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[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 114 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The thought that I could one day have a stroke and lose my mental faculties like this is scary ngl. Fetterman still being in a position of power is a failure of the system at this point. I'd feel bad for the guy if he wasn't a rabid genocide supporter.

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 87 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He was racist and aggressive long before this.

The same man who held a random Black man at gunpoint also being a zionist and having outbursts like this isn't a huge jump, white people just didn't care before because uhhh he wears shorts all the time isn't that funny

His behavior has gotten worse since his stroke but he's been like this

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[–] RuthBaderGonesburg@hexbear.net 56 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Strokes CAN cause personality changes but they can also just make you lose your filter. It becomes too taxing to keep up the mask.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 38 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I would argue your filter is a huge part of your personality. Many people have harmful impulses, internalized bigotry and think mean thoughts sometimes. Becoming a better person is not about cleansing your thoughts of the impure, it's much more about keeping your bad impulses in check. Sharing things you would like to keep for yourself, watching a movie with your partner you couldn't care less about, being kind to someone who makes you feel intense jealousy, these kinds of things. I don't think it's fair to say that losing your filter because of a stroke "reveals who you really are".

I know Fetterman had terrible views before the stroke already. It's more so that I think it's scary how you can have a stroke and suddenly become so much worse to the people around you because you lose control over yourself.

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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What's crazy is they will just vote him in again

I just don't understand this country

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 40 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Just want to point out that he was running against dr oz in the general

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

"Rubbing against Dr Oz" well as long as everyone contented I guess...

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 26 points 6 days ago (4 children)

everyone contented

Didn't know Fetterman and Oz were on OF lol

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I'm not fixing mine and you're a coward for fixing yours.

AUTO CORRECT HAS SPOKEN, WHO ARE WE MERE MORTALS TO CHALLENGE ITS WILL?

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[–] nothx@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago

VoTE bLuE nO mATtEr wHo!!1!11!!11!!

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 92 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Bill Maher [...] suggested that Fetterman should run for president

visible-disgust

[–] fox@hexbear.net 87 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Maher's job is to be wrong about everything

[–] someone@hexbear.net 52 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A sociopolitical Jim Cramer.

[–] RION@hexbear.net 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Inverse Cramer etf got shut down cause it sucked ;_;

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

LJIM, which was the opposite of the inverse and just followed his stock advice, also got shut down because of poor returns.

[–] RION@hexbear.net 19 points 6 days ago

Bogleheads vindicated at every front 😎

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago

I'd make a joke about buying $NANC instead, but even it is down YTD. Smh no way to make money in this market liberalism

[–] RuthBaderGonesburg@hexbear.net 19 points 6 days ago

Reverse Cassandra

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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 41 points 6 days ago

The boomers' brains are not in good shape, folks

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 35 points 6 days ago

2028 Large Adult Clown funny-clown-hammer

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 87 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Before long, Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do?”

Can we be absolutely certain he isn't just some promotional gambit for the new Shrek movie at this point?

[–] D61@hexbear.net 53 points 6 days ago

shrek-troll

"Genocide it like an onion, it has many layers."

shrek

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 23 points 6 days ago

If it is, we should direct them to the beautiful Shrek fansite https://shrekland.net/

Fuck it. If it is then I'll watch the silly ogre dad movie

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 78 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Before long, Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk, according to one person who was briefed on what occurred.

timmy-pray Come on John, let the self-hate flow through you.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 43 points 6 days ago (1 children)

oh that's easy John, it's because you are a bloodthirsty zionist who has abandoned his humanity

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 30 points 6 days ago

He's pure Id in the same way a rabid animal is.

[–] simontherockjohnson@lemmy.ml 44 points 6 days ago

Fetterman reportedly got on a table and started screaming "I'm being crucified like a dog in the street!"

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 69 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

edit: oof, crispy text.

Edit2: fixed the crispy text.

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 63 points 6 days ago

Before long, Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk, according to one person who was briefed on what occurred.

Downfall (2004) fuhrer moment

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 67 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do Pennsylvania or DC have any laws about involuntary commitment? Because uh, it really seems like that is necessary here.

His wife has already talked about how she’s scared he’s gonna hurt her, dude bought a gun a few months ago and gives off some of the most annihilaty family-annihilator vibes I’ve ever fucking seen.

She needs to go to a mandatory reporter and say “I’m scared for the lives of me and my children” and get his ass thrown in an institution.

[–] RuthBaderGonesburg@hexbear.net 82 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Emotionally unstable? Owns guns? Has access to the capital building?

timmy-pray

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 69 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Family annihilator? geordi-no

Senate annihilator? geordi-yes

John Fetterman comes into the Capitol building with machine gun

"WHERE IS TRUMP?! WHERE IS TRUMP?!!!" he yells

"Here! Here!" panicked congressmen points out to prsident

"DONALD!!! RUN, I WILL SHOOT" yells Fetterman while spraying everyone except Trump with lead

[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 30 points 6 days ago

Not the leftist hero I expected, but I'll take it

[–] inTheShadowOf@hexbear.net 57 points 6 days ago

Obituary writers living for moments like this chefs-kiss

I'm not sparing even a half second of sympathy for this proudly, pro-genocide ghoul

[–] erik@hexbear.net 53 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Our first hot couch guy senator. Another glass ceiling shattered.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 30 points 6 days ago

Has he considered simpping for Zionazis even more?

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 45 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Asked by a reporter in a Senate corridor what he would say to people who are concerned about him, Fetterman said: “They’re not. They’re actually not concerned. It’s a hit piece. There’s no news.”

And one more thing. I'm not mad. Please do not let them say that I'm mad.

[–] dragongloss@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago

Before long, Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk, according to one person who was briefed on what occurred.

I'M NOT MAD! maddened

[–] miz@hexbear.net 45 points 6 days ago

no suffering is too much for Mr. "Kill Them All"

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 46 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think we all know what the humane option is here.

[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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[–] RION@hexbear.net 43 points 6 days ago

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy

real shame this fucker survived his stroke or whatever it was his brain did

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 36 points 6 days ago

He already crashed out, in his car, on the fucking freeway. Dude is unwell

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 6 days ago

Conservatives — who had long made Fetterman a target for his progressive politics — have sprung to Fetterman’s defense.

This is a good sign.

[–] JohnBrownsBawdy@hexbear.net 23 points 6 days ago
[–] Simmy@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 5 days ago

I really thought this guy was Biden's bodyguard a while back, then Netanyahu visted U.S and had to look him up.

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