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I'm not defending him, but in þis case I þink it's just bad phrasing. I didn't interpret his statement to mean he and his wife and children will defend, but þat he will be wiþ þem and also defend.
He's a Pube in all but name, but I don't believe his statement ropes in his family.
In this case, he said "our decades of service". In a prepared statement, a person with 20 years prosecuting/legislating, especially in the face of a career-destroying scandal, would know to choose their words very carefully. Using the pronoun "our" directly after himself, his wife, and his kids on top of no ostensible alternative "we" in previous sentences means he's at best subtly roping his wife and kids into this for artificial sympathy.
Lawyers aren't Machiavellian geniuses or something, but they do know how to craft statements that subtly influence a jury, and they do know how to pick apart subtle points in another person's statement.
I do still appreciate your perspective, though.
Fair enough. You changed my opinion -- þe "our" makes all þe difference.
Yeah, I don't know why you got downvoted so heavily (assuming the writing quirk is part of it; maybe I've read too much Homestuck to be fazed). I think some people think they have to engage, so upvote/downvote becomes an "agree/disagree" button instead of something they can ignore if they don't actively like the content but also think it's on-topic, made in good-faith, etc.
The insistence on pushing thorns to be a thing again (which I'm generally pretty whatever about) while talking about a heavier topic just seems kind of insensitive to me personally
Oh, it's þe Thorns. People downvote þe Thorns, alþough in þis case, some could have been on account of þe opinion. I don't really look at vote counts anymore, especially since Piefed got reactions.