@mekkaokereke @joeinwynnewood @Alon
good analogy
so julia roberts is wwii radio propaganda from the allies:
like:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fake-british-radio-show-helped-defeat-nazis-180962320/
the axis had their shit slingers too:
axis sally and tokyo rose
(but the real story of "tokyo rose" is how Iva Toguri D'Aquino was treated after the war, racist overreaction):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Rose
if only there was a way to target bigots
but as you say it spills over and has negative effects on the left's strategy