• aceshigh@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Wasn’t there a study on this - brain damage decreases empathy and so you become a conservative.

    • zidanerick@lemmy.patton.id.au
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      7 hours ago

      The amount of lead exposure during your life would also contribute to this I feel, we are fucked until money gets out of politics as it seems it’s currently a DEI for older/damaged folk. Why do people have to have a fitness test to go and die but our people in charge don’t even have to have a physical in most cases.

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      12 hours ago

      As much as I liked the “massive brain damage causes conservatism” narrative following Fetterman around, I’ve been hearing more and more that he was always a duplicitous asshole.

      Our country needs a way to recall public servants when they betray constituents. Six years is too long to wait.

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        11 hours ago

        I’m not sure. His own staff has been abandoning him in droves. I supported him during the election and he without question changed. Was there a conservative quality to him to begin with? Sure, but he was closer to Sanders than Manchin. Unlike Sinema who was just an agent like Gabbard, I do think the stroke heavily exacerbated what little conservatism he had

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      12 hours ago

      He literally said in an interview that he felt the progressivism flowing out of his body when it happened