Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said in an interview that aired Sunday that he believed opening up to the public about his mental health struggles earlier this year would negatively impact his career.

In an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press,” Fetterman opened up about his battle with clinical depression earlier this year and urged those facing mental health issues to seek help. He said that for the first couple of weeks while being treated for depression at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, he felt scared about sharing his experiences publicly.

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    I can disagree with him about things like Israel-Palestine foreign policy and still agree with him about other important stuff. No human is going to have the exact same views that I have.

    Thank you! Good gravy, when will people finally get this through their thick skulls? Politics and beliefs are not, and never will be, an all or nothing thing.

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      Alright then you wouldn’t mind a little piss in your cereal, yeah? The whole bowl isn’t piss, it’s just a little bit. Cereal will never be an all or nothing thing so take a fucking bite.

      Or can a little bit of something be so revolting you get rid of it all? Fucking hell.

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        Dude. You need to live in reality. You think all voters believe in and advocate for the same things?

        No one wants piss in their cereal, but guess what? You’ll get it anyway. Just vote for how much.

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          I’ve always been voting for the least pissed in cereal but the difference is you’re telling me it’s fine and I’m telling you it’s not fine.

          Submitting to the idea that there will always be piss in your cereal is a dark reality I refuse to accept.

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            The problem with your analogy is for you it’s piss, but a reasonable person who’s actually fairly close to you ideologically can come to a different conclusion. But you both like cereal, and maybe that’s more important.

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              It’s a genocide and he’s supporting it. Yes, the analogy isn’t perfect but trying to pick it apart now is just semantics. He is defending the indefensible and by doing so joins the fascists and zionists who want nothing more than Palestine to be glassed to make way for Jewish settlers. This isn’t a game of Civilization, I don’t give a shit if Hamas gave them a Casus Belli, this is genocide and it’s sickening.

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          Why would I want a genocide supporter to represent me? I’ll vote for the least stinky sack of shit but stop trying to convince me it’s not shit in that sack. Bernie was the closest thing to someone I’d be willing to claim represents me since I got into politics.

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            When the child killer’s opposition have this as their main strategy, I’m a bit more sympathetic to the child killers. And the context of this conversation is dropping support for representation if they don’t have all the views that align with you. It’s not about the Israel/Palestine conflict. So please don’t try the Think of the Children crap on me - it’s not relevant to this discussion.

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              Human beings are fucking dying you psychopath. They are not attacking military locations, they are slaughtering journalists in civilian zones they designate as safe and pushed the civilians into, and they are using war crime grade toxins like white phos.

              What the fuck is wrong with you linking a fucking comic book page like this is some fucking joke?

              E: insane that this loser is defending a genocide and open war crimes with “but war is bad, we gotta!”

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                More (faux?) moral outrage… why should I be surprised. Though I do like how you just sidestepped addressing my first sentence’s point and just spew out more Bad Things one side is doing. Bad things happen in war - surprise. It’s the reason why war’s the last resort option for getting your way.

                Now try to think about why it got pushed to this point. Hint; it’s not because Israel is a mustache twirling villain. Another hint: it’s more complicated than the .ml articles paint a view of. I’ll trust the people whose job it is to understand these things rather than lemmings who get fed propaganda and pretend they have all the black/white answers.