. A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.

Maybe that word isn't judgemental enough for you, but it fits and I used it carefully.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by robotresearcher on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @09:00PM (#29492948)

Both of these are instances of partisanship.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by CountSessine on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:18PM (#29491861)

Is it hypocritical to work with the US military, and not the Chinese military?

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:28PM (#29491957)

Is your justification for not working with the Chinese military that working with a military is unacceptable?

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by CountSessine on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:43PM (#29492082)

Clearly it isn't Peter Thiel's justification. So kelnos is wrong in calling this hypocrisy.

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