Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday joined mounting calls from corporate leaders against the new Georgia restrictive voting law and other voting restrictions around the country.
Words? Nice.
Moving business out of GA until they straighten up and fly right? Better.
Words are cheap, and Republicans have grown very thick skin, especially after the last four years, to these sorts of condemnations.
If Georgia decided to pass a law decriminalizing the theft of products from Apple stores, would Apple limit itself to ācondemningā that action because āAmerican history is the story of expanding the [right to protect the property of] all citizensā?
A better question is, if that is all it did, would anyone have any incentive not to get free iPhones?
I think we all know the answers.
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and so forth
Thereās only one way to get the attention of the Georgia government that put these Jim Crow laws into place- the pocketbook. A sustained campaign should be made to impact every sector.
They might change their minds, they might not. But at least a price will have been extracted and bad behavior discouraged rather than reinforced.
#BoycottGeorgia
Does Apple have any manufacturing plants in rural GA? Oh No. Well is Apple willing to stop selling products to conservative counties in GA? Oh hell NO. Well then this statement means absolutely nothing because white rural GA conservatives wonāt give one shit at all what Tim Cook ācondemnsā. Hell havenāt you heard, conservatives hate ābig techā now, theyāll be happy they make āAppleā sad.
All these news stories are just free press for companies to make marketing statements at this point.
They cannot simultaneously live in the years 1840 and 2021.
Georgia isnāt the only state considering and passing voting restrictions. We can only hope those other states are taking notice. There is nothing worse for the GOP than to lose its corporate funders. Everybody has to keep all of these corporate announcements in mind. They are a positive. Trashing these corporations for finally doing the right thing doesnāt really help.
Now the corporations and the Democrats need to get behind a repeal campaign in GA.
And THAT, sir - it the correct answer.
RepubliQans understand MONEY. The kind of money in their personal or political bank accounts. Nothing else. To stop bad behavior is easy - pledge to stop contributing to ANY RepubliQan for ANY reason until they stop being Nazis.
Of course, RepubliQans ARE Nazis - so thereās always that.
All I can hope for, is that even if itās too late for these type of comments to have an effect on Georgiaās Racist Rights Act, itās a warning shot across the bow of other Red States contemplating similar atrocities.
Again Iād like to give kudos to Jennifer Rubin at WaPo. Today she well summarizes, with some evidence, why these corporations are finally stepping up and why it took them so long.
Her column two days ago (sorry, I did already post about it here yesterday) which I thought might have influenced some of these execs, looks in hindsight to be more an indication of her prescience.
So, Does this mean that Apple and all of itās executive billionaires will withhold any campaign contributions to the GQP?
To little and to Late! Iām tired of this crap from the Corporations and 1%. This is exactly what they want, running the country like a business where the workers have no say in what the Execs decide.
Apple has a large presence in Austin. Whatās Apple Man doing to stop the Texas disgrace just passed the state senate, BEFORE it clears the assembly and gets signed into law?
While Apple may well have a presence in Georgia, they are not perceived as a āGeorgia-based companyā. As such, Cook could have merely held his fire and said nothing. I welcome his voice, as the leader of perhaps the worldās greatest and most innovative company, to the conversation, and hope it spurs many more leaders to speak out. Itās still not to late to build pressure on Georgiaās legislators.
North Carolina Rethugs learned the hard way that passing stupid discriminatory laws is not an economically smart thing to do. It also makes you the laughingstock of the entire world.
You know voters used to disdain politicians who waited for the wind to blow before staking out a position. Corporates are the new politicians.
All 4% of them. 
How? Like really how are these statements in any way a concern for Republicans in other states no to do the same thing? Do people really think being shammed by is a concern for Republicans? So far hardly any companies have shown they are willing to actually do anything outside of making a statement. So not really a big threat or deterrent.
And as I keep saying, the few companies that have shown interest in actually boycotting states over this, all will probably hurt the āliberal leaning citesā in those states much more than the rural conservative areas, so that will be a benefit for the resentful rural conservatives that are pushing this stuff. They love to see āurban liberalsā suffer. Hell Idaho republicans just kneecapped their own school systems funding over what Australia might do sometime in the future. If they can consolidate more power by limiting monitory voting, you think these people are gonna care that some āurban liberalā will loose their job do to the boycott that followed, or that the state budget will be smaller. Yea, noā¦
Not like their horde in CA, but not nothinā
