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"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate (www.salon.com)
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[–] 33 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Salon.com articles always sound like a 21 year old Redditor wrote them.

“The grifters that make up the troll-industrial complex are not okay.”

Who writes this lmao. Do they spin a wheel of buzzwords and just write a sentence with whatever comes up?

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  • [–] 50 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It made sense to me and I didn't even look twice. Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Jordon Peterson, etc. = the grifters that she talks about in the article, and the "troll-industrial complex" are their paid followers or their suckered in fan boys. It's been a thing since 2015 at least.

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  • [–] [S] 34 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Amanda Marcotte is the author, a reasonably distinguished and well known figure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Marcotte

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I kind of like the "troll-industrial complex", but agree on your over take on the writing. Gone are the days when writers could produce great alliterations like "nattering nabobs of negativity".

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