"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate

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"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate
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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?

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.

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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