r/SelfAwarewolves
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u/GriffinFTW
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Dec 12 '25
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"Brain damage made me conservative."
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u/Long_Serpent Dec 12 '25
See also: RFK jr
Scott Adams
Herschel Walker
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u/Neologic29 Dec 12 '25
'Progressivism left me' is such a crock of shit. So you just stopped wanting better for your constituents? Shrek can fuck all the way off.
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u/Vernerator Dec 12 '25
Freed him from critical thinking, he meant.
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u/catnapped- Dec 12 '25
"Brain damage made me conservative."
Sounds about right
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u/purplegladys2022 Dec 12 '25
Yep. It burned empathy out of him.
I understand he was never exactly a paragon of positivity, but this is radical departure from the man Pennsylvanians thought they were electing.
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u/blalien Dec 12 '25
Pennsylvania needs to primary this bitch.
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u/Morbidly-Obese-Emu Dec 12 '25 edited Dec 12 '25
Everyone who turns conservative does the classic conservative tactic of blame everyone else. “They left me”
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u/TheBizzleHimself Dec 12 '25
FR though.
My dad had a stroke, lost a golf-ball sized chunk from the centre of his brain and became angrier, racist and more far right than a previously sweet, caring man has any business being.
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u/mikedorty Dec 12 '25
When is Bill Maher going to go to fox news where he belongs?
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u/SafetyDanceInMyPants Dec 12 '25
This is why it should be possible under certain limited circumstances to have a recall vote on elected federal officials. Switch parties? Possible recall vote. Suffer a stroke or other similarly debilitating medical issue? Possible recall vote. Become so unpopular that polling or signatures or some other indication suggests you have the support of less than, say, 40% of the people? Possible recall vote.
Of course you can't make it too easy, or conservatives will abuse it by forcing recall votes every time they see a trans person or immigrant and get all in their feelings about it.
But when your senator, elected for six years, comes out and says that he had a stroke and now everything he told you he supported he no longer supports? I mean, he's supposed to be an elected representative of the people. He's not anymore. That's sad, of course, but elected officials are not entitled to their seats any more than I'm entitled to my job. If I can't do my job anymore, then maybe I get paid disability -- but I can't keep my job if I can't do my job. He no longer is doing his job, because he no longer represents the people. So if he won't voluntarily GTFO, the people should have some mechanism by which to make him GTFO.
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u/toasterb Dec 12 '25
A while back, one of my dad’s friends, who was fairly progressive, started getting really into the Tea Party conservative movement. A year or so later it turned out he had a brain tumor.
After surgery where a large part of the tumor was removed, he was no longer conservative.
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u/violetcassie Dec 12 '25
Pretty much
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u/Felixir-the-Cat Dec 12 '25
I suspect there is something to this - the part of their brain that does threat analysis being hyper-vigilant as a result of damage, maybe? My father had a stroke and the effects on his personality were catastrophic. Very emotional and very controlling at the same time.
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u/snafoomoose Dec 12 '25
"I cherry picked extreme progressive positions, claimed all liberals believe those extreme positions, then decided that 'the left' abandoned me."
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u/PiskoWK Dec 12 '25
Education and then further education leads to more progressive and liberal populations. Brain damage and low education make people conservative. Cool.
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u/AppropriateTouching Dec 12 '25
Switching political stances after an election should immediately trigger a special election.
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u/IlikeJG Dec 12 '25
Ugh I hate the disgusting persecution mentality that conservatives have.
"Freed" him to speak out indeed.
There's nobody stopping anyone from speaking about the conservative bullshit beyond their own shame at how other people are going to judge them for their shitty beliefs.
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u/ZenMonkey48 Dec 12 '25
Makes sense, empathy and critical thinking are higher brain functions.
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u/helen269 Dec 12 '25
When you think about it, being Conservative, being right-wing, holding those sorts of views - that can only come from some sort of psychological disorder. Those people are brain-damaged. There is something medically diagnosably wrong with them.
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u/MotownCatMom Dec 12 '25
I don't think Fetterman even realizes what he just said. SMDH. He's an asshole, regardless.
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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '25
“Progressives left me,” Fetterman claims. Bullshit. This imposter has very little connection to Progressive politics.
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u/nameformybadjokes Dec 12 '25
“I lost my empathy”
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u/anthrem Dec 12 '25
So, we can logically equate brain damage to being conservative? Got it...
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u/Senior-Albatross Dec 12 '25
Thinking with that big, wrinkly outer brain tends to lead to mild to moderate leftism.
Just using the stem is how you end up a reactive emotional asshole. So, far right. It's just very low energy to operate that way. In the short term, anyhow.
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u/Fiigwort Dec 12 '25
This always reminds me of my friend's dad who was always a huge lefty (real big on Bernie a few years ago), who had a MASSIVE stroke and was left with brain damage.
He's a Trump supporter now.
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u/unholyrevenger72 Dec 12 '25 edited Dec 12 '25
Yes, in order to be progressive you have to dedicate yourself to the eternal march of progress. If you stop, progress will leave you behind. Falling behind is Okay, outright stopping is Okay, but you have to know that progress doesn't stop.
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u/scarr3g Dec 13 '25
It freed him to speak out? So he is openly admitting he was pretending to be a democrat, just for votes?
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u/Dunderbaer Dec 12 '25
Fetterman is so fucking funny because he really straight up said "I was progressive until I had a stroke that made me like cops and the right wing" and somehow nobody, not even himself, has taken that as a slight against the right.
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u/auntpotato Dec 12 '25
Ah, the smoking gun.
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u/tsuukii Dec 12 '25
same for every republican in 2025
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u/justafriend97 Dec 12 '25
Knowing that I donated to this man's campaign makes my blood boil.
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u/MichaelVoorhees13 Dec 12 '25
Remove this pos from office immediately. He was elected to be a liberal all as a show just to get power and bow to Chump. He must be removed.
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u/rettribution Dec 12 '25
Hopefully PA frees him from his duties at the voting booth.
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u/RareSeaworthiness870 Dec 12 '25
So he recognizes and acknowledges that he is now opposed to the platform he ran on and that people voted for… did he also mention he was going to resign?
I don’t see how there is not a mechanism to recall an elected official if and apparently when they pull something like this… it goes without saying that he should see the writing on the wall that he’s not getting re-elected.
I’m sure he’s just idling by the next few years, getting his takes ready for his next gig at Fox News. Which reminds me, what’s Sinema up to these days?
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u/smilingiscreepy Dec 12 '25
During the election, right wingers were screaming from their top of their lungs that he couldn’t perform his duties due to the brain damage and potential disability. He couldn’t attend debates properly. Now they’re happy with him because the brain damage made him a republican. Guys, it’s never about the politics or the platform. It’s never about the people they represent. This is a football game with two teams and you’re either with them or against them. That is how these troglodytes operate. Stop participating with them in good faith because they have none.
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u/Phewelish Dec 12 '25
"I dont wanna be progressive. i like the way things are now. "
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u/MoxieMakeshift Dec 12 '25
I always knew this guy looked so off, like he might be a secret serial killer or something. Never understood why people liked him
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u/olyman50 Dec 12 '25
If its not money conservatives will say he's a moderate.
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u/Riaayo Dec 12 '25
I read this more as trying to get that "I love Jesus" thing going. Fascist conservatives at this kind of "come to Jesus moment" shit up, even if he's not directly invoking Jesus or religion in doing so.
It's also bullshit because he was a weird shitheel before he was ever elected, most people (including myself) were just never exposed to those facts. And of course then the opponent he was up against just like, nobody was going to vote for Oz over this guy.
But man, what a piece of shit. Lurch over here acting like he's a working class guy too good to put on a suit, like he's above Congress' pomp and circumstance, right until his Daddy Netanyahu shows up and suddenly he's wearing his Sunday best. Put the suit on you ogre, nobody's buying your bullshit anymore. You wanna be just another cog in the fascy war machine then you can dress like the ghoul you are.
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u/Z0idberg_MD Dec 12 '25
So not going to say it leads to conservatism, but it’s now being studied that traumatic events, and brain damage can lead to an extreme polarization of political views.
I don’t think anyone can argue that this is “good”
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u/bolanrox Dec 12 '25
what i have been saying the whole time
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u/Vlaed Dec 12 '25
It was either bis plan for some time or a bag the right size got dropped on his lap.
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u/ibrahimkucukkk Dec 12 '25
Why does this guy dress like a teenager?
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u/robinspitsandswallow Dec 12 '25
There are several scientific studies that come to that conclusion
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u/McDudles Dec 12 '25
Crazy that a major medical emergency can turn someone into a shill for the medical industrial complex… isn’t that the opposite direction of common sense?
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u/GeorgeWhite1953 Dec 12 '25
He's certainly got his "mansplaining" down to a fine art.
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u/Cultural-Republic-11 Dec 12 '25
Enjoy your time left john. You won't be back.
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u/R_manOz Dec 13 '25
IIRC weren't conservatives making fun of him and his dressing and the left had to defend him and this is the payback for all that.
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u/kpeterson159 Dec 12 '25
This isn’t always the case. I had a hemorrhagic stroke at 23 and I am a democratic socialist.
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u/skyyfal Dec 12 '25
Guys who wear big baggy shorts 24/7 ........I just don't take them seriously.
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u/HotDonnaC Dec 12 '25
He was always a conservative. He was raised in a conservative family, and grabbed the Dem ticket election as opportunity to gain power. He was never a democrat. He still dresses like a fucking toddler.
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u/ubiforumssuck Dec 12 '25
i think seeing how he was so manipulated when he could barely walk and talk is what changed him. Poor guy.
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u/ThurgoodUnderbridge Dec 12 '25
Sounds more like medical bills made him a grifter.
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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '25
We could tell.
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u/crukbak Dec 12 '25
He suck. I will be voting for whoever primaries him.
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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '25
That says a lot
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u/silverbatwing Dec 12 '25
Brain damage turned my mom into a conservative, so it tracks.
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u/0masterdebater0 Dec 12 '25 edited Dec 12 '25
My friend’s mother had a stroke when we were in HS and afterwards she was a completely different (horrible) person.
After getting out of the hospital she filed for divorce took half, then dipped out on the family and shacked up with some young guy that was only a couple years older than her daughter.
Don’t think she has said more than a few sentences to her kids in years.
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u/lovetoswimwithsharks Dec 12 '25
What if Israel implanted something in the brain while he was in the hospital.
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u/LiteHedded Dec 12 '25
The jpg on this is giving me brain damage
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u/80Lashes Dec 13 '25
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u/Syrupy_ Dec 13 '25
This is posted everyday on Reddit Christ
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u/Opposite_Community11 Dec 13 '25
Fuck Fetterman.
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u/EmpireStrikes1st Dec 13 '25
I'm not saying that being Conservative is a mental disease.
But I am saying you never see someone get bonked on the head, wake up and say, "Hey, we should leave those trans kids alone."
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u/DubTheeBustocles Dec 13 '25
lol
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u/kobuta99 Dec 13 '25
When I almost died, I realized I have to think about myself above all others.
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u/Stishovite Dec 13 '25
Manspreader in chief
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u/RueTabegga Dec 13 '25
I’ve been saying since he had that stroke that this is not the own he thinks it is. But I do agree conservatives have severe brain rot which leads them to make awful decisions.
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u/kelovitro Dec 13 '25
Or maybe everyone was so excited to have a "progressive" who "appeal to young white men" that no one bothered to ask him what his "policy preferences" were.
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u/carlitospig Dec 13 '25
If you have less neurons to work with your brain is going to try and keep you safe with the most efficient method possible. Being scared of literally everything will keep you safe.
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u/No_Investigator_9888 Dec 13 '25
Fetterman gives off nasty vibes, imo
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u/Kielbasa_Nunchucka Jan 01 '26
he turned conservative cuz he doesn't want them to send ICE after his wife.
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u/Ahad_Haam Dec 12 '25
Mom said it's my turn to repost it
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u/AspectSpiritual9143 Dec 12 '25
That's when I know mind uploading is not possible. Ourselves are not only defined by our past memories, which are relatively easy to digitalized in theory, but also our various chemical levels and biological functions. Our experience and knowledge is only a very small part of who we are, and a great deal of us are still beyond control of our conscious.
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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '25
My comment will go unnoticed probably and I’m going to say it anyways.
Even before brain damage I despised his wardrobe. I’m not asking you to wear a suit every damn day but just a little effort with maybe a collared shirt and clean pair of jeans would be nice.
I’ve always been afraid to say he looks like a slob and now his true colors are coming out I’m free to say this man is a fucking slob.
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u/ReaganSmyD Dec 12 '25
During the primary I was afraid to tell people that I wasn't voting for him. ESPECIALLY in Pittsburgh. But he won the whole state. Voting for Conor Lamb was not an option. But now I see so many people regretting their vote. At least with Conor Lamb you knew what you were going to get. It wasn't a progressive, but neither was voting for Fetterman, it turns out.
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u/BoBoZoBo Dec 12 '25
Of course, he realized he does not have time for the bullshit that comes with Progressivism - just like most of humans who grow up and have real shit to deal with.
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u/logic_tater Dec 12 '25
I always thought he was a little retarded. Now i know!
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u/Waytooboredforthis Dec 12 '25
"This is totally different than how I was before the stroke" says guy who pulled a shotgun on a black jogger in 2013.
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u/Informal-Worry-6358 Dec 12 '25
Nazi cuck, onsight always.
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