Palmer Luckey is funding Donald Trump's internet trolls with his Oculus money
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#2If you have any doubts about his true beliefs, just look here: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/palmer-luckey-alt-right.
Re: Palmer Luckey is funding Donald Trump's internet trolls with his Oculus money
#3Oh lord. Why did the term 'shitpost' gain such popularity? Such a nasty dismissive term.
Re: Palmer Luckey is funding Donald Trump's internet trolls with his Oculus money
#4And? I thought the US are the land of the free and brave.
The mainstream propaganda has done its job.
Re: Palmer Luckey is funding Donald Trump's internet trolls with his Oculus money
#5Oh lord. Why did the term 'shitpost' gain such popularity? Such a nasty dismissive term.
Forum culture on certain communities in the Internet lends itself to eyecatching buzzwords like 'shitpost'. Note, however, that shitpost is not always a negative term. Often, 'shitposting' is the game and the end goal; users laud one another for clever or topical shitposts, and particularly popular ones may be reprised in the form of memes. This trend encouraged the adoption of shitpost as both an affectionate and perjorative term.
Re: Palmer Luckey is funding Donald Trump's internet trolls with his Oculus money
#6And? I thought the US are the land of the free and brave. The mainstream propaganda has done its job.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from criticism. If your political ideology is to be a douche tech brotarian, don't be surprised to receive criticism for it. This guy is literally copying Putin's web brigades/online army. [Why does anything associated with Trump often lead to some relation to something Putin is doing, however, indirect?]
This reminds me of "libertarian" Peter Thiel, who backs Trump, whose Palantir profited mightily off of the military industrial contracts for surveillance. Can't people make a billion, thank their lucky stars, and chill out instead of becoming assholes?
Re: Palmer Luckey is funding Donald Trump's internet trolls with his Oculus money
#7And? I thought the US are the land of the free and brave. The mainstream propaganda has done its job.
I don't think the main issue here is that he is supporting or giving money to Trump. It's that in a time of awful political discourse, he is bankrolling an organization whose mission is literally dedicated to proving that “shitposting is powerful and meme magic is real.”
It's dumbing down discourse even more to stupid memes and caricatures and shitposts.
Re: Palmer Luckey is funding Donald Trump's internet trolls with his Oculus money
#8And? I thought the US are the land of the free and brave. The mainstream propaganda has done its job.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from criticism. If your political ideology is to be a douche tech brotarian, don't be surprised to receive criticism for it. This guy is literally copying Putin's web brigades/online army. [Why does anything associated with Trump often lead to some relation to something Putin is doing, however, indirect?] This reminds me of "libertarian" Peter Thiel, who backs Trump, whose Palan…
> Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from criticism.
Criticism, or a media wide "witch hunt" about his weight etc.? Oh, those memes and jokes don't count ? So far I've checked, he's still a legitimate presidential candidate. What the mainstream media doesn't obsess about is the Clinton business, not to mention censoring the whole health issue as a "conspiracy theory".
> Why does anything associated with Trump often lead to some relation to something Putin is doing, however, indirect?
I have no clue, because only one obsessing with Putin are the regressive left Americans. The boogeyman mantra apparently still stands and can be used effectively.
*Disclaimer: I'm a EU citizen and don't even believe in "left" or "right", because those are idiotic terms to frame political belief. The world isn't "left" or "right", or "white" or "black", or "blue" and "red". This is a very simplistic view of the world and I'm afraid very typical for US. I also believe a very simple life rule, the answers to "cui bono" (who benefits) and "who pays the check" ? Because those answers are at the end the only ones who have some weight, everything else is based on emotions.
I want less involvement of USA in the world affairs and the boosting of the empire, so I agree with Trumps words of minding your own business and cleaning crap at home first. Not to mention that Clinton is pro-war with Russia, Trump is not and that's fine with me.
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#9> Luckey has “liked” many alt-right memes
Thought crimes will not be tolerated. Extrapolating 'likes' to mean sympathy with racists (which is what Motherboard's article infers) is disgusting, surely.
This culture of witch-hunting people for what they liked on Twitter (which could mean anything from 'I like this' to 'interesting insight' - not that it matters) or who they choose to support is shameful.
Believe it or not, people are allowed to have views that differ from your own.
Re: Palmer Luckey is funding Donald Trump's internet trolls with his Oculus money
#10> Luckey has “liked” many alt-right memes Thought crimes will not be tolerated. Extrapolating 'likes' to mean sympathy with racists (which is what Motherboard's article infers) is disgusting, surely. This culture of witch-hunting people for what they liked on Twitter (which could mean anything from 'I like this' to 'interesting insight' - not that it matters) or who they choose to support is shameful. Believe it or n…
Luckey can express/support anything he desires and that's fine for him -- however ignorant his views are. But it's another thing to say we shouldn't call him out on it.