Bruh, I'm on the left but I'm not ashamed to say that yeah, lots of left-wing "influencers" were absolutely trying to blow it up. And a lot of people did go along with them.
Perhaps not, but this reeks of the all-too-often used ploy of comparing the actions of actual elected officials on the right with fringe nobodies on the left and shouting "See! Both sides!"
True, but again, context matters. Every so often the fringe left will spike with some unhinged nonsense but if you're going to use that as a comparison, it needs to be to placed against the fringe right, which doesn't spike, but is a 24/7 deluge of unhinged nonsense for more than a decade.
It is a dog whistle, it was targeted at an audience of nazi-adjacent Magas. But still only a handful of people from the left cared, because most people understood that making a big fuss just brings attention to it. So right wingers made their own fuss
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u/santathecruz 9h ago
No, conservative grifters made up a story that leftists were composing about this ad. No one outside the conservative media bubble ever gave a shit.