The far-right darling is accused of leaving his mom and sister high and dry as they fight eviction.

Kyle Rittenhouse has been publicly dragged by his own family, who say the far-right darling has left them high and dry as his mother and sister brace for eviction from their home.

Faith, Kyle’s sister, put out a desperate plea for help on May 29, setting up a GoFundMe to help fight their eviction notice.

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“With my brother’s unwillingness to provide support or contribute to our family, we’ve been left to navigate this journey on our own,” she added.

Her family has “exhausted every resource available to us,” she wrote, and “time is running out.”

“When I was in the hospital we tried to like talk to my brother, we tried to like to tell his lawyer to tell like my brother like I was maybe needing surgery or like I was in the hospital, I never heard from him,” Faith told viewers of the V-Radio podcast.

  • rwhitisissle@lemy.lol
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    2 years ago

    I’m going to go ahead and post my hot take: I hate that these people are facing eviction and that they’re faced with crippling medical debt caused by chronic illness and frequent hospitalization. I don’t like these people. I don’t agree with their beliefs. I think Kyle Rittenhouse did something unforgivably terrible and that his family likely enabled him and his actions. But I also don’t want them to be homeless or to have to deal with medical debt, because those are things that I believe our society should guarantee, as inalienable rights, that no one, regardless of how odious they or their family might be, should have to endure. And I don’t care that they (probably) believe differently.

      • rwhitisissle@lemy.lol
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        2 years ago

        I think what people believe is more a matter of environment, exposure, and upbringing. The Rittenhouses are victims of an ideology that they internalized because they were, in some very real way, made to internalize it. It doesn’t benefit them and it exists purely to support systems of power that actively disenfranchise them and people like them. And “our” ideologies, however similar or different your beliefs and mine might be, are just as much a product of environment and conditioning. I’m not entirely sure I can draw the exact line where a society’s failure of its own people stops and personal accountability begins when it’s tied so intimately to how an individual believes the world is and should be.

        • magnetosphere@fedia.io
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          2 years ago

          I think you’re right. I also think that’s the real reason some conservatives hate college and cities. Living in close proximity to others exposes you to different perspectives, and (hopefully) teaches you that other points of view aren’t automatically wrong. Different isn’t necessarily bad. Your parents, and the values you grew up with, don’t have the solution to everything. Lines are much harder to draw.

        • magnetosphere@fedia.io
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          2 years ago

          Okay, I did laugh, but I have to point out that there are people caught in the middle. A lot of folks, no how loudly they yell, or how many flags they burn on TV, don’t actually want to kill anybody. They just want to live. They just want to take care of their families. That’s who liberals are trying to help.

        • magnetosphere@fedia.io
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          2 years ago

          I don’t like it either, but pretending differences don’t exist won’t make those differences go away.

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Honestly, same here. I despise what they enabled, and continue to enable. I also despise that they’re facing homelessness and serious healthcare issues because nobody should have to face that, regardless of how repugnant I might find their beliefs and actions. I honestly hope that they manage to get out from under this and continue to live long, healthy, and happy lives, because I believe that everyone SHOULD have these things.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’m not as good a person as you, and I’m sorry. I accept them losing their house as long as it’s to someone better. Odds are that’s happening.

  • RainfallSonata@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    “people still believe my mother drove Kyle or was somehow involved in his decision to go to Kenosha.”

    Was she not sitting right there behind him in court supporting what he did?

    my brother was involved in a tragic shooting incident,

    Fuck you.

  • Bananobanza@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    God, reading that quote from the sister gave me braindamage. How many 'like’s can you use before the entire sentence is incomprehensible?

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      Reading the word as ‘um’ or ‘uh’ in a sentence makes it easier to read. I think a proper editor of the commentary would have truncated excessive ‘like’ use as they would a stammer.

    • drislands@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      It’s honestly unkind to include it in the quote from her. Written down, it is seriously hard to read. But spoken aloud, your brain will filter “filler words” like that out without needing to think too hard about it.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Here I was thinking maybe I’d throw them a bone, maybe they were trying to be decent people that his public image and association made life difficult for them. No. Of course not. They just wanted his fame to bring them money. They are who they are.

  • Dkarma@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Conservative enablers become collateral damage of conservatives being conservatives…more at 11.

    Also if you’ve never seen the Rittenhouse family they all appear to have iqs below 85 or so.

    Look at the sisters quote here…like…uh…like Kyle …like never helped us …like even like for my like surgery like …like like like

  • underisk@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Remember when one of the idiots who participated in his defense came out and said that he fucked up a full ride scholarship to go be a right wing talking head for Turning Point, and called him an antagonistic arrogant dumbass who couldn’t score high enough on his ASVAB to live out his dream of murdering minorities legally overseas?

      • Furbag@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Republican donor groups fell over themselves to prop this guy up as some right-wing hero. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of them decided to send him to college on a full ride so that they could continue to point to him in the future as someone who went on to make a success of themselves rather than continue to prove to the world that he’s a vicious idiot with no prospects in life.