back in 2016 -- as soon as editors started greedily gobbling up the pitches from lazy freelancers -- DM'ing with extremely online racists became synonymous with "journalism"pic.twitter.com/hXC5U5nNKs
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So true. Their ideas are toxic and unfortunately, using the internet to radicalize young people, who really don't know much about anything
Meanwhile, there are 100s of stories - 100s! - written by freelancers "journeying to the heart of the alt right." What exactly was that? And where was it located? Mom's basement somewhere in the great plains?
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The free market should have sorted this out. Editors -- sellers of ideas in the marketplace -- should have balked at creating something out of nothing. Instead, they gave this piffle national prominence. The "dirtbag left" and the "Bernie bro" are similar twitterbrain fantasies
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Oh for sure. I don't think I've met any Bernie people who act like the "Bernie Bro" stereotype. Seemed like those were mostly Russian accounts and some fell for it, and some because they wanted it to be true
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Hahahhaha so true. I guess it could be Richard Spencer's mom's basement but yeah, it seems like they're intellectualizing something that cannot be intellectualized--which is a problem
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