So the filthy rich 24-year-old founder of Oculus — you know, the tech company with the virtual reality goggles — has apparently been secretly funding a propaganda outfit attempting to take down Hillary Clinton with a barrage of dank memes.
According to The Daily Beast:
A Silicon Valley titan is putting money behind an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and circulating internet memes maligning Hillary Clinton.
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey financially backed a pro-Trump political organization called Nimble America, a self-described “social welfare 501(c)4 non-profit” in support of the Republican nominee.
Luckey sold his virtual reality company Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, and Forbes estimates his current net worth to be $700 million. …
Nimble America says it’s dedicated to proving 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.
There’s a weird and elaborate Reddit backstory to all this, featuring bitter infighting, accusations of con-artistry, and even a cameo from Milo Yiannopoulos, all of which I’m too lazy to summarize, so you’ll have to read about it over on The Daily Beast.
H/T — TZer0
brain explodes
What…?
I mean I’m not surprised. Luckey has a minor history of being a complete d-bag towards people who are poorer than him. But just…
I can’t even comprehend this.
Hey guys, I think I found Trumps missing parrot software…
Welp, I know one VR headset I won’t be buying…even on the off chance that I ever buy one.
Funniest joke:
That’s not how shitposting works, Grandpa.
Wait, this dork is 24? And he’s this awkward?
Not like I needed another reason to not buy a VR headset. How far can one be up his own ass? Apparently so much it bends around like a Mobius strip.
Just remember, gamers: Donald is the Boss who will not go away on shutdown.
He should start a company with Notch. They’re made for each other.
An idle thought: if Trump wins, what will the eventual Trump Presidential Library contain?
@Moggie
Copies of The Art of the Deal, of course.
Nude paintings of himself, with the proportions wildly unrealistic.
@Moggie
Impossible to tell. Stuff would be rotated in and out depending on what he’s decided last week that he’s always liked or disliked. I do imagine Bannon or someone else might sneak Mein Kampf in there. It’ll get found at some point, and he’ll look at the reporter smugly and ask if they’re triggered
Okay, I’m just gonna say this, but, like, David put in the article that Oculus was sold to Facebook back in 2014. WHoever this clown is doesn’t own it anymore. He gets no money. You don’t need to boycott shit because they literally do not own nor get a penny from the sales of Oculus as of 2014 because they no longer own it. It’s like not buying H.P. Lovecraft books because he was an anti-semitic and you don’t want him to have any of the money…even though he’s decades long dead.
Calm down.
But, about the actual topic of the post…
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What the fuck. This is…this is fucking…I don’t even…I just…that’s the most stupidest thing I have ever seen.
They fucking made a company to put fucking Trump hair on Pepe the Frog.
What ARE they, for fucking real?
http://67.media.tumblr.com/07d93f98ea7654ea462367d46b0a5a62/tumblr_o1an9eLJbD1ujuk5ho1_500.gif
God, please, I hope a majority of those billions they got went into this company and it sinks because there’s nothing I would love more than to hear this douche fuck went bankrupt from this fucking stupid idea.
I hope the artist of Pepe the frog sues them for copyright infringement.
So in other words, very large and manly…..hands?
These wastes of skin are throwing God knows how much money towards idiotic memes. Imagine how that money could have genuinely helped people.
..,People are bastards.
Hello Ladies. Missed U. Hope U missed me 2. Here to share my ever increasing wisdom on gender issues – to wit:
Trump must be stopped at all costs. He’s a gynocentrist (conservative), which isn’t nearly as bad as a hyper gynocentrist (feminist/progressive). Only Hillary, an over the top hyper gynocentrist, can continue to inspire and forward the MGTOW mindset – most notably through feminism’s inherently and ever increasing ridiculous hypocrisy and double standards.
Hope she lives long enough to accept her place as the first female feminist president – and I mean that. The alt-reich is just another status-quo force set upon us to return men and women to a patriarchal society, which is obviously bad for both men and women. Hillary, on the other hand, represents a mountain of new material with which to free both men and women from relationship bond[age].
Great new video you should all see. Always remember – MGTOW helps women, too. Enjoi:
Yay ethics!
(I got to do it this time.)
Wow, I didn’t realize that coherent thought was the matriarchy. Good to know.
Hello there Mark. How’s the Funky Bunch doing? Hope you don’t mind, but I’ll be putting you on my ignore list now. Just thought you should know. ^_^
@Handsome “Punkle Stan” Jack
Wait! You mean that all these years I’ve been buying works by authors and artists long dead and they won’t reap the benefits of my patronage!? 🙁 Thanks, Obama!
(Please note, the above may contain traces of sarcasm.)
As for Mr. Palmer Luckey (that’s pretty close to being an Awesome McCoolName!) I have to wonder how exactly the young gentleman has managed to lose over half of his 2 billion dollars in around two years. Bad investments I guess. Still, he’s young, so he’ll probably get at least better with money, if not actually wiser. Then again, he may end up as a future Republican candidate for president…
Mark,
Can’t you try something new? We’ve all seen that post before. Branch out. Live a little.
No, Mark, we did not miss you.
@Mark,
You made it abundantly clear in our last conversation that you’re here to poke us into reacting for your own amusement. It’s far from the erudite investigation that you made it out to be – it’s selfish and rude and, in a Kantian sense, immoral. Dressing it up with your increasingly convoluted diatribes does nothing more than to make you look desperate and miserable.
Want to have an actual discussion? Drop the façade and engage honestly. You’ll receive nothing but well-deserved mockery otherwise.
Oh Mark, never change no matter what anyone says!
Seriously, it cuts down on how much I have to read to get up to date in the comments here.