198
damn
(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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.
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.
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.
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.
BOoOoOOoTThH sSSsSsSsiiiIIidESSsssSS
yeah now we have fetterman and oz is still in government.
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.
You and me both sister
He started with a 180, and now I'm so dizzy I feel like Alice in Wonderland.
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.
Omg I would hate to be inappropriate and outrageous!!!
Nah, then he'll watch. 🤢
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.
If his wife really is an immigrant someone should report that. Maybe a lot. Just so ice has all the info.
And then call the local PD. 🍿
spidey.jpg
"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.
Jesus, John -- quit being a senator and just go record podcasts in your truck for a living.
One more stroke & he’s back as a progressive.
Monkey Paw:
He becomes so progressive, he's now support giving voting rights to AI.
Yes, each instance of Siri, each instance of Gemini, all get a vote.
And now Tim Apple becomes POTUS. (Because the US has the biggest iPhone Marketshare)
🫠
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
Seriously fuck John Fetterman. What a bag of turds.
Turds'd make better fertilizer, but he'll do.
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.
No need to abolish ICE, just return it to what it was in 2015 or so.
We don't need essentially a whole new authoritarian police with more funding than any other such agency ever and more than two branches of the military, with ability to grab anyone at all with impunity (no due process required if they claim to think the target is not a citizen) and seemingly working to be able to also remove citizenship formally from people.
I thought if you married someone they get a green card?
At this point, I don't think having a green card matters anymore.
Alex Jones just had a caller that was asking how to get his undocumented wife on the list of the “good ones.”
He's one of those candidates that run as Democrat then switch after being elected.
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.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
198 points (99.0% liked)
Microblog Memes
8572 readers
1017 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
Related communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS