Common Dreams - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)
Information for Common Dreams:
MBFC: Left - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
Wikipedia about this source
Search topics on Ground.News
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ocasio-cortez-fetterman-gaza
“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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Hamas certainly does not de-escalate the situation, but that’s not their role. Hamas and Israel are intertwined entities and they both play God with the lives of Palestinians. As peace loving people, we should be pushing for a ceasefire and a two state system. Anything other than that will only perpetuate the loss of life.
Obligatory “Fetterman is a piece of shit liar”.
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.
Does she care about children dying? This will be the legacy of Biden/Harris in Gaza
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.
At least according to most people on Reddit/Lemmy.
You’re the first person to make a connection between Lemmy, caring for something, and Trump/Russia. You trolling?
If you’ve never been called a trumpist or a russian on lemmy for opposing genocide, it’s because you’ve never opposed genocide on lemmy.
No one’s being called a trumpist or Russian because they oppose genocide, they’re being called that because they insist on pretending that splitting the vote in favor of the fascist party won’t make the genocide they claim to oppose even worse.
