It was his idea of having “a jolly good time”
The Daily Beast broke this story a few hours ago and it’s a stonker…
www.thedailybeast.com/…
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.
He teamed up with well known racist poster boy Milo Yiannopoulos on a new pro Trump PAC.
The Guardian has picked up the story…
www.theguardian.com/…
The group, Nimble America, was publicly unveiled last week on r/The_Donald, the portion of social news site Reddit dedicated to supporting the Republican candidate. In its introduction to the world, now deleted, a moderator wrote “What we’ve been able to accomplish here has been amazing and much bigger than any of us and certainly much bigger than Reddit.
“We’ve proven that shitposting is powerful and meme magic is real. So many of you have asked us, how we can bring this to real life.”
Luckey Palmer has now apparently admitted to being “NimbleRichMan” on a reddit dedicated to Trump.
That same day, a user named “NimbleRichMan” came forward and offered to match donations for the group’s first two days. In his post, also deleted, NimbleRichMan wrote: “You and I are the same. We know Hillary Clinton is corrupt, a warmonger, a freedom-stripper. Not the good kind you see dancing in bikinis on Independence Day, the bad kind that strips freedom from citizens and grants it to donors.
It’s a convoluted story and I’d recommend going to both articles to get clear in your heads exactly what the little a’hole has been up to.
p.s. The story is trending on twitter now, go here to see what people are saying…
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Here’s one that I liked because it shows a pic of Luckey which was on the cover of Time magazine (not with Trump though)