The thought that I could one day have a stroke and lose my mental faculties like this is scary ngl. Fetterman still being in a position of power is a failure of the system at this point. I’d feel bad for the guy if he wasn’t a rabid genocide supporter.
I would argue your filter is a huge part of your personality. Many people have harmful impulses, internalized bigotry and think mean thoughts sometimes. Becoming a better person is not about cleansing your thoughts of the impure, it’s much more about keeping your bad impulses in check. Sharing things you would like to keep for yourself, watching a movie with your partner you couldn’t care less about, being kind to someone who makes you feel intense jealousy, these kinds of things. I don’t think it’s fair to say that losing your filter because of a stroke “reveals who you really are”.
I know Fetterman had terrible views before the stroke already. It’s more so that I think it’s scary how you can have a stroke and suddenly become so much worse to the people around you because you lose control over yourself.
The same man who held a random Black man at gunpoint also being a zionist and having outbursts like this isn’t a huge jump, white people just didn’t care before because uhhh he wears shorts all the time isn’t that funny
His behavior has gotten worse since his stroke but he’s been like this
The thought that I could one day have a stroke and lose my mental faculties like this is scary ngl. Fetterman still being in a position of power is a failure of the system at this point. I’d feel bad for the guy if he wasn’t a rabid genocide supporter.
Strokes CAN cause personality changes but they can also just make you lose your filter. It becomes too taxing to keep up the mask.
I would argue your filter is a huge part of your personality. Many people have harmful impulses, internalized bigotry and think mean thoughts sometimes. Becoming a better person is not about cleansing your thoughts of the impure, it’s much more about keeping your bad impulses in check. Sharing things you would like to keep for yourself, watching a movie with your partner you couldn’t care less about, being kind to someone who makes you feel intense jealousy, these kinds of things. I don’t think it’s fair to say that losing your filter because of a stroke “reveals who you really are”.
I know Fetterman had terrible views before the stroke already. It’s more so that I think it’s scary how you can have a stroke and suddenly become so much worse to the people around you because you lose control over yourself.
I agree. Same with drunkenness. That’s not “the real you,” it’s you missing some essential parts of the whole.
He was racist and aggressive long before this.
The same man who held a random Black man at gunpoint also being a zionist and having outbursts like this isn’t a huge jump, white people just didn’t care before because uhhh he wears shorts all the time isn’t that funny
His behavior has gotten worse since his stroke but he’s been like this
Yeah the “put up a thin veneer” part of his brain was the part that atrophied. His values haven’t changed much.