The practice of sifting through the comments of blogs, email threads, discussion groups and other user generated content in an attempt find choice quotes proving that the advocates for or against a particular political opinion are unreasonable, uninformed extremists.
When Jonah has no substantive arguments for his point, he frequently resorts to nutpicking in order to demonize progressives.
Someoen who, rather than attack the merits of your argument will bring up completely irrelevant shit, like how you mispronounced a word or, in the case of the internet, typed a word wrong.
Person 1: That makes absolutely no fjcking sense!
Person 2 (Nitpick): Oh, I'm so sorry that didnt make any *fjcking* sense. Jesus, anyone who types the word fuckingwrong must be an idiot. I win the argument.
Person 1: Hey do you follow @newpicky on tiktok?
Person 2: Yeah, they know all and see all, it's amazing!
Person 3: Yeah, I'm mutuals with her!
Person 4: Duh, they're my favorite mutual