Link (Post Menopausal Female Enjoyer).: Saying Fetterman is conservative because he has brain damage is not the cool, funny own a lot of people seem to think it is.

Saying Fetterman is conservative because he has brain damage is not the cool, funny own a lot of people seem to think it is.

It’s awful and ableist and also (horrifyingly) a thing he said about himself newrepublic.com/post/182504/...

John Fetterman Brags That Brain Damage Made Him Abandon Progressivesnewrepublic.com The Pennyslvania senator sat down with Bill Maher of all people to chat about leaving progressives behind.

I had no idea that happened and it is entirely unsurprising that he, of all jagoffs, and he has always been a jagoff, would be vice signalling on Bill Maher and tossing other brain injured folks entirely under the bus.

I feel horrible for all the people who worked so hard to get him elected, even when it was obvious that the best thing would have been for him to drop out.

And I really don't think it was ableist to suggest that someone who had literally had a stroke mid campaign should drop out. For his own good. A proper recovery period might have avoided him devolving.

Take it from someone who has had a head injury, his blaming the injury is just an excuse.

Was gonna say, like, jeeeeez what the hell is he doing

Jesus, he's the male version of Sinema, right down to the inappropriate wardrobe.

Well this is pretty fucking disappointing. Thought he was better than this.

Jesus, we're just about to get rid of one Sinema. Are we going to have to put up with another one for 4 years?

As far as I'm concerned as a stroke survivor, he's not one of us.

I have the same kind of brain damage (I'm a stroke survivor) and yet I'm hanging out over here with Peter Kropotkin and Eugene Debs

Shitty.

This also applies to supposedly leftist, progressive, or liberal content creators. And even worse, a lot of them are not only negligent with access, they are actively and intentionally ableist towards their political opponents.

Absolutely.

Also a stroke survivor over here. I can confirm that some aspects of my personality changed, although not my politics. It’s possible this happened with Fetterman.

I think he was always there in some ways, but feels less obligated to hide it now

That’s very possible.

I think Fetterman might have been playing a progressive on television.

Hope you brought air freshener.

You get used to it after a while 🤪

i think the moralization of work and physical/mental ability runs so bone-deep in people born and raised under late capitalism that even hardcore leftists are totally immune to noticing their own ableism. it's the undercurrent of so many casual insults, so many linguistic ticks, so many "values"

it's very demoralizing to exist as a disabled person in purportedly progressive activist spaces

Yes.

It runs along the same lines as fatphobia. Like you’re cool until we need to make fun of someone we dislike!

this. fucking hate it when i've been getting along with someone and they let their hair down on this issue as soon as they're pissed at someone who "deserves" it

Which puts me in the position of having to defend fucking ghouls when asking ppl not to body shame.

yes, awful side effect of this which invites people to wildly misinterpret your point

Disability cuts into their sense of virtue 🙄

I mean, it is true that concussions and strokes can create personality changes but so can having national attention. I'm not sure why someone would decide it's better to say he's conservative as a function of disability when actually he's conservative as function of fucking ego.

God Himself failed to kill Fetterman, why shouldn't he have a two mile wide stride? (I'm being... Sardonic, I think? Ironic?)

God kills everyone eventually.

Not if I get to them first

Pretty sure he's conservative because he wants to be. People need to knock off the ableist BS.

It's like RFK Jr's brain worms. It's not funny but it's timing is weirdly coincidental. But Trump recently claimed that he'd never said "Lock her up" so we're clearly off the rails.

I'm not an expert here, but I don't think it's factual either

Fetterman sucked long before his stroke. People were just too taken in with populist rhetoric and his aesthetic and don't want to admit they got played because they didn't actually care about his policies, just the signaling.

The main thing I have from my strokes is that names sometimes get stuck in my brain. I hope not to be judged for surviving.

Someone should tell Fetterman this.

There exist many, perfectly sane, perfectly smart evil people They are not hypocrites because they are uneducated, they are hypocrites because they get away with it

Is Fetterman going to be the new Sinema?