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Logical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:35 AM Original message |
Did I miss something about how Jobs was some great progressive leader?? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:01 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. +1 n/t |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:01 PM Response to Reply #1 |
15. I think you should try to cram more goofy red meat dog whistles into your posts. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:32 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. Was what I posted false? |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:38 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. Worse, it was gibberish and nonsense, & it makes you sound like you have issues. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:56 PM Response to Reply #29 |
37. The people I mentioned in the deleted post are the types that support the DLC. |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 01:23 PM Response to Reply #37 |
41. "the types" |
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Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
2. I think a lot of people just like their iToys. n/t |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
34. There it is, in a nutshell. |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 01:24 PM Response to Reply #34 |
42. Here I am! I'm in a nutshell! |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
4. Political donations - |
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itsrobert (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:42 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. 209K over 30 years for him is like me donating 2 cents to the Democrats |
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Logical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:43 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Great point! |
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Kablooie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:50 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. So you'd have respect for him if he were a liberal version the Kochs? |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:28 PM Response to Reply #5 |
21. All I was responding to was the question about whether he was progressive. |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
7. Evidently you did!! |
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HappyMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
8. They are worried that there won't be any |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:03 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. DAmn, I was ahead of my time... |
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HappyMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:36 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. Me too. |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:35 PM Response to Reply #8 |
25. Wonder how many of the OWS hipsters are tweeting on their iPhones...nt |
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Wait Wut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:47 PM Response to Reply #25 |
31. That's what I was thinking. |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:49 PM Response to Reply #8 |
32. Did you see all the bitter whining over the Apple iPhone 4s not being the iPhone 5? |
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HappyMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:55 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. Wow! |
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Retrograde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 01:49 PM Response to Reply #32 |
44. Everytime I go by the Apple store |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 01:55 PM Original message |
Agreed - I've got a comic for you. |
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NYC Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
9. But DU does mourn truck drivers and plumbers who die; all the time. |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 01:55 PM Response to Reply #9 |
45. And outside of that, some here at DU personally knew Jobs. |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
10. Does someone have to be a great progressive leader in order to be appreciated? |
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Ineeda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
12. I wonder how many of the 47K Apple 'employees' |
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jeff47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:25 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. Almost all of them. |
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shireen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
13. we'll never know about most heroes because they live and die silently |
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NYC Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:05 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Thank you. When DUers do post about those quiet heroes, they are very much |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
16. Would you like him more if he had invented the 'ignore thread' function? |
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pintobean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
17. Rec |
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jeff47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
22. One doesn't have to be a great progressive leader to change the world for the better |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
23. Cultist want to honor him like a techno-god. |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:38 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. ... |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 01:21 PM Response to Reply #28 |
39. Wrong that is true, sorry if you are ignorant to that fact. |
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jeff47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 05:14 PM Response to Reply #39 |
47. You're kidding, right? |
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n2doc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
27. We have lots of posts about Obama also. He's no great Progressive leader either |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
30. What about the Dalai Lama? |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:52 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. Jobs was a Buddhist, and so is the Dalai Lama; the difference is Jobs amassed a material fortune |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 01:21 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Buddhists don't disparage anyone with material fortune. |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 01:23 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Get a clue. The Buddha was a prince who eschewed his own fortune. |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 01:43 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. Once again, Buddhists do NOT disparage anyone with material fortune. |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-11 12:22 AM Response to Reply #40 |
49. And your Western Monotheistic lens interprets that to mean "fortune"="sinful" |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-11 08:55 AM Response to Reply #49 |
50. That's nothing more than a psychological rationalization. |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-07-11 11:48 AM Response to Reply #50 |
51. Okee Dokee. |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
33. K&R - no, he was't at all a progressive or liberal. |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
46. He was a liberal Democrat, and he got Al Gore on the Apple Board of Directors |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 05:26 PM Response to Original message |
48. He might have been a progressive, but he was NOT a humanitarian |
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