Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his home state when things quickly devolved.
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.
As the meeting deteriorated, a staff member moved to end it and ushered the visitors into the hallway, where she broke down crying. The staffer was comforted by the teachers who were themselves rattled by Fetterman’s behavior, according to a second person who was briefed separately on the meeting.
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Can I get a summary of things he’s done to be hated?
You sure can. I’d recommend you use google or chatgpt for that. Thatd work much better than asking for what are essentially opinions from an anonymous chat room.
Yes of course. I’d hate to use a chatroom room to chat
thats the spirit.
Don’t know the complete history but he’s a huge Israel supporter.
Ran as progressive, firmly supports the Palestinian genocide and not in a centrist hand-wringing way, a Schumer “God gave it to us/them” way, confirmed a bunch of Trump picks for no reason, said a bunch of centrist bullshit in general.
Generally speaking, however, he’s voted along party lines when it counts and it’s not like he tiebroke anything.
Generally speaking, however, he’s voted along party lines when it counts and it’s not like he tiebroke anything.
This is why the DNC will fight to keep him exactly where he is. Just watch. In 3 years they will be funding his campaign against anyone who dares to challenge him in the primary.
Dude acted cool. Then he has a serious medical issue. Suddenly he chooses to quit giving a shit because he saw his death and chose to be selfish and unappreciative of life. I’m glad I didn’t do that when I nearly died.
Getting brain damage and becoming conservative is quite the statement though.
I didn’t make that statement.
I think the point is that Fetterman did
Brain damage makes you more conservative
Having higher intelligence correlates strongly to left wing beliefs.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289624000254
If people have papers to the contrary lets see them.
Universities aren’t peddling some “liberal agenda,” it just so happens that the more educated you are the more liberal you tend to become. I’m sure that has nothing to do with red states pushing Jesus in schools and rolling back child labor laws…
What if it’s deeper than that. Like not systematic. What if liberals who are educated are just more outspoken. Or that people who tend to need post secondary school are more left leaning. What if it has nothing to do with education at all. I see no reason to believe the left are any more intelligent than the right. The argument that they are is similar to arguments like people in Alberta saying they’re better than other provinces because they’re rich but really it’s just a product of living in a province where there’s an abundance of natural resources.
It is deeper and systemic. Depending on your field of study it could be analyzed any number of ways. I said nothing about intelligence, that’s hard to quantify and we’re all born with the same set of tools more or less. What is quantifiable is the census and voting records of various states around this nation. Being born into a family of poor idiots doesn’t make you dumb, but it does put you at a statistical likelihood of not seeing that potential because college is expensive and the local culture believing higher education=liberal brainwashing.
No one is automatically better than anyone else based on their zip code, but being in the nicer ones does help, who’d have thought
I think a major part of it is education and exposure. Conservativism is, generally, a desire to halt or even roll back “progress”. The embrace of traditions and nostalgia for the imaginary “good old days”. You know what your parents and your community taught you. You’ve established what normal is from your small sample size. Why change things? Everyone you know gets along just fine and you like the way it is. Different is scary.
Unfortunately, the world is really fucking complicated. Simple explanations can make perfect sense when your understanding is simple. However, the more you learn about the world, the more diversity you are exposed to, the more context you discover, the more stereotypes get broken… the more accommodating and progressive you usually become.
I see no reason to believe the left are any more intelligent than the right.
But intelligence and education are not exactly the same things.
A stockbroker knows about farms; but not the finer details that make one successful. Much like how politicians say they understand the struggles of the working class but never worked a day in their lives
It’s far darker than this. You’re all one step away from this kind of flip. I mean neurotypical people here (though I doubt neurodivergent are proof against it, normal people are just super vulnerable). It’s all based on identity and once something is part of your identity there is no logic that can shift you.
Thankfully not always. But damn it sure happens far too often.
Wasn’t this guy reddits favourite politician some years ago?
Yeah. He was clapping back at trump and the republicans a lot which helped boost him to run. Pretty popular. Then he got elected and suddenly started aligning with the republicans on some issues. The consensus since then (at least on Lemmy) is that brain damage causes conservatism.
Seems to cause loss of emotional control at least
Pennsylvania favorite. some people knew he was a scumbag before being elected.
before his brain damage? yes, that’s him.
I mean he was running against Dr. Oz. Didn’t take much to cheer for him. He also had some progressive stances at the time. Which he seems to have all but forgotten.
some people said it wouldve been better if oz was the senator, now that he is with medicare medicaid, he can do much more damage.
Not even close. That was the propaganda of the dem party trying to get him elected. Half the posts on the net are propaganda from some group or another trying to build a narrative, since that’s apparently the only way people can make sense of the world anymore. And here we are years later repeating the same fucking story because the propaganda affects both the supporters AND detractors.
You go turncoat you gotta accept the stoning
Well at least he’s got enough brain cells left to realize he’s loathed now. Thats not much but its something.
Probably the immediate about-face he took on every single stance he had prior to his stroke…
People tend to get mad when you campaign on helping people then turn into a fascist supporter
No, no, no. He was a piece of shit before he got elected he just hid it better before the stroke.
Probably the immediate about-face he took on every single stance he had prior to his stroke…
Prior to his election. Stop blaming the stroke for a democrat acting like a democrat.
John needs the health insurance and his policy is what every single resident in the USA should have. He does not give a shit about the common people. Find another Democrat and toss him out.
Gee John, I wonder? Maybe voting for maga clowns isn’t what the people voted you into office for.
Raises alarms? It sounds like he had a mental breakdown and caused his staffers to as well.
Yeah, like the alarms from the proximity sensors on his front bumper when he rear ended that person at “well over 70 mph”.
Sad to see
The guy belongs in a care home, not in a political office. Which seems pretty common in present day US politics.
Let’s make a trade, Republicans… we will help you oust McConnell if you help us oust Fetterman. Both do not belong in the senate.
They’d never go for it because Fetterman is helping them. Say what you want about republicans but they do not deviate from their racism and hatred. Fetterman shouldn’t even be allowed to call himself democrat anymore.
This. If a member of the Democratic party deviates too far from the party’s objectives and ideals, how can the party allow them to stay? The Democrats should kick him out.
But republicans like fetterman, why would they do that?
He’s an absolute embarrassment. TBH I’ve always thought he was a clown. I’m not one of those decorum over all people but wearing hoodies and being overall dismissive and disrespectful has always given me a poor impression of him. Hopefully he gets primaried soon.
Not an “embarrassment”. It’s far more of a tragedy.
Can you elaborate? I’m curious
I actually liked those things about him, but that’s because I have a healthy disrespect for authority.
