Didn’t tophia quite literally buy a new iphone like during motelchu era even though it wasn’t even outdated?

Literally if she had money she would get a new one. Maybe not the 17pro max but defintely a new one🤣🤣

Gawd that hat is disgusting

Omg why is she shopping at boxlunch it’s expensive

this gettup is horrifying

Dawg she CANNOT dress

>apple is not tied to Gaza in any supply-chain way buying an iphone doesn't fund or enable it

They've invested in Israeli tech firms, invest in semi-conductor research in Israel, and workers have stated they match donations to (illegal under international law) settlements in occupied territory so there is a link there, but you are correct in putting Tophia on blast for half-assing an opinion on it.

I agree with you on your statements about this topic.

I’m probably going to update to the new iPhone because I have an iPhone 13 and, as someone said, they haven’t stopped supporting it yet, but it’s on hospice. I may keep my 13 for work, though, since I need to silo personal and professional. 

I love the *idea* of Fairphones, but it sounds like there are a lot of issues with it. 

Although, tangentially related, if the government goes to Apple wanting them to unlock the phones of pro-Palestinian activists, Apple is much more likely to shut them down than Alphabet or Microsoft. I feel like that’s a consideration, especially with the recent “antifa is a domestic group” and the “war on the radical left” rhetoric.  I don’t think Apple is morally superior to the other two, but they’ve built their brand partially on privacy (which shouldn’t be a luxury product) and I feel like they’d take a major hit if they did. 

So, yeah, I need a new phone and Apple seems like the lesser evil. 

When it’s all said and done, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but we also have to consume to survive. All you can do is try to pick companies that align with your values and limit your consumption as much as possible. Neither of which Tophia is doing. 

She said Gaza voted for Trump😂

Omg bro fr she was saying i dont know what the boycott is anymoreim gonna eat my big mac or something like that

Would that be the same TikTok shop that almost certainly is selling some goods made by enslaved Uighars? You know, one of those other genocides that people don’t even know about that she alluded to in a post? 

my iphone 15 coming in the mail soon is giggling she doesn’t understand how it works🤦🏻‍♀️

*laughs in cosmic orange*

A lafufu that got stolen lmao

That’s the exact problem with almost everything Tophia says on issues like this. She generally isn’t completely wrong, but she doesn’t actually understand the issues and has no concept of nuance. I think I’m more concerned with ethical consumption than the average person and it’s usually an exhausting series of trade offs and balancing acts. For example, a few years ago my local zoo posted a list of palm oil free candies for Halloween, but a lot of them used slave labor. And Soda Stream is on the BDS list, but a lot of people who use it do it because it’s extremely low waste compared to cans and bottles. Fortunately, there are other options  now, but for a long time, you had to decide between creating more waste or supporting a company in the occupied West Bank. The BDS list exists because the founders realized that a boycotting all companies with Israeli ties was impractical and unsustainable,  so they came up with a short list of the worst offenders to apply pressure to. 

I honestly believe that Tophia actually harms the causes she speaks in support of because the average person hears her say some crazy thing and automatically dismisses the actual issue because she makes it sound so stupid and trivial.