'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.
  • Sundial@lemm.ee
    157·
    3 months 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.

      • Sundial@lemm.ee
        6·
        3 months ago

        Why would Hamas de-escalate? They’re people are being systemically eradicated and have been for over 70 years.

        we should be pushing for a ceasefire and a two state system.

        I agree that we should be aiming for a peaceful solution but a two-state solution would be bad IMO. It shouldn’t be an us vs them kind of government. Every western government has a system where people of all backgrounds and faiths can pursue any lifestyle or job they wanted, including in the government and elected positions. Why can’t be the same here? Why must there be a divide between Muslims and Jews.

    • chaogomu@lemmy.world
      28·
      3 months ago

      To be fair to the piece of shit Fetterman, he ran on a very progressive platform.

      Then he had that stroke and now he’s one of the least progressive members of Congress.

      The question is, was he always a lying sack of shit? Or did the stroke literally change his mind?

      • Asafum@feddit.nl
        10·
        3 months ago

        I don’t think Sinema ever had a stroke and I believe she went from “progressive” into a piece of shit once she got elected, so I’m going with “he’s a lying piece of shit” as the more likely reason.

      • exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de
        9·
        3 months ago

        I really would like to see some studies on that topic “does cognitive decline skew your position to the right”. If it does it’s usually slowly over many years. But fetterman had a huge decline suddenly and basically in love with genocide now. (I still believe he didn’t think like that before).

        Would make sense in a way - stripping away all nuance from the world by means of deteriorating perception makes people only see good and bad or my team / their team.

        • chaogomu@lemmy.world
          6·
          3 months ago

          It would be interesting to see.

          There’s a condition called cerebral microvascular disease.

          Basically individual neurons die, but because the brain is fairly plastic the surrounding neurons pick up the slack.

          That is of course until the brain is stressed, at which point the surrounding neurons drop the extra duty to focus on just their own jobs.

          Once the stress goes away, the neurons pick up the slack again.

          Now here’s the somewhat scary part. Something like 5% of adults over the age of 50 have it, to an extent that can be seen on a CT scan.

          And 100% of those 90 and older have it.

          It’s a major cause of dementia in older adults but is usually seen as momentary brain fog.

      • CondensedPossum@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 months ago

        no, i don’t get behind any of those excuses

        I had to move my family away from Swissvale because of that piece of shit and his poison factories and his looting

        he said he was going to clean up the steel mills and then he went back on it, that isn’t democracy

  • demizerone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    3 months 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
      11·
      3 months 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.

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    19·
    3 months 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.

  • FundMECFSResearch
    16·
    3 months ago

    Man my dyslexia made me read “I care little about kids dying” and I was like wtf