I’m not surprised Palmer Luckey is funding pro-Trump ‘shitposts’

Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey confirmed to The Daily Beast that he is money behind a group of alt-right “shitposters” who plan to spread memes disparaging Hillary Clinton, like a billboard in Pittsburgh that claims the former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State is “too big to jail.” And that revelation about the father of modern virtual reality, which he confirmed on Facebook, doesn’t shock me at all.

I’ve spoken with Luckey only a couple of times over the years, but we’re also friends on Facebook. That never really meant anything until July, when he responded to a news story I shared that points out that police deaths are more rare under President Barack Obama. Luckey claimed the story is “poorly written and poorly argued.” He also reiterated the argument the article was trying to debunk: that Obama’s criticism of the criminal justice system and support of Black Lives Matter protesters encouraged anti-police violence.