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Re:Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better by danielvf on Monday December 17, 2018 @08:33AM (#18698806)
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.
Re:Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better by TheodolphusRose on Monday December 17, 2018 @11:02AM (#18699748)
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-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.

Re:Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better by happytoexplain on Monday December 17, 2018 @09:19AM (#18699035)
Wasn't it more than that?
Re:Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better by danielvf on Monday December 17, 2018 @10:18AM (#18699420)
@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.]

Re:Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better by josefresco on Monday December 17, 2018 @11:14AM (#18699830)
"Dana Rohrabacher, neither of whom is even vaguely alt-right"

Uhhh what now?

Re:Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better by 83457 on Monday December 17, 2018 @10:45AM (#18699620)
I thought the donation was to some other group making political memes and not a candidate....?
Re:Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better by dwild on Monday December 17, 2018 @01:36PM (#18700941)
Wasn't he funding a group that was posting fake news and memes online?