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  • @CondensedPossum
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    17 minutes ago

    Fetterman is terrible

    you don’t live in a democracy if your choices are between fetterman and dr Oz

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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    -239 minutes ago

    Whoops, AOC just admitted she’s… checks notes a secret Trump supporter Russian bot in office because she cares about the deaths of children. At least according to most people on Reddit/Lemmy.

  • @[email protected]
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    10713 hours ago

    “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.

    • @givesomefucks
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      12 hours ago

      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.

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      Guess I should have “more of an asshole”.

      • @Eldritch
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        47 hours ago

        Fettermen wasn’t perfect, but he wasn’t this huge of an asshole before the stroke

        NARRATOR: But he was.

      • @quixotic120
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        2512 hours ago

        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

        • @[email protected]
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          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.

        • @givesomefucks
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          -112 hours ago

          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

      • @[email protected]
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        812 hours ago

        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.

        • @givesomefucks
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          312 hours ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            111 hours ago

            The man is able to connect the dots of receiving lobbying money and advocating for a certain position. He should be able to connect the dots of civilians dying, and saying that’s bad. Lots of people who suffer from strokes learn to control themselves and their personality changes. Fetterman just isn’t one of them.

            • @givesomefucks
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              011 hours ago

              We’re saying the same thing.

              An asshole is an asshole, it doesn’t matter what lead them down that path.

              Understanding why people are assholes is worth it because we learn how to deal with them, and maybe even prevent less people from becoming assholes later.

              Every society has X% of assholes, there’s never zero assholes, but it’s worth getting that number as low as possible.

              I think everyone agrees there’s more than there used to be, and would enjoy less assholes.

              • @[email protected]
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                19 hours ago

                I see what you’re saying. My mistake, I misinterpreted your comment. You’re honestly a better person than me that would see someone have this kind of stance and say “Let’s see where they’re coming from”. To me, it’s just another asshole that society should not even have to tolerate.

      • @anticolonialist
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        06 hours ago

        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

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    112 hours ago

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