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.
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?
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.
Yeah I mean if a 4 year old talks to me I can usually decipher what they are trying to say.
Amanda Marcotte is the author, a reasonably distinguished and well known figure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Marcotte
Guess she just knows her audience is buzzword-craving 21 year old Redditors then.
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.
Could you elaborate exactly what you find problematic about that wording?`Those terms seems to be a pretty accurate description of the phenomenon.
It’s cringe and embarrassing to me. That’s all I’m saying.