'I Care About Little Kids Dying': Ocasio-Cortez Hits Back at Fetterman Over Gaza | Common Dreams
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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.
  • demizerone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 hours ago

    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.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
      4·
      2 hours ago

      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.

  • Sundial@lemm.ee
    1424·
    23 hours ago

    “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.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      744·
      22 hours ago

      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”.

      • quixotic120@lemmy.worldEnglish
        38·
        22 hours ago

        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

      • Sundial@lemm.ee
        11·
        22 hours ago

        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.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          22 hours ago

          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.

          • Sundial@lemm.ee
            2·
            21 hours ago

            The man is able to connect the dots of receiving lobbying money and advocating for a certain position. He should be able to connect the dots of civilians dying, and saying that’s bad. Lots of people who suffer from strokes learn to control themselves and their personality changes. Fetterman just isn’t one of them.

            • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
              41·
              21 hours ago

              We’re saying the same thing.

              An asshole is an asshole, it doesn’t matter what lead them down that path.

              Understanding why people are assholes is worth it because we learn how to deal with them, and maybe even prevent less people from becoming assholes later.

              Every society has X% of assholes, there’s never zero assholes, but it’s worth getting that number as low as possible.

              I think everyone agrees there’s more than there used to be, and would enjoy less assholes.

              • Sundial@lemm.ee
                2·
                19 hours ago

                I see what you’re saying. My mistake, I misinterpreted your comment. You’re honestly a better person than me that would see someone have this kind of stance and say “Let’s see where they’re coming from”. To me, it’s just another asshole that society should not even have to tolerate.

      • anticolonialist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        16 hours ago

        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

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1623·
    11 hours ago

    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.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      212·
      10 hours ago

      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?

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        125·
        9 hours ago

        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.

        • jonne@infosec.pub
          3·
          2 hours ago

          Yeah, actually amazing that the hasbara people bother with this tiny platform. It’s admittedly a small number of usernames that keep returning.

        • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
          12·
          1 hour ago

          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.

          • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            1 hour ago

            That doesn’t stand up to scrutiny when you’re talking about a tiny platform full of entrenched pro-genocide centrists. Who do you imagine this vast Russian conspiiiiiiiiiracy to say things centrists don’t like on lemmy is going to convert?

            • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
              11·
              42 minutes ago

              We’re not talking about a platform of entrenched pro-genocide centrists, we’re taking about a platform of predominantly leftists. Now, many of those leftist are capable of critical thinking, so they don’t just parrot every half-baked idea they hear just because the person saying it claims to be an Authentic Communist™.

              As to who it’s supposed to convert, that much is also obvious to any leftist with critical thinking skills: impressionable young idealists. Get them to refuse to support the “pro genocide centrists” out of a noble sense of justice, and the pro-genocide fascists clinch the win. Putin wins, Netanyahu wins, the military industrial complex wins, and those poor schmucks think they stuck it to the man while the fascists laugh their way into the White House.

              • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                39 minutes ago

                We’re not talking about a platform of entrenched pro-genocide centrists

                Yes, we are. We’re talking about lemmy.

                • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
                  11·
                  35 minutes ago

                  Yes, Lemmy, predominantly leftist

                  a platform of predominantly leftists. Now, many of those leftists are capable of critical thinking, so they don’t just parrot every half-baked idea they hear just because the person saying it claims to be an Authentic Communist™.