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there are a lot of ways that strokes can permanently change your life, including physical and mental deficits, but suddenly accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars to aid and abet a genocide is simply not a stroke symptom.
also if we're gonna get all misty eyed over this poor little politician who had a stroke, wheres the compassion for all the men women and children all over the middle east who have received permanent brain damage as a direct result of legislation that this man- who is alert and fucking oriented, knows exactly who and where he is and what he is doing- voted for?
Same place.
Are you saying I can't have empathy for multiple people?
Or that you can't?
the man you are expressing concern for has personally aided and abetted the killing of thousands of civilians. you aren't acknowledging his vile misdeeds, only telling the people who understand this and are justifiably upset with him to give him a pass on all these murders because he had a stroke.
grievous loss of ability seems to matter a lot more for you when it happens to a rich white senator.
When I see people blaming the thousands of civilians he's personally aided and abetted the killing of for what they are now, I'll defend them also.