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.
It’s so famous in fact that it’s frequently heavily exaggerated and distorted via telephone game from people who’ve never even minimally researched this case but decide to cite it for this claim anyway.
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.
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.
Strokes can break your brain fundamentally change your personality and values. Idk if that actually happens 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.
Nah, they’re all having one while slurping up that Faux trooth.
In our hate for Dr Oz, we accidentally raised up a separate monster.
Turns out both options were horrible monsters. As is tradition.
Sometimes the lesser evil is still really evil.
And still lesser.
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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.
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
Brain damage causes conservatism
He started with a 180, and now I’m so dizzy I feel like Alice in Wonderland.
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.
“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.
ICE is a bunch of cowards. If they were really removing violent and scary undocumented immigrants who break the law and don’t pay taxes, you’d hear about more shootouts with ICE. Instead, it’s farmers and young families who are working, or their kids. It’s such a pity such these cowards got such a huge funding bump.
Fuck ICE. The people that sign up for that sham of an organization peaked in high school and are mad at the world because of their irrelevance. Nobody loves or cares for these people. They exist to inflict pain to fill a void where a personality, ambitions, and empathy should be. They have nothing to give or contribute to the world.
ICE is a bunch of cowards.
Like all fascists.
Jesus, John – quit being a senator and just go record podcasts in your truck for a living.
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.”
Gisele should primary him.
Wish there was a 25th amendment for senators. This dude’s brain is melting out his ears
Nah, I think the whole progressive thing was his wife’s influence.
I’ve met too many assholes from York county who are just like him.
Seriously fuck John Fetterman. What a bag of turds.
Alex Jones just had a caller that was asking how to get his undocumented wife on the list of the “good ones.”
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.
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
Yeah, but it’s not his problem until it affects him or his family.
If his wife really is an immigrant someone should report that. Maybe a lot. Just so ice has all the info.
She’s apparently a good person who’s as outraged at his behavior as the rest of us, so maybe don’t do that.
And then call the local PD. 🍿
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Fetterman is what Blue No Matter Who brought us.
Pretty sure its his cognitive decline secondary to his stroke.
Your brain stops working and you become republican.
It’s interesting that having a stroke decreases your empathy, and as a result you become r.
He run against a person that calls itself doctor Oz. Do you think that ghoul would be better in any way whatsoever?
Fetterman votes with every Republican bill. What would be the difference except showing Democrats that these candidates are not deserving of winning?
So we should have let the Republican win?
How the fuck are we still this stupid?
It’s the same dumb ass “Democrats aren’t doing enough for Palestine, so I’m not voting for them” bullshit even after we’ve seen time and time again how that works out.
Take a look around at your actual options. Those are the choices. Not some mythical candid in your head. They have to be on the actual fucking ballot and not just in your dreams.
Also, Fuck Fetterman. He’s a selfish, backstabbing piece of shit. This isn’t about defending him. It was still the least shitty choice. That’s where we are.
Yes. If a Democrat refuses to comply to basic demands show them they will not be allowed to win.
That’s literally what primaries are for.
Except he either has brain damage or lied in the primary.
He’s unfortunately not. Just a liar and a prick in a time where we are easily fooled because of our few good options.
I thought if you married someone they get a green card?
At this point, I don’t think having a green card matters anymore.
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.
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.
Maybe he’s sick of her
