• plyth@feddit.org
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            12 days ago

            He stood by her and supported her. He is complicit.

            It’s easy to accept that but then it’s not far fetched to think that everybody who keeps doing his job in the US or EU is guilty of supporting the war in Iran.

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              11 days ago

              Ehhh, that’s a slippery slope argument and kind of farfetched. Dude chooses who he is married to for years. People don’t choose where they are born, and a general strike/sabotage is more difficult than not choosing to marry a dog killing MAGA conservative and staying to marry them while they try their hardest to make people’s lives as difficult as possible.

            • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world
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              11 days ago

              everybody who keeps doing his job in the US or EU is guilty of supporting the war in Iran.

              Do you even know what the word “complicit” means?

              Yes, if you work for the Trump Administration you are complicit in their crimes.

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              11 days ago

              everybody who keeps doing their job in the US is guilty of supporting the war in Iran

              Yes, thats how responsibility works.

              Dunno what its like in the EU, cant speak on that.

            • Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
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              12 days ago

              I didn’t say he probably killed a dog. I said he actively supported a dog-killing, family-breaking, hatred filled monster of a woman. That makes him a peice of shit.

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                  12 days ago

                  Do…do you not support the person you are married to? What a ludicrous question. Are you or have you ever been in a romantic relationship before? Mutual support is, like, the basic fundamental principle.

                  I seriously can’t get over what a strange question that is. Like an alien who has only heard of humanity before.

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                    11 days ago

                    Are partners in abusive relationships complicit in and supportive of their own abuse?

                    Can you conceive of being in a relationship without actively supporting everything your partner does?

                    Do you think the wives and husbands of murderers are morally deficient if they don’t divorce their spouses in jail?

                    For that matter, do you think Kristi Noem’s justification of killing the dog is so impossible that her husband could not possibly believe it to have been reasonable?

                    This guilt-by-association is ugly and wrong. Some corners of the internet fetishise cutting off all contact with people the moment they transgress, but most people are in fact more forgiving than that, and so should they be.

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                    11 days ago

                    What a strange question to ask what he’s done to be mocked for crossdressing?

                    I’ve been in relationships before. That doesn’t mean I cosign everything my partner does.

                    And, I don’t know, maybe a wild hunch, but maybe they are estranged and married in name only? Maybe she’s taken a wild turn recently? I don’t know their personal life.

                    I’m not even defending Byron. He probably is a piece of shit. But he’s not a public person as far as I know and hasn’t done anything wrong that I know of. And no one in this thread has listed a single thing he’s done wrong other than being married to a reprehensible person.

                    So I don’t think he’s fair game for mockery at all, and especially not for crossdressing, especially not for things done in private, and especially not by purportedly tollerant people until I hear he’s done something wrong, not just been around someone who has.

                    You can feel however you want. My conscience is clear.