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Date: November 11th, 2018 11:47 PM
Author: territorial mood blood rage

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/top-facebook-vr-exec-may-have-been-fired-for-his-trump-support-2018-11-11?siteid=rss&rss=1

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213573)



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Date: November 11th, 2018 11:52 PM
Author: rough-skinned business firm gunner

"May have"

Lol

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Date: November 11th, 2018 11:52 PM
Author: lake house voyeur



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Date: November 11th, 2018 11:55 PM
Author: umber double fault mother

Shitlib intolerance drove Peter Thiel out of SF due to his Trump support. Of course, at the same time the shitlibs have no problem working for Thiel's companies, many of which operate like criminal organizations.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213604)



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Date: November 11th, 2018 11:55 PM
Author: clear multi-colored lay

the discrimination conservatives face in media, academia, silicon valley is far worse than anything minorities experience in modern day america. jonathan haidt is right: coming out as conservative in those places is really like coming out as gay in the 1950s Bible Belt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213610)



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Date: November 11th, 2018 11:56 PM
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Date: November 11th, 2018 11:57 PM
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Date: November 11th, 2018 11:58 PM
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Date: November 11th, 2018 11:59 PM
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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:06 AM
Author: soul-stirring filthy pit

To be fair, ethnicity is something you’re born with. Trumpism is the path chosen by idiots. It’s okay for companies to fire employees for being idiots

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213663)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:11 AM
Author: clear multi-colored lay

"ethnicity is something you're born with," said the lib who believes women can have penises.

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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:18 AM
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Date: November 12th, 2018 1:08 AM
Author: Bipolar Degenerate Coldplay Fan

Devastating

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Date: November 12th, 2018 5:08 AM
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Date: November 12th, 2018 5:10 AM
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Date: November 12th, 2018 5:39 AM
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Date: November 12th, 2018 5:49 AM
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Date: November 12th, 2018 8:17 AM
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Date: November 12th, 2018 8:20 AM
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Date: November 12th, 2018 8:21 AM
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Date: November 12th, 2018 3:55 PM
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Date: November 12th, 2018 4:20 PM
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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:16 AM
Author: Arousing Maroon Gas Station Stain

Isn't your political affiliation a protected status wrt employment in shitlib California? Lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213716)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:19 AM
Author: territorial mood blood rage



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:33 AM
Author: Free-loading stage

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-employment-discrimination-31690.html

Yep.

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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:35 AM
Author: Free-loading stage

So if shitlibs were fired for being Democrats you would be ok with that?

Somehow I doubt it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213791)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:43 AM
Author: concupiscible deer antler

When exactly is the free market good? When you like the outcomes?

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Date: November 12th, 2018 2:49 AM
Author: spruce irate hunting ground roommate

You misjudge the issue we're taking with this situation - we're not advocating the executive needed more legal protections and regulating against this sort of bias. We're taking issue with the values of our pop-culture / tech culture and how these cultures are so satirically biased towards the left that this atmosphere is such they don't even care that their double standards and hypocrisy are exposed in broad daylight in these cases, right out in the open for all to see who care to look.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214130)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 5:59 AM
Author: Comical bearded set

...Yes.

Take it, pussy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214398)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 9:15 AM
Author: Free-loading stage

I would turn this around: when exactly are anti-discrimination and labor protection laws good? When they protect the people you like?

If the rule is "you can hire and fire whoever you want, no protection. You want to refuse to hire Jews, blacks, libs, whoever, that's fine" then fair enough. Such is life and we can all deal with it. If the rule is "you are protected if you are any kind of lib but if you're not then you have no protections" then that's bullshit Stalinism.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214851)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 1:35 AM
Author: well-lubricated scarlet factory reset button nursing home

Being black or Hispanic certainly better correlates to being low IQ than does voting for Trump. Did you mean something else by 'idiot'?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213966)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 4:24 PM
Author: glittery garrison persian

Lots of things are paths chosen.

Religion is a path chosen. Can companies fire muslims for choosing to follow Islam?

So is getting married and getting pregnant or having kids.

So is immigration status.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37217854)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 8:22 PM
Author: Purple shitlib black woman

Paulie you really have poor reasoning skills.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37219453)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 1:26 AM
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Date: November 12th, 2018 8:37 AM
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Date: November 11th, 2018 11:59 PM
Author: Violent yarmulke

so hope he sues......and wins big league

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213629)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:17 AM
Author: cerise principal's office

somebody with wsj access please copy/paste this article

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-did-facebook-fire-a-top-executive-hint-it-had-something-to-do-with-trump-1541965245

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213722)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:19 AM
Author: French titillating shrine

wsj.com

Why Did Facebook Fire a Top Executive? Hint: It Had Something to Do With Trump

Kirsten Grind and Keach Hagey

14-18 minutes

Facebook Inc. FB -1.97% executive and virtual-reality wunderkind Palmer Luckey was a rising star of Silicon Valley when, at the height of the 2016 presidential contest, he donated $10,000 to an anti-Hillary Clinton group.

Mr. Luckey, it turns out, was put on leave, then fired, according to people familiar with the matter. More recently, he has told people the reason was his support for Donald Trump and the furor that his political beliefs sparked within Facebook and Silicon Valley, some of those people say.

Internal Facebook emails suggest the matter was discussed at the highest levels of the company. In the fall of 2016, as unhappiness over the donation simmered, Facebook executives including Mr. Zuckerberg pressured Mr. Luckey to publicly voice support for libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, despite Mr. Luckey’s yearslong support of Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the conversations and internal emails viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Tech’s Political Tilt

Employees at major tech companies donated much more to Hillary Clinton’s campaign than to Donald Trump’s.

Employee contributions to presidential campaigns (2015-16)

Alphabet/Google

Hillary for America

Facebook

$1,547,930

$461,604

Twitter

Donald Trump

for President

$122,613

$24,892

$4,060

$4,669

Total employee political contributions (2015-16)

$8,501,288

$2,634,732

Facebook

Twitter

$651,234

Employee contributions to presidential campaigns (2015-16)

Alphabet/Google

Hillary for America

Facebook

$1,547,930

$461,604

Twitter

Donald Trump

for President

$122,613

$24,892

$4,060

$4,669

Total employee political contributions (2015-16)

$8,501,288

$2,634,732

Facebook

$651,234

Twitter

Employee contributions to presidential campaigns (2015-16)

Alphabet/Google

Hillary for America

Facebook

$1,547,930

$461,604

Twitter

Donald Trump

for President

$122,613

$24,892

$4,060

$4,669

Total employee political contributions (2015-16)

$8,501,288

$2,634,732

Facebook

$651,234

Twitter

Employee contributions to presidential

campaigns (2015-16)

Alphabet/Google

Hillary for America

$1,547,930

Donald Trump

for President

$24,892

Twitter

Facebook

$122,613

$461,604

$4,060

$4,669

Total employee political contributions

(2015-16)

$8,501,288

$2,634,732

Facebook

$651,234

Twitter

Mr. Luckey’s ouster from Facebook was a harbinger of battles that have broken out over the past year over the overwhelmingly liberal culture of Silicon Valley, which has given the tech industry public-relations headaches and brought unwanted attention from Washington.

Executives from Facebook, Twitter Inc. and Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., have had to answer questions from lawmakers about potential bias in their treatment of conservative viewpoints. Tech executives concede that Silicon Valley is predominantly liberal—Mr. Zuckerberg said in Senate testimony that it is “an extremely left-leaning place”—yet they have steadfastly maintained that politics doesn't play a role in how they police content on their sites.

Mr. Luckey, who is 26 years old, hired an employment lawyer who argued to Facebook that it had violated California law, according to people familiar with the conversations, in pressuring the executive to voice support for Mr. Johnson and for punishing an employee for political activity.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate in April.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate in April. Photo: Alex Edelman/Zuma Press

Then Mr. Luckey and his lawyer negotiated a payout of at least $100 million, representing an acceleration of stock awards and bonuses he would have received through July 2019, plus cash, according to the people familiar with the matter. The stock awards and bonuses were a result of selling his virtual-reality company, Oculus VR, to Facebook in 2014 for more than $2 billion, a deal that netted him a total of about $600 million.

A Facebook spokeswoman said in an email: “We can say unequivocally that Palmer’s departure was not due to his political views. We’re grateful for Palmer’s contributions to Oculus, and we’re glad he continues to actively support the VR industry.”

Some people at Facebook say it is too simplistic to say Mr. Luckey was fired over his politics, and that his lack of candor during the episode involving the donation and his diminished role in Oculus operations were larger factors.

Mr. Luckey, in an emailed statement, described the episode as being in the past. “I believe the team that remains at Oculus is still the best in the VR industry, and I am rooting for them to succeed.”

Mr. Luckey started Oculus in 2012, while still a teenager, with a $2.4 million crowdfunding campaign. He dropped out of the journalism program at California State University, Long Beach, to work on the company, along with co-founder Brendan Iribe. When they sold to Facebook, Mr. Luckey became the face of the virtual-reality industry, appearing on a Time magazine cover saying the technology was “about to change the world.”

Mr. Luckey, a Long Beach native who was home-schooled by his mother, has sometimes been out of step with the largely liberal culture of Facebook. A fan of big cars and military gear, he drove a giant tan Humvee with machine-gun mounts and orange toy guns. He once was forced to move it from the Facebook parking lot after someone called the police in to investigate, according to people familiar with the episode.

Mr. Luckey has been a longtime supporter of Mr. Trump and wrote a letter to the then-reality-television star in 2011 urging him to run for president. Mr. Luckey has told friends that reading Mr. Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal” at age 13 sparked his entrepreneurial imagination.

Mr. Luckey has sometimes been out of step with the largely liberal culture of Facebook.

Mr. Luckey has sometimes been out of step with the largely liberal culture of Facebook. Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

Mr. Luckey’s fallout with Facebook began in September 2016, when the Daily Beast revealed his $10,000 donation to NimbleAmerica, a pro-Trump group that paid for advertising mocking Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 election. At least one billboard paid for by the group featured a picture of Mrs. Clinton and the phrase “Too Big to Jail.”

In one post on a Reddit chain dedicated to supporting Mr. Trump, the author, called “NimbleRichMan,” said he was donating to the group so it could spread unflattering memes about Mrs. Clinton. In the same post, the author professed to support Mr. Trump’s campaign, saying “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.” The Daily Beast wrote that Mr. Luckey had said he used the pseudonym NimbleRichMan.

Mr. Luckey’s donation and the perception that he might be associated with a group that at times traded in misogynistic and white-supremacist messages, as some news stories reported, ignited a firestorm. Facebook employees expressed anger about Mr. Luckey on internal message boards and at a weekly town hall meeting in late September 2016, questioning why he was still employed, according to people familiar with the complaints.

“Multiple women have literally teared up in front of me in the last few days,” an engineering director, Srinivas Narayanan, wrote in one internal post following the meeting. Mr. Narayanan didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Leaning Left

Political contributions from San Francisco Bay Area residents in the last two midterm elections.

Contributions, in millions

$250

million

200

150

100

50

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2018

2014

Some virtual-reality-game developers said they wouldn’t work with Oculus in the future.

In an apology posted on Facebook that month, Mr. Luckey denied writing the NimbleRichMan posts and said he “contributed $10,000 to NimbleAmerica because I thought the organization had fresh ideas on how to communicate with young voters through the use of several billboards.”

The post said Mr. Luckey is a libertarian and planned to vote for Mr. Johnson in the election.

“I need to tell you that Mark [Zuckerberg] himself drafted this and details are critical,” Facebook Deputy General Counsel Paul Grewal wrote to a lawyer for Mr. Luckey in a September 2016 email, attaching an early draft of the statement, according to the emails reviewed by the Journal. The draft said Mr. Luckey wouldn’t be supporting Mr. Trump in the election.

Mr. Luckey has told people he did vote for Mr. Johnson, but only to avoid having his credibility questioned if he was asked about the issue under oath in unrelated litigation.

The apology went through many drafts, and Mr. Luckey ultimately approved changes suggested by Facebook, according to people familiar with the process. The statement didn’t include a public disavowal of Mr. Trump, but did say he would support Mr. Johnson. Mr. Luckey has supported libertarian candidates in the past.

The Facebook spokeswoman said that throughout the process, “we made it clear that any mention of politics was entirely up to him.”

Soon after the apology was posted, a writer at the Daily Beast posted on Twitter emails he had received from Mr. Luckey in which he said he made at least one post attributed to NimbleRichMan—a contradiction of his public statement. Mr. Luckey has since told people he wasn’t the author, but took responsibility because the post reflected his views.

Facebook executives were irate about the conflicting statements, with some believing that Mr. Luckey had lied to them, according to people familiar with the matter.

Facebook launched a human-resources investigation, which in 2016 found that Mr. Luckey hadn’t violated internal policies, say people familiar with the investigation. His performance reviews were consistently positive, including his last in June 2016, those people say.

A Facebook office building in Menlo Park, Calif. Mr. Zuckerberg said in Senate testimony that Silicon Valley is “an extremely left-leaning place.”

A Facebook office building in Menlo Park, Calif. Mr. Zuckerberg said in Senate testimony that Silicon Valley is “an extremely left-leaning place.” Photo: Michael Short/Bloomberg News

Amid the uproar, Facebook placed Mr. Luckey on paid leave, the people say. After Mr. Trump won the election in November, Mr. Luckey donated $100,000 to his inaugural committee. By December 2016, he had returned to work to prepare for and testify at a trial, although he was only on campus for a couple of days.

A videogame publisher, ZeniMax Media Inc., had sued Facebook shortly after it purchased Oculus, contending that a ZeniMax employee took proprietary code when he joined Oculus. After a trial, a judge ordered Facebook to pay $250 million, plus interest. Facebook has appealed.

After the verdict, Mr. Luckey got a call from a Facebook executive asking him to resign, according to people familiar with the call. He declined, seeking instead to get reinstated. Facebook said no.

Ultimately, Mr. Luckey was fired. His last day was March 30, 2017.

After the incident, Mr. Luckey became more, not less, political. One month after he left Facebook, he hosted a fundraiser for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. He has since founded Anduril, an Orange County-based tech company focused on using artificial intelligence to protect troops, performing search-and-rescue missions and bringing “Silicon Valley thinking and funding to defense,” according to its website.

Recently, Mr. Luckey came as close as he has ever come to publicly divulging the circumstances of his Facebook departure. At Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit in Los Angeles last month, he told CNBC that “it wasn’t my choice to leave.”

Write to Kirsten Grind at kirsten.grind@wsj.com and Keach Hagey at keach.hagey@wsj.com



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213737)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:27 AM
Author: cerise principal's office

ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213764)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:37 AM
Author: lake house voyeur

In the fall of 2016, as unhappiness over the donation simmered, Facebook executives including Mr. Zuckerberg pressured Mr. Luckey to publicly voice support for libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, despite Mr. Luckey’s yearslong support of Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the conversations and internal emails viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213796)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 1:10 AM
Author: jet histrionic jap



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213897)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:40 AM
Author: Vigorous Mentally Impaired Dysfunction

this is insane.

also 180 dude NimbleRichMan, i remember that episode

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213808)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 2:50 AM
Author: Rose boltzmann

truly insane!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214131)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 3:46 AM
Author: At-the-ready nibblets

"he drove a giant tan Humvee with machine-gun mounts and orange toy guns. He once was forced to move it from the Facebook parking lot after someone called the police in to investigate"

Imagine the horrible twat who called that in.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214227)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 5:58 AM
Author: thriller twinkling school cafeteria really tough guy

Cr that gave me a vivid image of a shrieking lib

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214395)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 9:01 PM
Author: balding bonkers brethren

can we find a pic of this vehicle?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37219771)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:17 AM
Author: ruddy odious clown

Ljl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213724)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:24 AM
Author: Violent yarmulke



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213751)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:25 AM
Author: clear multi-colored lay

he could be a chad if he worked out and ate right

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213756)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:26 AM
Author: Violent yarmulke

dood is in his 20s and worth close to a billion. he'll make out ok

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213760)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:34 AM
Author: Abnormal overrated sandwich



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213789)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:39 AM
Author: Free-loading stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213805)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:57 AM
Author: territorial mood blood rage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213863)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 1:03 AM
Author: misunderstood associate useless brakes

yeah it sucks but his situation is pretty good compared to some lolyer getting shitcanned out of the blue with 300k in debt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213880)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 1:06 AM
Author: Violent yarmulke

????????

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213883)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 2:22 AM
Author: territorial mood blood rage



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Date: November 12th, 2018 12:41 AM
Author: excitant internal respiration hospital

punished 'femme' snake

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37213809)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 2:30 AM
Author: Harsh passionate location

haven't heard much about these VR goggles lately

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214107)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 3:01 AM
Author: obsidian private investor love of her life

So, no one is going to mention the quote about women tearing up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214151)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 6:05 AM
Author: thriller twinkling school cafeteria really tough guy

You did. You started a conversation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214407)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 3:18 AM
Author: Buck-toothed karate

Luckey is not the best standard bearer since VR has always been a bit of a boondoggle and my experience with Oculus goggles is that they are clunky. Brendan Eich's crucifixion is far more infuriating.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214184)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 8:36 AM
Author: lavender boiling water reading party

Cr re Eich

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214674)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 3:31 AM
Author: Razzle-dazzle Blathering Friendly Grandma

Warms my Soviet heart.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214203)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 3:46 AM
Author: At-the-ready nibblets

Are you turning into a Russian version of nyuug?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214230)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 9:21 AM
Author: well-lubricated scarlet factory reset button nursing home

he's almost as annoying at this point

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214878)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 8:41 AM
Author: frisky razzmatazz market

conservatives should be shunned by society until they're willing to put aside their sadistic hatred

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214688)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 8:42 AM
Author: Appetizing lilac boistinker theater stage

this is how I feel about people who are so into partisan politics that they say stuff like "conservatives should be shunned blah blah blah."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37214689)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 10:18 AM
Author: frisky razzmatazz market

ooh you're so smug and above it all i really admire your ability to not care about anything but yourself

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37215243)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 10:09 AM
Author: Abnormal overrated sandwich

This.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37215168)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 4:18 PM
Author: Laughsome Red Affirmative Action

Open borders it is then

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37217802)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 8:25 PM
Author: Purple shitlib black woman

(Guy who isn’t the least bit hateful)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37219477)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 4:19 PM
Author: mustard cracking organic girlfriend genital piercing

He is a lump of flesh, real salt of the earth type

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37217815)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 4:35 PM
Author: spectacular useless juggernaut casino

So just to make sure I’m following: these are the same people who are supposedly censoring our only “fake news” dispassionately and without any regard for whether such content favors liberals or conservatives?

If Zuck and his execs wouldn’t make an exception for one of their own, and actively pressured him, later firing him, for his conservative views, lol @ the lies Zuck and others told Congress about filtering content.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37217938)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 8:19 PM
Author: lake house voyeur



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Date: November 12th, 2018 8:19 PM
Author: Appetizing lilac boistinker theater stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37219429)



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Date: November 12th, 2018 8:24 PM
Author: Purple shitlib black woman

Zuck is actually relatively pro free speech compared to most of the ghouls at these SV shitholes and thr nuthink pols that inhabit academia and the media who implant ideas in their heads,

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130746&forum_id=2#37219472)