Recent comments in /f/Pennsylvania

UShouldBDancing t1_j919xih wrote

I won’t repeat all the good explanations here of how replacing elected officials works but, seriously, is this a question that needs to be asked?

Clinical depression following a stroke is common. A stroke causes chemical changes in your brain. Psychiatric care and medication can help people recover to their normal selves.

Point is, it’s unlikely he’ll be unable to continue to serve any more than someone who has a heart attack, or a stroke, or a severe trauma injury. Our other senator was recently diagnosed with cancer and no one made dumbass claims about his spouse gunning for his job.

Background from ASA about post-stroke depression

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SwadianZunist t1_j917ali wrote

If you rely on life-in-prison being cheaper as the reason why the death penalty is wrong, then they’ll just try to make the death penalty cheaper in order to justify using it more.

I don’t trust the state with the power to execute it’s own citizens. We’ve all seen what can go wrong when they have that power. That’s why I think the death penalty is wrong.

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Allemaengel t1_j914iv2 wrote

I live just outside Jim Thorpe but work in Bucks County and grew up in the Lehigh Valley.

My list of nice towns or up-and-coming ones obviously includes Jim Thorpe but Lehighton/Palmerton getting better too in Carbon County.

Nazareth with many, Bethlehem,and Easton neighborhood s getting better in Northampton County.

Emmaus in Lehigh County.

Doylestown with Quakertown and Perkasie/Sellersville getting better in Bucks County.

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