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Kyle Rittenhouse's sister Faith is seeking $3,000 on a crowdfunding website in a bid to prevent the eviction of herself and her mother Wendy from their home, citing her "brother's unwillingness to provide or contribute to our family."

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (3 children)

According to the article his sister has been hospitalized and both her and their mother have a hard time getting work because of being associated with Kyle Rittenhouse. BTW the mother did not drive him that's a fallacy

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ok then I retract the part about driving. But I have a hard time feeling sympathy for her being unable to get a job. She's repeatedly defended him and said she stands by him, and she allowed her 17 year old to buy a gun he couldn't legally have and to drive without a license. Being associated with him is her doing. I have a family member who was a teenage white supremacist piece of shit (who was thankfully stopped by the FBI before he killed anyone), and you can bet nobody thinks I'm associated with him because I make it very clear where I stand. If I said he was a good person and I'll always support him, I wouldn't be shocked if employers said nah.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sure, but she's also his mother, not a random family member. I'm not going to fault a mother for standing by their child, no matter what he did.

She didn't let him buy anything, but she couldn't make him get rid of it because it wasn't in her house. It was locked up at a friend's house in a different town.

She was also ill, poor, dyslexic, and a single parent dealing with a difficult child. She doesn't seem to have much in her life but her children, I'm not going to condemn her for not banishing him from her life. It's not an easy thing for a mother to do.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If that’s the case, it’s sad then that he apparently doesn’t seem willing to return the good will and unconditional support, if he’s refusing to help them with rent. Abandoning the one person who would always have your back…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Sad and entirely predictable; we already knew he was a shitbag

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'm not going to fault a mother for standing by their child, no matter what he did.

You can stand by your child by always having room in your home for them. You can still condemn their action and say they might not know any better or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah absolutely fuck Kyle Rittenhouse but Kyle lied to his mom that night about what he was up to, and the mom clearly had no intention of being a willing accomplice to murder.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah but she was totally down for taking him drinking with the Proud Boys.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fallacy is a fault in logic, not a falsehood.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc (after it therefore because of it) is a fallacy. Or an appeal to authority is a fallacy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fallacy

a false or mistaken idea

You're thinking specifically of logical fallacies.