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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    It requires an intent to destroy all Palestinians as a group. That’s the debatable part. It is not enough to just not just have a different weighting of military value vs civilian casualties - it requires systemic intent to destroy the whole or a significant part of the group.

    If that isn’t required, every battle ever conducted is genocide, every war was genocide. It really dilutes the meaning of genocide.

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        6 months ago

        That it what he is about. If op-eds were government policy we’d all be super fucked.

        It’s troubling and no doubt he’s trying to push the Overton window in Israel much like our hard right fuckwits do.

        But that is not all of Israel - any more than Lauren Boebert speaks for me.

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      There’s a hefty supply of various proof that genocide and land seizure is the end goal, not our fault you refuse to accept that.