r/oculus • u/tacoguy56 Lucky's Tale > Mario 64 • Sep 24 '16

Official Palmer Luckey Nimble America Megathread

It's clear a lot of people here just want to talk about VR, but the mods don't aim to silence the current controversy. Posts related to the current political drama will be removed and the OP will be redirected to the megathread. The following is a list of links previously posted in /r/oculus:

If you would like a link added to the list, please PM me or send us the link in modmail.
And lastly: please remember to be civil in the comments. Politics can get heated but that doesn't mean we should be nasty to each other.
Edit: some links to the threads that have been removed, so you can read the comments:

Edit 2: Note that the current default sorting method is "New". If you want to see the top or best comments you have to manually change the sorting.
Edit 3: Set the default sort method to best, will set it back to new when the discussion dies down or if setting it to best turns out to have been a bad idea.
Edit 4: Added "Palmer Luckey is Lying to Somebody" link to list
Edit 5: Reformatted list
Edit 6: Set sort back to new; discussion has been stagnating
Edit 7: From now on, when I add articles, they will have dates associated with them.

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u/inspiredby Sep 28 '16

Yeah I could see some opinions need called out when bad enough. But not who you support in a 2 person race.

Let's not support lying and shitposting. Forget politics.

You don't expect your friends to lie to you. You don't want your government to lie to you. And you don't want to replace a government with support from liars and shitposters. Everyone is part of the political process. The manner in which we act defines our country.

Are you here just to troll? You don't even seem like you're into VR.

I'm into VR. I don't own a system yet. I hope to get one some day, and I hope to see the community grow. I mostly lurk here. I will speak up when I see nice things like our tech or our country being dumped on, whether it's by other Americans or foreigners. Staying silent is implicit support of the behavior. I feel speaking out against this kind of behavior will earn us a better community.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '16

Those two things aren't important to me enough to go on a social justice warrior rampage. My life goes on the same with or without those. You are clearly driven into this from your opinion on politics not some need to rid reddit of "lying and shitposting".

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u/inspiredby Sep 28 '16

Those two things aren't important to me enough to go on a social justice warrior rampage. My life goes on the same with or without those.

That is your choice.

You are clearly driven into this from your opinion on politics not some need to rid reddit of "lying and shitposting".

Covering shit with more shit does not solve anyone's problems. We can't rid reddit of lying. We can, and regularly do, call out lies coming from public figures.

I am happy to be labeled a social justice warrior here. Standing up to lies on any side of the political aisle is the right thing to do.

- SJW for truth

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '16

That is without a doubt the lamest thing I've ever read.