“The tragedy in Gaza is 100% on Hamas,” Fetterman wrote on social media with a screengrab of a Hill headline outlining Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks. “Stop using civilians and hospitals as shields, surrender, and release all remaining hostages—and this ends.”
What a dismissive piece of shit.
You think CTE causes people to become assholes?
A stroke like Fetterman’s often produces even larger personality changes. Sometimes it’s for the better, but often it tends to effect the forebrain where things like empathy and critical thinking happen. If it gets other parts in the hind brain that’s where you get the other stereotypical stroke symptoms of slurring speech and poor muscle control.
Fettermen wasn’t perfect, but he wasn’t this huge of an asshole before the stroke
It doesn’t excuse any of his shit behavior either. I just always think “why” is an important question when talking about someone’s behavior. Ironically enough when it happened Republicans called for him to resign and Dems blindly defended him. After the personality changes he’s Republicans favorite Dem and most of his own party hates him.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he runs as a Republican next election.
Edit:
Guess I should have “more of an asshole”.
I think it probably has a lot more to do with the fact that pro Israel pacs gave him 250k. You’re just viewing the corruption in realtime
He was openly zionist before he was elected, we all just looked the other way or coped with “Well zionism is the default stance in America, he seems like a decent person, so when he actually learns, he’ll change his mind”.
Only the way he is expressing his view can be attributed to the stroke.
I could be wrong:
But his stroke was before the primary.
Did he take AIPAC money in the primary?
Because if he took it for the general, that was a post stroke decision.
Like I said, I don’t know, and I couldn’t find it anywhere, I may be wrong and he took it in the primary
The man got 250K from pro-Israel lobbyists. He’s in a position of authority and is being paid to endorse a specific viewpoint that is in direct violation of US and international humanitarian law. I’m not going to give him the benefit of the doubt here.
It’s not the benefit of the doubt.
If a stroke changes you it changes you. If it makes you an asshole, it’s not just ok to be an asshole.
Every other asshole also has a reason to be an asshole, recency doesn’t matter.
But I legitimately don’t know if he took AIPAC money in the primary before the stroke. If he did, then yeah, he was already an asshole before the stroke. Doesn’t mean a stroke couldn’t make him a more blatant asshole. Lack of impulse control is also a common symptom, people lose their filter and that’s rarely a positive thing.
It’s not excusing it, but we need to understand it so we learn how to deal with it and hopefully prevent the next person from being an asshole.
Fettermen wasn’t perfect, but he wasn’t this huge of an asshole before the stroke
NARRATOR: But he was.
You think CTE causes people to become assholes?
Not sure who mentioned CTE or how it’s relevant to Fetterman.
A stroke like Fetterman’s often produces even larger personality changes.
Agreed. This reminds me of a biography of FDR I read, explaining how his term went worse after his own stroke.
Fettermen wasn’t perfect, but he wasn’t this huge of an asshole before the stroke
Credit to alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml for https://jewishinsider.com/2022/04/john-fetterman-says-hell-lean-in-on-u-s-israel-relationship-as-senator/
Here’s a choice quote from a pre-stroke Fetterman,
Fetterman said he is “equally passionate” in his opposition to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel.
Also remember that he
backed legislation at the state level, signed into law six years ago by Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Tom Wolf, barring the commonwealth from pursuing contracts with companies that participate in boycotts of Israel.
Finally,
Fetterman … confirmed … that he has … sought counsel from a variety of advocacy groups, including … AIPAC
Again, that’s all pre-stroke. So he might have been better at hiding or spinning these things pre-stroke, but it doesn’t seem like his beliefs have really changed because of the stroke.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he runs as a Republican next election.
I would be. The closest I can find to that is this quote from him (from the above article), but this was pre-stroke.
I’m not really a progressive
My grandfather had a stroke at 81. He did not in fact become an asshole, he just got a little slower and spent less time working on his old truck. This is 100% on fetterman for having shitty opinions and being bitterly dug in. I don’t think it’s fair to all the wonderful people affected by strokes to give him that out.
This is who hes always been, but the only thing VBNMW liberals saw was that D in front of his name. We tried to warn them, but they always seem to know better
Why would Hamas de-escalate? They’re people are being systemically eradicated and have been for over 70 years.
we should be pushing for a ceasefire and a two state system.
I agree that we should be aiming for a peaceful solution but a two-state solution would be bad IMO. It shouldn’t be an us vs them kind of government. Every western government has a system where people of all backgrounds and faiths can pursue any lifestyle or job they wanted, including in the government and elected positions. Why can’t be the same here? Why must there be a divide between Muslims and Jews.
Fetterman is terrible
you don’t live in a democracy if your choices are between fetterman and dr Oz
To be fair to the piece of shit Fetterman, he ran on a very progressive platform.
Then he had that stroke and now he’s one of the least progressive members of Congress.
The question is, was he always a lying sack of shit? Or did the stroke literally change his mind?
I really would like to see some studies on that topic “does cognitive decline skew your position to the right”. If it does it’s usually slowly over many years. But fetterman had a huge decline suddenly and basically in love with genocide now. (I still believe he didn’t think like that before).
Would make sense in a way - stripping away all nuance from the world by means of deteriorating perception makes people only see good and bad or my team / their team.
It would be interesting to see.
There’s a condition called cerebral microvascular disease.
Basically individual neurons die, but because the brain is fairly plastic the surrounding neurons pick up the slack.
That is of course until the brain is stressed, at which point the surrounding neurons drop the extra duty to focus on just their own jobs.
Once the stress goes away, the neurons pick up the slack again.
Now here’s the somewhat scary part. Something like 5% of adults over the age of 50 have it, to an extent that can be seen on a CT scan.
And 100% of those 90 and older have it.
It’s a major cause of dementia in older adults but is usually seen as momentary brain fog.
Fucking I don’t ever want to have a stroke and become like that douchebag. I wish I could get my $100 back that I donated to his campaign.
Really amazing how much and how well Fetterman hid how much of a garbage human being he is.
Who would have guessed there’d be actual evidence that brain damage makes you more Republican.
Man my dyslexia made me read “I care little about kids dying” and I was like wtf
