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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    This isn’t like, disagreeing on gun control. He wore the fucking Israel flag like a cape while reports are coming out that they’re dropping JDAMs on children. I don’t care what his struggles are, he’s advocating for something so transparently heinous that his ‘temperate’ views are worthless.

    I don’t care how good Graduation was by Kanye, he’s racist. I don’t care how good Hitler’s paintings are, he started a holocaust. There’s “polite disagreement” and “advocating for war crimes”.

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      But he isn’t advocating for war crimes. He’s not out there cheering them on. I’m sure like many people he wishes they were far more surgical in their strikes.

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        Israel is committing blatant and obvious war crimes and he’s stalwartly defending them.

        Israel has admitted they have removed or are not using the targeting kits for their bombs. They are purposefully taking out entire city blocks and being indiscriminate with their bombs. When you don’t care about civilian casualties because they’re of a specific group, that’s a genocide. This is very straightforward.

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        Defending the people who dropped white phos is what normal rational adults have called advocating war crimes since the invention of the term.