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Fetterman has to be one of the biggest disappointments for the left in recent memory (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world to c/leftism@lemmy.world

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/john-fetterman-tells-maher-that-near-death-experience-freed-him-to-speak-out-says-progressivism-left-me/ar-BB1nS49V

From the article:

The liberal comedian then asked Fetterman whether his shift in various policies had anything to do with his recovery from his 2022 stroke, asking if his near-death experience had given him a "freedom."

"Absolutely," Fetterman responded. "There's a line from the first 'Batman,' Joker's like ‘I’ve been dead once already. It's very liberating.'"

"It's freeing in a way. And I just think after beating all of that, I just really [want to] be able to say the things that I have to really believe in and not be afraid of if there's any kind of blowback."

So basically yes, the stroke made him a Republican. Pathetic and disappointing, but all too predictable.

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I remember when it happened. I was watching the news but at the same time checking the internet forums (where I actually heard about the first plane), and things there were not nearly so rah rah who dares attack.

Sure folks were scared but even on the DAY OF the towers coming down people were dropping facts about how, yeah terrorism is bad, but this is a direct consequence of the we in the West fucking with the middle east.

So I don't think age is an excuse. It was pretty pretty clear from the start who was cool to getting woke about the reasons behind the attacks and who was a reactionary chud looking for a Desert Storm sequel.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yup, everyone I know but "that one uncle" was like, well it was gonna happen some time, didn't expect it to be that big, but something bad was going to happen.

They shut down the city. I was in downtown and I was sitting on top of my car watching a combination of police, and national guard, evacuate everyone, as one of the potential targets of flight 93 was downtown. Military flying over head, M939s carrying in national guard, and carrying out civilians, alarms and and emergency broadcasts being broadcast over loud speaker I never even noticed existed before. It was kinda crazy.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was crazy yeah.

As an aside, I think some people have been trying to recapture that momentary sense of purpose and mobilisation ever since. Like we're doing something together against a threat! We're united! Things are happening!

If that impulse would only be directed in a constructive direction...

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, they have been stoking that fire since I was born. Moral panic, after moral panic, all with the underlying foundation being that the people doing these things aren't good, god fearing, christian, white, conservatives. I think the current level of this, anti-trans for example, have gotten this big due to decades of work on the part of those pushing these moral panics through mainstream media venues. People like Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Bill O-Reilly, Tucker Carlson, to really shake up the dynamics, since it is the 2000s, Ann Coulter. Now that we are in the internet era, Alex Jones, Mike Knowles, Ben Shapiro, Lauren southern, Hanna Davis, Tomi Lahren (wow several women now) and for a really modern look, a dash of color, Candice Owens.