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Which/what do you and he consider to be phony about this culture war over guns?

• secstate 10y ago
  Linking the frequent sending of gun emojis to gun violence would be hard indeed. Perhaps it's not phony, per se, but it is so hilariously ancillary to the actual discussion regarding mental health, access to field combat-grade firearms, and disparities in urban molestation of certain classes of people that this smacks more of Apple doing solid PR than it does actually solving issues in our communities. That's my take on Thiel's point, and guns are NOT the only topic where big corps trot out stupid stunts to capitalize on what yesterdays big cultural outrage was.
  • hga 10y ago
    But this does put the very clearly on one side of this cultural war, so it's something more than nothing. Virtue signaling at the very least. And it's not as if Apple isn't giving OS X/macOS plenty of reasons to switch to something else from what I've been reading....