Kyle Rittenhouse is unwilling "to provide or contribute to our family," according to his sister.

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.”

  • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
    6515·
    6 months ago

    There’s a certain type of person who thinks work is beneath them. That’s who the Rittenhouse family is.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      498·
      6 months ago

      …what? What are you basing this on?

      When the children were small, Wendy and Mike worked various jobs, including machine operator, housekeeper, and cashier.

      …

      Wendy had become a certified nursing assistant, but she continued to struggle financially. The family was repeatedly evicted.

      …

      In 2018, shortly after another eviction, Wendy filed for bankruptcy. She developed a gastrointestinal bleed that required hospitalization, and Faith was also hospitalized, after an attempted overdose involving over-the-counter painkillers

      https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/05/kyle-rittenhouse-american-vigilante

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
        922·
        6 months ago

        Gotta love a conservative family that votes to undermine all the social services they’d need in situations like this. But they seem to be able to afford guns…

      • stoly@lemmy.world
        1615·
        6 months ago

        A CNA does not earn money, it’s pretty much a minimum wage job. This person did not have the necessary intelligence or drive to attain their bachelors and become a full nurse–it’s as simple as that.

        My sister in law, bless her, is really one of the angriest persons you will ever meet. She hates everything out there and the world is bad, blah blah blah. I asked her why she became a phlebotomist. She told me she wanted to be a nurse but could not pass English 101. Seriously.

        Kyle’s mom? She’s the same.

        • GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          36·
          6 months ago

          I hate to defend Kyle’s mom, but man, shouldn’t a CNA or a phlebotomist be able to afford to survive in the area they work? In their case, I guess you reap what you sow.

          • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            22·
            6 months ago

            Yea being a cna is tough and underpaid. My ex is one, takes a couple months of study and passing a test. I, with a highschool degree made 6 dollars more than her when her job was 3 times tougher. It’s criminal. She worked harder and longer hours in a dangerous place with people who could and would harras and harm her. The harrasment was mental, verbal, physical and sexual as well. Fuck boomers.

            • GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              131·
              6 months ago

              You remember businesses calling everyone who worked a low appreciation job heroes? CNAs got the shittiest end of the stick on that I think.

              Giant banners calling you heroes greet you as you drive on the lot of the nursing home, and you look at them knowing you’re going to get physically shit on by the patients, and proverbially shit on by the higher level nurses, the administration that now works remote, the family of the patients, and of course the patients again as well. For $12/hr. And you’re extra short staffed because anyone that could find travel work did. Brutal shit for them.

              • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                6·
                6 months ago

                Holy hell if you aren’t right. I recall her getting all of those things at her work too and a measly 40 cent raise lul. All those banners and pins and lanyards and little gift bags if tiny hand sanetizers and candy. I think she made like 16 here in cali at the time, I recall hearing there’s a laaw that was gonna be passed or already passed to get them up to like 20 or 21 at the minimum. Crazy to think that’s what mcDonald’s employees earn here now while plenty of cnas in other parts of the state earn less still.

              • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
                5·
                6 months ago

                On the Dollop podcast if you’ve ever heard of it, one of the hosts is named Gareth. Gareth points out in an episode that in American culture we only ever call “heroes” the people we deem ‘expendable’. I have been unable to find a counterexample to that claim ever since I heard it.

          • meco03211@lemmy.world
            12·
            6 months ago

            I mean, I’d bet the majority of people on here would say anyone working a legit full time job should be able to afford to survive.

          • stoly@lemmy.world
            8·
            6 months ago

            It’s no different than public school teachers, I suppose. It’s not a field you get into unless it calls you for some reason–you’re certainly not in it for the money.

            We really need to reprioritize how we fund things around the world.