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Lemming posted:I'm afraid you just have not been paying attention. Trump said that the lawyer in one of his court cases should be removed because he's Mexican and therefore can't be objective. I am not making this up. Then he claimed that, after a gold star family (their son was killed in Iraq) gave a speech at the DNC criticizing him, the wife was "probably not allowed to say anything," implying her husband wouldn't let her speak because they're Muslim. This literally happened. Trump had multiple lawsuits brought against him in the 80s because he wouldn't rent to black people. They would mark their applications with a "C" for colored and then deny them. They settled out of court. Sure, go ahead. I should warn you that I don't care about politics at all, though.
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d0s posted:please stop replying to the gbs guy I wouldn't if I didn't think he was sincere and just wasn't aware for whatever reason.
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Lemming posted:I wouldn't if I didn't think he was sincere and just wasn't aware for whatever reason. Lol, come on man.
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Lemming posted:I wouldn't if I didn't think he was sincere and just wasn't aware for whatever reason. yes but it's clear from his last post he isnt sincere and doesnt care about anything anyways so just stop responding so we can focus on the giant sack of poo poo that's palmer luckey.
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d0s posted:no they're not unless he ratchets up the retardation a bit more, people accept this kind of behavior from rich tech weirdos, for some reason This goes quite a bit beyond "X donated money to Y campaign" or whatever. On top of that the negative press in such a small community, the optics of the things he actually posted on his other account, not to mention a couple of devs saying the don't want to support oculus users because of his stupidity makes it much more of a PR bomb. I mean if it was just bad opinions... jesus, theres not a tech company alive you could support, but this isn't just bad opinions.
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Al-Saqr posted:Hey I'm not racist I just gave tons of money to street-level SS thugs and I like how clean the municipal streets became once Hitler came to power, does this make me a bad dude? Killing anything outside of the womb is perfectly acceptable, as long as they can think and move on their own, didn't you know?
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Hamelekim posted:Active support of a major political candidate should not get you fired. But they may make sure he keeps under the radar, or just ignore the issue altogether. This is what I was waiting for. In ~capitalism~ you have to take on it completely, including the part where if you (as an individual with all your opinions and beliefs) do damage to your employer and their business interests then it is in your employer's best interested to preserve it's revenue and method of generating it by ejecting you as an employee. This is the logical way this goes because Palmer is worth less than positive for Facebook (maybe, I don't know what he does at Oculus at all besides being some poster-child PR person) if this is indeed some sort of scandal. So yes, active support of a political candidate should get you fired if it causes damage to your employer if you are the type to support the vague 'idea' that Trump supports. That's what makes this so good, the Trump way is to fire Palmer immediately and distance yourself from him to protect your earnings. Not me personally because I am cool and logical but logic goes out the window when it comes to Trump so  Tom Guycot posted:As much as this feels like its blowing up, Facebook better come down hard and fast on the giant piss/man baby, or they're going to get stuck with an association to trumpism and racists.
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Tom Guycot posted:This goes quite a bit beyond "X donated money to Y campaign" or whatever. On top of that the negative press in such a small community, the optics of the things he actually posted on his other account, not to mention a couple of devs saying the don't want to support oculus users because of his stupidity makes it much more of a PR bomb. I think there is a huge overlap between people who are into VR/PC gaming in general and people who would be 100% supportive of his actions. if this dude was in control of a car company or clothing company or something then yeah, but this is video games, the most vocal people are the ones who consider him a hero for this
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also google turns up a whole bunch of stuff about nimble america being some sort of scam run by a brietbart writer and palmer basically got suckered out of his money? if that's true that's kinda hilarious e: the same dude took donations to run a college fund for white kids lmao
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KakerMix posted:This is what I was waiting for. In ~capitalism~ you have to take on it completely, including the part where if you (as an individual with all your opinions and beliefs) do damage to your employer and their business interests then it is in your employer's best interested to preserve it's revenue and method of generating it by ejecting you as an employee. This is the logical way this goes because Palmer is worth less than positive for Facebook (maybe, I don't know what he does at Oculus at all besides being some poster-child PR person) if this is indeed some sort of scandal. So yes, active support of a political candidate should get you fired if it causes damage to your employer if you are the type to support the vague 'idea' that Trump supports. That's what makes this so good, the Trump way is to fire Palmer immediately and distance yourself from him to protect your earnings. Good thing I'm a dirty socialist then. You have a right to your awful opinions as long as they don't involve anime girl pillows.
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Jesus Christ this thread the last few pages. Knifegrab was right.
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d0s posted:I think there is a huge overlap between people who are into VR/PC gaming in general and people who would be 100% supportive of his actions. if this dude was in control of a car company or clothing company or something then yeah, but this is video games, the most vocal people are the ones who consider him a hero for this I would agree with this, except when I looked at the oculus reddit, its basically a 1000 post long rant by 90% of the users there pissed at him, and I agree. I like oculus. I like the software, I like the games, I like the headset, I prefer it to the vive and am happy I went with it, but them not nipping this in the bud or letting it get tacitly supported would make me turned off of it and the company. As far as I can tell he hasn't even done anything in years, they have legions of brilliant programmers, engineers, artists, designers doing all the great work, even at the beginning he needed Carmack to make it work, but just as a mascot it would turn me off if they don't do something about this/him.
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Cojawfee posted:Lol if people are willing to shut out a chunk of the already tiny VR market because some nerd spends money to make memes. Poetic Justice posted:The Oculus Home walled garden is to keep the undesirable Vive users out. Al-Saqr posted:Oculus Riss Macht Frei e: just checked and it's all over the tech media, as you'd imagine. The Kotaku article is a quick overview. Luckey has an alternate reddit account in case you hadn't gathered from the above posts: http://kotaku.com/oculus-rift-founder-funding-trump-shitposters-1786977098 Also: https://twitter.com/CodyBrown/status/779135745135116288 El Grillo fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Sep 23, 2016 |
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Double post for e: and one more, for joy: https://twitter.com/Nedworkin/status/779182214705577984 El Grillo fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Sep 23, 2016 |
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Jesus Christ this electoral season. And the entire polarization in the US population. Do not fall for the trap of thinking that anything Trump says isn't a vicious, hateful lie.. What a totally reasonable and balanced statement. Why the gently caress are you all so worked up about someone supporting that joker Trump. Just make a meme or something. Get it out of your system. Namaste
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SirTagz posted:Jesus Christ this electoral season. And the entire polarization in the US population. It is a reasonable and balanced statement. Welcome to 2016, have you been paying attention these last several months?
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I was wondering what the gently caress with all the replies, but this is the best friday morning present. Palmer is a funding member of the deplorables, and proud of it (but not proud enough to not post under an alias on reddit lmfao) NimbleRichMan [deleted] Can't make this poo poo up. 2016 has been just the best.
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SirTagz posted:Jesus Christ this electoral season. And the entire polarization in the US population. if he was just supporting trump as a presidential candidate I'd think it was dumb but not a big deal, just a rich guy doing what rich people do. he just went full alt-right and it's kinda indefensible tbh
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Yeah, he's not just supporting Trump, he's literally paying to have racist memes (that are also pro-Trump because Trump's campaign is based on racism) posted on the Internet. Which is both really stupid and really awful.
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That is pretty amazing, although I want to point out one thing. He writes he encouraged Trump to run last election, but Trump would have had to get into the 2012 presidential race by late 2011 or early 2012. That was before the Oculus Kickstarter when Palmer was pretty much a nobody, so something isn't adding up.
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Poetic Justice posted:That is pretty amazing, although I want to point out one thing. He writes he encouraged Trump to run last election, but Trump would have had to get into the 2012 presidential race by late 2011 or early 2012. That was before the Oculus Kickstarter when Palmer was pretty much a nobody, so something isn't adding up. he posted that stuff 6 days ago 
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d0s posted:he posted that stuff 6 days ago Right, that person 6 days ago wrote "I have supported Donald's presidential ambition for years. I encouraged him to run in the last election." Which would have been 2012, when Luckey was still a nobody. Was he hanging out and talking with Trump in 2012? Also, why would he use an alt account to hide this, but then confirm it was him to The Daily Beast? Something seems fishy. edit:And also, Palmer doesn't drink alcohol, he's mentioned that in an interview before, although I guess that could change. somethingawful bf fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Sep 23, 2016 |
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Poetic Justice posted:Right, that person 6 days ago wrote "I have supported Donald's presidential ambition for years. I encouraged him to run in the last election." Which would have been 2012, when Luckey was still a nobody. Was he hanging out and talking with Trump in 2012? Also, why would he use an alt account, but then confirm it was him to The Daily Beast? Something seems fishy. He drinks the alcohol of opportunity, friend.
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Poetic Justice posted:Right, that person 6 days ago wrote "I have supported Donald's presidential ambition for years. I encouraged him to run in the last election." Which would have been 2012, when Luckey was still a nobody. Was he hanging out and talking with Trump in 2012? Also, why would he use an alt account to hide this, but then confirm it was him to The Daily Beast? Something seems fishy. I am really hoping this hits the mainstream media. You've just got to laugh and I want the world to laugh at this sad, ignorant little richkid. e: sorry to keep posting from Twitter but there are some good ones going around: https://twitter.com/JonDadley/status/779223554046984192
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Poetic Justice posted:Right, that person wrote 6 days ago wrote "I have supported Donalds' presidential ambition for years. I encouraged him to run in the last election." Which would have been 2012, when Luckey was still a nobody. Was he hanging out and talking with Trump in 2012? Also, why would he use an alt account, but then confirm it was him to The Daily Beast? Something seems fishy. "supported" and "encouraged to run" could mean anything. he's obviously had money (or his parents' money) for his entire life. checking his twitter likes, his girlfriend's twitter, his facebook, etc makes it clear as day he's a proud alt-right insane person. he hasn't come out and denied it. you're really reaching e: also just look at a picture of the dude, he's that annoying chubby kid from middle school who always makes up dumb grandiose poo poo
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El Grillo posted:Of course. He's making poo poo up. He also claims in that post that he "started with nothing" and worked his way up, which is also bullshit. Well then why would he use a fake account to conceal all that, and then let the Daily Beast of all places know it was him?
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El Grillo posted:I am really hoping this hits the mainstream media. It already did, someone posted a cnmbmncmc or whatever it's spelled link earlier in the thread Poetic Justice posted:Well then why would he use a fake account to conceal all that, and then let the Daily Beast of all places know it was him? Being rich and lucky doesn't mean you're not also a dumbass. Just look at Trump
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d0s posted:"supported" and "encouraged to run" could mean anything. he's obviously had money (or his parents' money) for his entire life. checking his twitter likes, his girlfriend's twitter, his facebook, etc makes it clear as day he's a proud alt-right insane person. he hasn't come out and denied it. you're really reaching When someone says "I encouraged him to run" to me that means specifically talking or communicating with that person. I don't know how else you could read that. And he hasn't denied it because it's like 1am when the story came out, a perfect time to do a hit piece and let the misinformation flow before a correction is released.
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Poetic Justice posted:When someone says "I encouraged him to run" to me that means specifically talking or communicating with that person. I don't know how else you could read that. And he hasn't denied it because it's like 2am when the story came out. He's been rich for a long time, it's not out of this world that he talked to Trump before?
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Poetic Justice posted:Well then why would he use a fake account to conceal all that, and then let the Daily Beast of all places know it was him? he used a fake account because it's a bad look, and I wouldn't put it past daily beast to do some shady poo poo like have some insider in whatever private circles people like that speak openly in
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d0s posted:he used a fake account because it's a bad look, and I wouldn't put it past daily beast to do some shady poo poo like have some insider in whatever private circles people like that speak openly in The article specifically says "The 24-year-old told The Daily Beast that he had used the pseudonym “NimbleRichMan” on Reddit with a password given him to by the organization’s founders."
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