I think the hard part of analyzing the rise of the media grifters, from Tim Pool and Dave Rubin to Peter Coffin to the ex-yoga teachers spreading pastel QAnon, is that grifters a quintessential American figure who've existed here longer than the
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
country has and that makes it hard to sort out what's genuinely new here. I think the biggest change is that grifting has become, since I think the emergence of the right wing radio hosts and the televangelists, about selling attention itself and
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
not a specific product. Like the grifters are still selling things (Alex Jones and his brain pills ect ect) but the real grift is getting attention, which you can then turn into viewers for advertisors or just sell to directly. This means that you
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
see people rapidly jumping between grifts (look at who jumped on anti-vaxx and horse drugs shit for example) but it also makes it easier for people to get into the game, all you have to do is just sell people something they want to see (a gay
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
ex-leftist, a Black conservative, a tradwife leftist, a Vietnamese communist). And I think we're seeing more of it as a result of the collapse of the real economy in the wake of 2008 and then again in 2020. Can't find a job? Work sucks? Go grift
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
on social media. There's also more specific things like the spread of yoga teaching classes churning out shit tons of yoga teachers with no students to teach since teaching people how to teach is way more profitable than teaching actual classes,
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
a huge pool of like failed actors and comedians realizing that anyone with a bit of charisma and acting ability can fight their way to the top of the social media ladder by pretending to be a MAGA hardliner or a communist. But they're here now and
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
honestly I have no idea how to get rid of them
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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