Steve Jobs is dead! A sad day for hipster douchebags everywhere!

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Man, Fred Shuttlesworth was rugged.

Not making up:

Westboro announces protest of Steve Jobs funeral--with an iPhone

"Reality has made satire obsolete."

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[The Rev]

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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

OMG!

OK, whoever did that wins due to it being Too Soon, but STILL TOTALLY FUNNY.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

He was, however, fairly old, which makes it less shocking. Jobs was really young; 56. It tends to get more attention/shock when someone dies young. There is also, of course, the predictable "look away!" discomfort because he was a black civil rights activist, which most nonbrown people these days tend to pretend is no longer a relevant issue.

And it is, of course, relevant, and not only because racism is still a going concern.

Martin Luther King and his colleagues may have liberated brown folks, but they did so by using shame, which had the effect of civilizing white folks, or at least a large percentage of them.

The difference in behavior between the rather brutish Americans of the 50s and the current population is, IMO, directly related to the cultural impact of the civil rights movement.

ETA:  I just had a rather horrifying image of myself in a universe where the civil rights movement never occurred.

That's a disturbing thought! I rather think you'd still be a decent human being, though.

[Doktor Howl]

He was, however, fairly old, which makes it less shocking. Jobs was really young; 56. It tends to get more attention/shock when someone dies young. There is also, of course, the predictable "look away!" discomfort because he was a black civil rights activist, which most nonbrown people these days tend to pretend is no longer a relevant issue.

And it is, of course, relevant, and not only because racism is still a going concern.

Martin Luther King and his colleagues may have liberated brown folks, but they did so by using shame, which had the effect of civilizing white folks, or at least a large percentage of them.

The difference in behavior between the rather brutish Americans of the 50s and the current population is, IMO, directly related to the cultural impact of the civil rights movement.

ETA:  I just had a rather horrifying image of myself in a universe where the civil rights movement never occurred.

That's a disturbing thought! I rather think you'd still be a decent human being, though.

I'm a nuture over nature kinda guy.  I think I'd be a horrible fucking reptile wearing a tie and explaining why it's America's DUTY to rape 3rd world countries.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

He was, however, fairly old, which makes it less shocking. Jobs was really young; 56. It tends to get more attention/shock when someone dies young. There is also, of course, the predictable "look away!" discomfort because he was a black civil rights activist, which most nonbrown people these days tend to pretend is no longer a relevant issue.

And it is, of course, relevant, and not only because racism is still a going concern.

Martin Luther King and his colleagues may have liberated brown folks, but they did so by using shame, which had the effect of civilizing white folks, or at least a large percentage of them.

The difference in behavior between the rather brutish Americans of the 50s and the current population is, IMO, directly related to the cultural impact of the civil rights movement.

ETA:  I just had a rather horrifying image of myself in a universe where the civil rights movement never occurred.

That's a disturbing thought! I rather think you'd still be a decent human being, though.

I'm a nuture over nature kinda guy.  I think I'd be a horrible fucking reptile wearing a tie and explaining why it's America's DUTY to rape 3rd world countries.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

Not making up:

Westboro announces protest of Steve Jobs funeral--with an iPhone

If Westboro Baptist is protesting him then I retract the bad things I said about him. I hate them a lot more than I hate Apple.

I may even reconsider my position on Apple if their products are ever proven as effective at "teaching sin" as Westboro claims.

[The Rev]

[kingyak]

[Doktor Howl]

This thread is now full of fucking win.

Dok,
Knows that would have probably made Jobs lol.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Steve Jobs is dead. A sad day for hipster douchebags everywhere (apparently also for people so old that they can still remember back to when Steve Jobs and Apple Computers actually had real innovative ideas), but not for me , I can't stand Apple, and couldn't care less that Mephistopheles finally decided to collect on his end of their bargain.


Anybody else have any opinions?


EDIT: on rereading this while not so sleep-deprived I suppose this does seem to be a bit unduly harsh towards Steve Jobs. Just because his death will hurt the hated Apple corporation doesn't change the fact that by the standards of CEOs of major corporations he was a relatively decent guy.

EDIT: Also, just found out that apparently the Westboro Baptist Church doesn't like him, so I guess that's another thing in his favor.

Item Number Last: You shouldn't base your opinions on someone off of what the WBC thinks about someone. They hate everyone. And I mean, everyone. They would picket everyone's funeral if there weren't so many people in the world.

Edit Number second to last: I write a lot of stupid shit when I'm overtired/drunk. But nothing so stupid that a whole bunch of people are going to call me out on it the next day. Usually I'm the first one to go, Oh man... that was dumb.

The corpus of the OP.

There is never any reason to celebrate in the death of another human being. None. I find it one of the basest monkey qualities in a human being. If I didn't find anything celebration worthy in another high profile death earlier this year (and I will excuse the celebrations of others as long as it's not too disgusting), I'm certainly not going to celebrate in the death of a Buddhist philanthropist simply because he had more money than me or that people I may or may not find mildly irritating buy his products.

When a good man dies, you celebrate his life and mourn his death.
When an evil man dies, you celebrate nothing, and mourn that he wasted his life on making others miserable instead of happy.

I won't celebrate your eventual death even though you look like a useless douche right now.

And also, I'll jump on the fuck cancer bandwagon.

Now back to where the posts cut off when my phone battery died.

ETA: just dd a quick fact check. Apparently he wasn't too big on the philanthropy thing, so I correct myself in that. But, everything else I say stands. And he did a lot to bring us to the level of technology we have today.

I'm typing on a laptop. Thanks Steve for indirectly putting my in contact with other Discordians, allowing me to more easily promote (and record!) my music, and give me a means of never having to buy porn again!

Twid,
Uses the computer for the important things.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

He was, however, fairly old, which makes it less shocking. Jobs was really young; 56. It tends to get more attention/shock when someone dies young. There is also, of course, the predictable "look away!" discomfort because he was a black civil rights activist, which most nonbrown people these days tend to pretend is no longer a relevant issue.

And it is, of course, relevant, and not only because racism is still a going concern.

Martin Luther King and his colleagues may have liberated brown folks, but they did so by using shame, which had the effect of civilizing white folks, or at least a large percentage of them.

The difference in behavior between the rather brutish Americans of the 50s and the current population is, IMO, directly related to the cultural impact of the civil rights movement.

ETA:  I just had a rather horrifying image of myself in a universe where the civil rights movement never occurred.

That's a disturbing thought! I rather think you'd still be a decent human being, though.

I'm a nuture over nature kinda guy.  I think I'd be a horrible fucking reptile wearing a tie and explaining why it's America's DUTY to rape 3rd world countries.

I just saw myself with a bouffant sitting in some other suburban raptor-wife's kitchen, chasing dexedrine with coffee in one of those old cups that looks like a little bowl with a handle and saying horrible things about our cleaning ladies.

Ugh. Need brain bleach.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Except for the IIe's we had in my high school, I've never really used Apple products, but that's mainly because  so far Apple hasn't convinced me that its products have enough extra features to justify the extra cost. I never saw the point of the OS/brand tribalism that some people engage in. I'm not going to celebrate Jobs' death, but I'm also not going to act like it was an unexpected tragedy that the world will never recover from. He was responsible for a lot of innovations, but it's not like he cured cancer or anything.

GOD DAMN IT! 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This thread is now full of fucking win.

Dok,
Knows that would have probably made Jobs lol.

Damn straight it would have!  

You can tell the jokes that are made with love.

Or at least respect.