'I Care About Little Kids Dying': Ocasio-Cortez Hits Back at Fetterman Over Gaza
'I Care About Little Kids Dying': Ocasio-Cortez Hits Back at Fetterman Over Gaza
The New York lawmaker responded to Fetterman's dismissal of her call on Monday for an arms embargo on Israel, which has received billions of dollars worth of weapons and other military aid since the Hamas-led October 7 attack.
"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".
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.
Such a fucking disappointment
"Look what you made me do!"
"stop hitting yourself"
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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 don't think Sinema ever had a stroke and I believe she went from "progressive" into a piece of shit once she got elected, so I'm going with "he's a lying piece of shit" as the more likely reason.
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.
no, i don't get behind any of those excuses
I had to move my family away from Swissvale because of that piece of shit and his poison factories and his looting
he said he was going to clean up the steel mills and then he went back on it, that isn't democracy
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.
He's a pretty big disappointment. Apparently always been a brat who does what he wants but... Like not at all what we were expecting from him. But now he's elected so he's free from having to care what he does for money.
Man my dyslexia made me read “I care little about kids dying” and I was like wtf
Yeah, I don't know if it was dyslexia but I initially read "I don't care about little kids dying"...
Given her political stance it amounts to the same thing.
Does she care about children dying? This will be the legacy of Biden/Harris in Gaza
they are two salient issues of the same desire. placing an embargo on israel could at least slow their roll enough to allow the innocents to shed themselves of hamas and their ilk. or it could have. now, though, those innocents having had to deal with all the aggression thrown directly at them cannot really be faulted for turning away from israel and their supporters
We can’t even care about innocent people anymore. The right ridicules that as dangerous. We have to frame being against killing innocent people as being concerned for children. But then the right diminishes that even further. No! Only unborn children deserve protection, but only when politically expedient.
In truth, the right wants to be able to kill anyone they want with impunity.
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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?