Don't be fucking obtuse about email screen shots, Reddit posts, Twitter activity and his own damn apology (as if he has no incentive to lie and everything else is a well-created conspiracy). If you want to be intentionally naive about this, fine -- but nobody's going to put up with spreading FUD in a thread full of evidence.
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Palmer Luckey issue statement on actions on Nimble America
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Don't be fucking obtuse about email screen shots, Reddit posts, Twitter activity and his own damn apology (as if he has no incentive to lie and everything else is a well-created conspiracy). If you want to be intentionally naive about this, fine -- but nobody's going to put up with spreading FUD in a thread full of evidence.
curiouscharles
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Hierophant
Banned
true, i might be overthinking things for the sake of dramatization but i still don't get how he thought he could get away with straight up lying if he knew the journalist had proof
I don't really get Luckey's PR narrative here.
1. Nobody knows about his connection to Nimble America.
2. Daily Beast exposes him as co-founder.
3. Luckey admits helping fund Nimble America, but he totally didn't co-found it.
4. Daily Beast just received emails claiming to be from him, exposing all of this, with the single erroneous detail that he was a co-founder rather than a person funding it.
Am I following all of this correctly? PR disaster over? This narrative makes sense? He's a public face of one of the biggest companies in the world? Urgh.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Dailybeast: "Did you write the NimbleRichMan post?"
Palmer's brain: "Tell a lie, tell a lie!"
Palmer: "Yes."
Palmer's brain: "D'OH!"
NegativeCero
Banned
From the Daily Beast authors
Fuck him if this is true.
Edit: I, and many others have sent him tweets calling him on his shit. Curious if he just comes clean at this point.
It looks like that Palmer statement was crafted by Oculus (dont know about Facebook)
I'm new be nice
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This is fucking nuts
Intheflorsh
Banned
Dude talks a big game behind an anonymous account but of course the minute he's exposed he bitches out with lies and nonapologies. Fuck him and his company.
Teknopathetic
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"Am I following all of this correctly? PR disaster over?"
Your chain of events is slightly incorrect, those were the emails that Daily Beast originally received as their proof for their original article. They posted them to contradict Luckey's statement that he didn't make any posts under NimbleRichMan.
Your chain of events is slightly incorrect, those were the emails that Daily Beast originally received as their proof for their original article. They posted them to contradict Luckey's statement that he didn't make any posts under NimbleRichMan.
Please continue, governor.
lol, it worked alright.
Indeed, and at that point, you are a bad person. I'd like that person to look me in the eyes and tell me Trump cares about me as much as any straight Christian white male in the nation.
No one is that naive. No one.
But I mean, his twitter isn't fake is it? He seems to show a lot of support for Donald Trump, despite his 'vote going to Gary Johnson'. Pretty clear contradiction of his statement.
No. He's the public face of a small company that was bought by a bigger company. Facebook isn't even one of the bigger tech companies out there.
NoFaceNico
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I think this is the follow up to that
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/779506558409510912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
I wish he would have posted Palmer's responses to his question for clarification, even a simple "yep!" would do. Otherwise with just a snippet of the email conversation it seems like Collins is leading him. I'd rather see it written word for word from Palmer himself.
Are you saying everything that's happened is hearsay? Even his GF twitter stuff and him liking certain people and comments?
Hierophant
Banned
this is the craziest year i've lived through in my short life thats for sure
He didnt even just say 'yes'.
He said 'i didnt make the account, i just post on it', so he wrote some nuance to it.
SO HE SAT DOWN AND THOUGHT ABOUT HIS RESPONSE TO THAT QUESTION.
Okay, so go to Nimble America's website. You will clearly see an organization that is for Trump, not for Johnson or libertarian politics.
There's evidence in broad daylight that Palmer's lying.
didn't think to look here earlier. Holy shit you are right. In his FB post he probably thought one of his saving graces would be letting everyone know hes not voting for Trump. One skim through his twitter its painfully obvious thats complete bull as well.
Leona Lewis
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It's always fun to see who these folks fall over themselves to give benefit of the doubt to, and who they don't.
The great culling of 2016.
Come again?
I looked, Not enough evidence. Text is BS. The only real evidence is to live through Lucky's body and live out his actions and emotions.
Prophecy650
Member
I'm stupid.. sorry
We must wait until Minority Report becomes real.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Ugh, you ruined my joke. FINE, here's another take:
Dailybeast: "Did you write the NimbleRichMan post?"
Palmer's brain: "Tell a lie, tell a lie!"
Palmer: "I didn't make the account. But I do post on it."
Palmer's brain: "Braaavo...." *slow clap*
TheGreatMightyPoo
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........................
DontBeThatGuy
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No.
Tangled Up in Blue
Banned
Apologizing after you've been caught doing something almost never means that you're actually sorry for what you did. Instead, you're just sorry that you got caught and are trying to minimize the damage.
This is just damage control. Nothing more.
This is just damage control. Nothing more.
PepsimanVsJoe
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Leona Lewis
Banned
It's always the pretty ones...
It has like 12k employees. Google is about 60k, Microsoft is almost twice as many as Google.
Yeah I couldn't even find a single Gary Johnson like.
Damn, are you serious? I can't believe what I'm reading right now.
DirgeExtinction
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Aren't interviews usually recorded? No matter if it's via email, phone, in person?
Hmmm
I think that's very much a part of the techbro manifesto, yes: that they are the smartest and best; that they earned their place because they are smartest and best: and that everyone who didn't is just an idiot. Which in turn feeds into a particular ideology that has manifested this election cycle in self-styled libertarian techbro billionaires declaring their devotion to Trump.
The journalists already posted screenshots of the emails.
Yep.
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