I still cannot believe how wrong I was about John Fetterman.
He was different before his stroke. There are multiple studies that correlate frontal and midline lesions in the brain with right-wing authoritarianism.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0137
https://www.ibroneuroscience.org/article/S0306-4522(25)00304-5/fulltext
I guess but I feel like supporting Gaza genocide isn’t something you just stroke into.
I don’t know enough about Fetterman’s past to make a judgement on how his stroke affected him, but you totally could. Brain damage can fundamentally change who you are as a person on every level, from memory to logic, or even spirituality. It can change or entirely destroy your ability to feel empathy, damping some emotions while amping up others. Strokes that fundamentally change personality like that are rare, but certainly not outside the realm of possibility.
There’s a famous case of a guy who got a railroad spike blown through his frontal lobe and he basically became a huge asshole.
Phineas Gage if anyone wants to look the case up. Classic psychology and neurology tale.
Of course this happened before modern scientific standards and procedures were mainstream, so take everything with a grain of salt.
I say this as someone with a lot of experience diagnosing and treating strokes…
You’d be surprised how cruel and violent some people can become after them.
I’ve seen the sweetest little grandma turn into a full on support for genocide nazi after one. More than once.
Actually, that’s kinda what these neuroscientists are finding happens.
Any evidence of it ever having the opposite effect?
That tends to happen with books, but wisely applying their contents to the dome.
Nah, they’re all having one while slurping up that Faux trooth.
Strokes can break your brain and fundamentally change your personality and values. Idk if that actually happened here or if he was always actually a piece of shit. It doesn’t matter ultimately. He’s a shithead now.
Is there like the opposite of a stroke someone can have that can make them a better person?
Shrooms
True, ego death does wonders to a person’s perspective. But it does not make the base parts work better.
But it does make me wonder how much evil would actually exist, if all humans were healthy.
Psychedelics can help you make connections that you would otherwise not have made, which I would consider to be better brain function, but it’s an inexact science (mostly because it’s hard to get funding to study psychedelics), so in practice they don’t always do that.
I’m of the opinion that humans would not be evil if they were healthy and educated about the consequences of their actions.
the alternative wouldve been MEMHET oz, but oz is in a position to do more harm than fetterman right now, it was a lose lose situation.
All we ever see on our ballots is two evils to pick from.
hence lose lose situation. fetterman was more like a turncoat after his encounter with AIPAC. HE WAS ALWAYS pos BEFORE. stroke+aipac unmaks his true colors.
Brain damage causes conservatism
In our hate for Dr Oz, we accidentally raised up a separate monster.
Turns out both options were horrible monsters. As is tradition.
Maybe more than 8.5% of voters should’ve turned out for the primary.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/results/pennsylvania/democratic-primaries/senate
Americans still thinking they can primary themselves out of this situation is hilarious to me.
Still? We haven’t tried in 40 years.
BOoOoOOoTThH sSSsSsSsiiiIIidESSsssSS
Sometimes the lesser evil is still really evil.
And still lesser.
I mean, I thought he was the best option during the primary, that was definitely wrong. And not everything can be blamed on the stroke.
yeah now we have fetterman and oz is still in government.
You and me both sister
He started with a 180, and now I’m so dizzy I feel like Alice in Wonderland.
He’s one of those candidates that run as Democrat then switch after being elected.
Never trust folk from York County.
I don’t trust anyone with a name like “John.”
I thought if you married someone they get a green card?
It takes years even if you’re legal. If you’ve committed any kind of crime, including working or being here illegally without a visa, you’ll get denied
From my personal experience, working is not necessarily an issue. As our lawyer put it, “everyone works, so don’t stress about that”. The things they seemed mostly concerned about were whether or not you entered the country legally, if you’ve overstayed your visa for reasons that would exclude you, and issues with the law.
Some methods of entering the country are harder than others when it comes to the approval process, such as tourist visas.
At this point, I don’t think having a green card matters anymore.
Sometimes the process takes years. Sometimes decades.
Took my ex something like 5 years and it was a pain in the aaaasssss.
That’s one path to it, but it’s not nearly that simple.
Abolish fetterman, he’s a lunatic and pathological liar. He only won his seat cause he ran a fake campaign as a Democrat then dramatically pulled a u turn on us.
Also he dresses like a slob, grow up fAtterman
Also he was running against fucking Dr. Oz
I’m 100% with ya until the dressing part. I don’t care how people dress as long as they get the job done (see Zelensky). Now, he is a fuckwad for running on one platform and flipping to the other, but that’s unrelated to his dress code. I remember thinking he was a good one for not giving a shit about appearances and only about making people’s lives better.
Zelensky’s outfit is very deliberate. Before the war he was clean shaven and wearing full suits like any other national leader. His beard is short, but groomed, and he typically wears fatigues or hoodies. In either outfit, his clothes are in excellent condition. It’s a good balance between looking professional and showing his people that he’s right there with them.
I don’t think he ran a fake campaign, I think he had a stroke and it changed his personality. We don’t realize how much our brains create who we are.
Yeah his wife divorced him I think cause he changed so much
I mean he was already a nepo baby prick pretending to be blue collar. And he very clearly had issues with people of color and firearms.
But I think the stroke made him feel more emboldened to not have to listen to others or made him more over confident in his own mental fortitude. It sure makes it look like he never intended to actually help anyone, and I think he would have just hid it better pre-stroke.
I guess I shouldn’t ever run for office because I hate wearing suits and don’t respect the office or the government enough to make myself uncomfortable for those assholes.
“Fuck you, got mine.”
- those guys
Every “conservative” is a closet narcissist. The only difference is they now feel comfortable tearing the mask off and no longer hiding behind the presumption they possess empathy or want what’s best for other people.
Idk about every conservative. Take Trump for example.
There’s nothing closeted about his narcissism.
Alex Jones just had a caller that was asking how to get his undocumented wife on the list of the “good ones.”
Yeah, but it’s not his problem until it affects him or his family.
Omg I would hate to be inappropriate and outrageous!!!
Nah, then he’ll watch. 🤢
people say he changed for the worse after his stroke, but it seems like he was always a bad politician and a teensy beensy bit of a freak who chased a black jogger with a shotgun.
so i feel its less that he turned bad and more like he got worse
You know someone’s no longer talking in good faith when they use words like “inappropriate and outrageous” to describe the suggestion of abolishing a department that didn’t exist 25 years ago. This is someone consciously and openly attempting to shift the Overton Window so that they don’t keep getting called on to defend the indefensible.
John “Trump Signs Are PA’s State Flower” Fetterman not talking in good faith? Say it ain’t so!
My favorite Fetterman moment was when he castigated Democrats for mentioning trump’s felony convictions, saying we were supposed to be the party of “forgiveness and redemption”. Imagine consciously throwing away a political advantage like your opponent’s crimes - it’s like refusing to blink when your opponent throws sand in your eyes.
For a moment I thought this was ProgrammingHumour and a funny response to calling someone’s code undocumented.
Then I read the full post.
He forgor 💀
Seriously fuck John Fetterman. What a bag of turds.
Turds’d make better fertilizer, but he’ll do.
Jesus, John – quit being a senator and just go record podcasts in your truck for a living.
