• whatisallthis
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    11 months ago

    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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      11 months ago

      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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        11 months ago

        Yeah I mean if a 4 year old talks to me I can usually decipher what they are trying to say.

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        11 months ago

        Guess she just knows her audience is buzzword-craving 21 year old Redditors then.

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        11 months ago

        If you write for salon.com, you are not distinguished. It’s a basically a left wing tabloid and should not be misconstrued as a news website.

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      11 months ago

      Could you elaborate exactly what you find problematic about that wording?`Those terms seems to be a pretty accurate description of the phenomenon.

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        11 months ago

        It’s cringe and embarrassing to me. That’s all I’m saying.

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      11 months 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”.