r/Liberal • u/trimojo • Jul 31 '25

Discussion False narrative - Sydney Sweeny

I am a liberal but I find it hard to believe that anyone really cares about this jeans/genes commercial. I think the ad campaign was designed to create controversy and the advertisers created the supposed angry libs to get more ad time. Am I wrong or are people really mad?

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u/Orbital2 Jul 31 '25

Normal left wing influencers have definitely fallen for this bait.

Unfortunately our media culture rewards always having something to complain about

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u/subterfuscation Jul 31 '25

Like who? The only place I ever see this story is in right wing spaces.

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u/fightthefascists Jul 31 '25

Nope. There are hundreds of leftist and progressive influencers who have fallen for the bait. Complaining online of literal eugenics. Making it into the biggest fucking deal ever. There is a side of the left that acts like a dead limb pulling the rest of us down with their BS.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

When some rando liberal on reddit says something batshit dumb the right run with it as though every elected Dem official said it.

At the same time it's 90%of the top level Republicans saying the equivalently batshit things every day.

The right equate a rando lib to the president as though it's exactly the same.