Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine (thedailybeast.com) 35
The founder of Oculus, Palmer Luckey, has backed a pro-Trump political organization called Nimble America that is dedicated to "shitposting" and spreading inflammatory memes about Hillary Clinton. In 2014, Luckey's virtual-reality company, Oculus, was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion. Forbes estimates his current net worth to be $700 million. The Daily Beast reports: "The 24-year-old told The Daily Beast that he had used the pseudonym "NimbleRichMan" on Reddit with a password given to him by the organization's founders. Nimble America says it's dedicated to providing that "shitposting is powerful and meme magic is real," according to the company's introductory statement, and has taken credit for a billboard its founders say was posted outside of Pittsburgh with a cartoonishly large image of Clinton's face alongside the words "Too Big to Jail." "We conquered Reddit and drive narrative on social media, conquered the [mainstream media], now it's time to get our most delicious memes in front of Americans whether they like it or not," a representative for the group wrote in an introductory post on Reddit. Potential donors from Donald Trump's biggest online community -- Reddit's r/The_Donald, where one of the rules is "no dissenters" -- turned on the organization this weekend, refusing to believe "NimbleRichMan" was the anonymous "near-billionaire" he claimed to be and causing a rift on one of the alt-right's most powerful organizational tools. Luckey insists he's just the group's money man -- a wealthy booster who thought the meddlesome idea was funny. But he is also listed as the vice-president of the group on its website. In another post written under Luckey's Reddit pseudonym, Luckey echoes Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who used his wealth to secretly bankroll Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. The Daily Beast adds: "'The American Revolution was funded by wealthy individuals," NimbleRichMan wrote on Saturday. Luckey confirmed to The Daily Beast he penned the posts under his Reddit pseudonym. 'The same has been true of many movements for freedom in history. You can't fight the American elite without serious firepower. They will outspend you and destroy you by any and all means.'"
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Trump may be the president America deserves.
Yeah but there's a whole world out there (Score:2)
outside of the USA, and if you think there was anti-Americanism before, if Trump is elected, it will be an all-out continuous, and well-deserved shitpost on America.
It's mildly interesting that an apparently technically bright kid can have otherwise no basic common sense, and no common decency about people who aren't white, because let's face it, you pretty much have to be a dumb-ass racist selfish paranoid shit-for-brains to be an ardent Trump supporter.
When the world comes a callin' (Score:2)
outside of the USA, and if you think there was anti-Americanism before, if Trump is elected, it will be an all-out continuous, and well-deserved shitpost on America.
Gasp! The Germans are here!
Allooooo Americans! We love you [youtube.com]
Welcome back, Americans!!!
What a Waste (Score:2)
We complain about lobbyists... but this is so much worse
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Really? Why? (Score:2)
We complain about lobbyists... but this is so much worse
I'm curious why you think this is.
We've just had an article about lobbyists that prevent Tesla from selling in Michigan without going through dealerships [slashdot.org] (which are universally hated), another recent article where lobbyists caused a town to lose it's working gigibit fibre internet [slashdot.org].
For contrast, note that the democrats put up a billboard of Trump kissing Cruz [google.com], and naked statues of Trump in several cities [huffingtonpost.com].
Question 1: Why is this worse than what Democrats do, and
Question 2: Why is this worse than lobbyists who
Anti-Hillary is not Pro-Trump (Score:3, Insightful)
There are a LOT of good reasons to be against Hillary without being for Trump.
A big one is this - after what she and the DNC did to Sanders, you all plan to reward her by voting for Hillary? Do you think the DNC will become more, or less corrupt if Hillary wins.
In the end it will not make that vast a difference in Trump or Clinton wins, two arms springing from the same body politic. So don't vote to destroy whatever shred of goodness was left of the DNC by rewarding corruption and massive corporate backroom deals which will be rewarded lavishly during her time in office (just as they were while she was secretary of state).
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I'll never support Trump. No matter who the alternative is.
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I'll never support Trump. No matter who the alternative is.
Adolf Hitler?
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Pretty much a zero sum equation as far as I see it. Trump uses the same speech tactics that Hitler did. I want him nowhere near public office anywhere in the world.
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Pretty much a zero sum equation as far as I see it.
Then you aren't living in reality...
There is no basis for comparison between the two and if you think they are the same, you REALLY are delusional...
But then delusional people rarely know they are, so you'll deny it... I'd suggest you get help, but has that ever worked over the Internet?
Probably not...
Trump has his issues, genocide is not one of them... If you actually knew what the hell you were talking about, you'd know that. Hitler was known for getting into fights, he used force and violence long bef
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Then vote third party.
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Whatever lets you sleep at night, I guess.
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In the end it will not make that vast a difference in Trump or Clinton wins, two arms springing from the same body politic.
Unless you're black. Or Hispanic. Or an immigrant. Or Muslim. Or a woman. Or gay. Or the rest of the LGBTQ team. Or have student loan debt. Or are just generally poor. Or want reasonable health care. Or labor protections. Or don't want random wars.
So yeah, if you're well isolated from any possible problem, you'll do ok, no matter who wins. If you aren't, you really only have one option.
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Yeah, anti-Hillary is pro Trump. If Hillary loses, Donald will win.
There's a big difference between the two: Donald is an idiot. Donald peddled racist lies about Obama for the last eight years. Why on Earth would you reward that? He's shown a complete lack of understanding of the constitution, foreign policy, nuclear strategy, government, or in fact anything other than getting his name in the news.
Re: Anti-Hillary is not Pro-Trump (Score:1)
The net effect though is that Trump benefits.
It's support whether you intend it or not
So Palmer supports a fascist demagogue. (Score:4, Interesting)
Guess I shouldn't be surprised. Glad I gave up on Oculus the second Facebook bought them.
He's proven himself to be a duplicitous piece of shit since the acquisition. This is not shocking.
Hillary is also a piece of shit, but not one that would immediately alienate 90% of the rest of the planet, and likely plunge us into thermonuclear war within 6 months of taking office.
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That's ignorance talking, making a leap from Trump is loud and obnoxious to he would fire nukes. Trump is a nationalist and doesn't want to be engaged outside of what directly confronts US interests. In that he's like Obama, who was extremely cautions about intervening for humanitarian or idealistic reasons. Hillary on the other side is an old-school interventionist.
Want more confirmation besides her track record? She pressured Obama into intervening in Libya. She even prevented the US' military from negoti
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likely plunge us into thermonuclear war within 6 months of taking office.
You have no idea that is likely... You really don't...
You're just guessing, imagining, daydreaming...
Don't confuse the two...
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You are wrong.
Hillary will start shit with russia, syria and iran. Guaranteed.
She didn't get all that money from saudi arabia for funzies.
As for trump. You're not a big reader i take it.
Everything he's done is straight out of 'the art of the deal'.
Re: So Palmer supports a fascist demagogue. (Score:1)
Keep reading HuffPo (Score:2)
Critical thinking is a challenge for some. Clinton is far more likely to plunge us into another war (she's a well known hawk), she's also far more likely to fuck the poor (just look at who's bankrolling her campaign, if you think they're doing this out of the kindness of their hearts, you're beyond naive). The only thing Clinton has going for her is that she's far more likely to die early into her presidency, but then you get Kaine, who, according to her own words from a few years ago, is "a terrible choice
so he loves to shitpost... (Score:2)
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I'm +1 on that hashtag.
Anyone know how Rob's doing these days?
Spreading political memes. (Score:1)
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I created a Facebook group where I take memes that imply that there are only two political parties in the USA, and edit them to say that there are a multitude. Unfortunately, the One-Party System shut down my Facebook account.
Brilliant insight. (Score:2)
The American Revolution was funded by wealthy individuals
On the one hand, the American Revolution was also lead by philosophers, scientists, judges, generals, etc. These guys had some ideas about how to create a better system than what they inherited.
On the other hand, you have Donald Trump. His philosophical concept of government is that "Only I can fix it" and "All you need to know is that I'll take care of it. Don't worry about." "There's going to be so much winning." etc. Luckey and Thiel should be so proud.
ISWYDT (Score:2)
refusing to believe "NimbleRichMan" was the anonymous "near-billionaire" he claimed to be and causing a rift
I see what you did there.
Typical Republican tatic: LIE (Score:2)
It's been the Republican MO since Reagan. The man was a lying sack of shit, and some think he's a saint.
Reagan had the CIA be the middle man for Colombian drug lords to fund insurgents in Iran. All the while claiming there's a war on drugs.
There's an adage in psychology, if you tell a lie enough times you believe it's true. Nazi Germany is a perfect example.
as someone else noted. Trump looks a lot like Hitler.