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This person = Palmer Luckey = Oculus VR founder

by bytebuster 8y ago

leowoo91 8y ago
And he literally didn't like and hacked his own product as a consumer?
- narrowtux 8y ago
  He left the company last year.
  - andybak 8y ago
    Or rather was kicked out for links with the Alt-Right.
    - danielvf 8y ago
      By which we mean he made a single $10,000 donation to an organization that at the time of his donation had put up one single anti-Hillary billboard.
      - happytoexplain 8y ago
        Wasn't it more than that?
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        danielvf 8y ago
        @wronghorse, If I'm reading that FEC page you linked to correctly, the only donations listed before his firing were to Ted Cruz and Dana Rohrabacher, neither of whom is even vaguely alt-right. Palmer's big donating spree happened after his firing, and those later donations still didn't go to alt-right causes/candidates, just Republican ones. [edit: The post I was side replying to has been deleted. Sorry if this post now makes less sense.]
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        83457 8y ago
        I thought the donation was to some other group making political memes and not a candidate....?
        josefresco 8y ago
        "Dana Rohrabacher, neither of whom is even vaguely alt-right" Uhhh what now?
      - TheodolphusRose 8y ago
        I think context is important for understanding the response. From what I recall at the time, the article that first broke this news and defined the narrative was this article from the Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-near-billionaire-secretly-funding-trumps-meme-machine https://www.thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-nea... Describing it as a $10K donation for a single anti-Hillary billboard misses the parts of the story that caused controversy at the time. The controversial aspects included his connection to Milo Yiannopoulos and moderators of r/The_Donald, and their connections to abusive online behavior and white supremacist rhetoric.
      - dwild 8y ago
        Wasn't he funding a group that was posting fake news and memes online?

This person = Palmer Luckey = Oculus VR founder

leowoo91 8y ago

And he literally didn't like and hacked his own product as a consumer?

narrowtux 8y ago
He left the company last year.
- andybak 8y ago
  Or rather was kicked out for links with the Alt-Right.
  - danielvf 8y ago
    By which we mean he made a single $10,000 donation to an organization that at the time of his donation had put up one single anti-Hillary billboard.
    - happytoexplain 8y ago
      Wasn't it more than that?
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      - danielvf 8y ago
        @wronghorse, If I'm reading that FEC page you linked to correctly, the only donations listed before his firing were to Ted Cruz and Dana Rohrabacher, neither of whom is even vaguely alt-right. Palmer's big donating spree happened after his firing, and those later donations still didn't go to alt-right causes/candidates, just Republican ones. [edit: The post I was side replying to has been deleted. Sorry if this post now makes less sense.]
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        83457 8y ago
        I thought the donation was to some other group making political memes and not a candidate....?
        josefresco 8y ago
        "Dana Rohrabacher, neither of whom is even vaguely alt-right" Uhhh what now?
    - TheodolphusRose 8y ago
      I think context is important for understanding the response. From what I recall at the time, the article that first broke this news and defined the narrative was this article from the Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-near-billionaire-secretly-funding-trumps-meme-machine https://www.thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-nea... Describing it as a $10K donation for a single anti-Hillary billboard misses the parts of the story that caused controversy at the time. The controversial aspects included his connection to Milo Yiannopoulos and moderators of r/The_Donald, and their connections to abusive online behavior and white supremacist rhetoric.
    - dwild 8y ago
      Wasn't he funding a group that was posting fake news and memes online?