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Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine (thedailybeast.com)
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.'"
How mad are you gonna be when Trump wins?
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.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
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.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
I'm curious why you think this is.
It doesn't seem like I should have to explain this in such basic terms, but then I have to remember my audience.
Because tanking America's entire economy while raining nuclear missiles on the rest of the world for real or (more likely) imagined slights is a whole hell of a lot worse than all the things the lobbyists may or may not currently be doing.
Duh!
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.
> My dad hates Obama, and calls him a communist. That is, of course, absurd.
> Calling Trump a Nazi is equally absurd
Both are incorrect, one is utterly cuckoo.
Obama is the leader of the Democrat party this year.
Also this year, Bernie Sanders was a serious contender to succede Obama as head of the Democrats (and the country).
The ideology of the Democrat party, led by Obama, is similar to the ideology of Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders says Bernie Sanders is a Communist, the country's best-known Communist.
Obama might not exactly *be* a communist, but he's on the same team as the leading US Communist.
Further, Obama has written that he made it a point to hang out with Communists and learn from them. He's quoted notable Communists.
Obama may not technically be a Communist, but he likes them, he quotes them, and he leads the party that nearly nominated a Communist president.
On the other side, Hitler killed 12 million people. Trump played reality TV star during a campaign.
One comparison is slightly incorrect. The other is completely insane.
many Trump supporters, including several IN CONGRESS, have LITERALLY DEFENDED the idea of bringing back US Internment camps.
On a related note, a lot of Hillary supporters are big fans of the last US president who locked people up in concentration camps.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."