• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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      Why put “kidnap” in quotes, it’s not as if it’s a wild claim?

      It certainly wasn’t lawful in Venezuela, where I believe the kidnapping occurred.

      • rnercle@sh.itjust.works
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        because it actually is a “wifenab” or wifenap but the word doesn’t exist.

        it was not a political choice but a linguistic (non)sensibility

        • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          What? Kidnapping doesn’t only happen to kids, adults can be kidnapped as well. Also if you are dead set on calling it something else it would just be abducted, like she’s a whole person not just a wife.

          • rnercle@sh.itjust.works
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            yes, “abducted” is surely a better word choice but my comment was a reply to the title. so i used the same word and put it in quotation marks.

            Now… why did they abduct a “whole other person” who is Nicolás Maduro’s wife?

    • altphoto@lemmy.today
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      Who happens to be 13?

      And pregnant?

      And they murdered her baby?

      Seriously, this could get real worse real quick.

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        Let’s pretend for a minute that Maduro’s abduction was actually justified by anything that was given as a reason (spoiler: it’s not). How would that affect his wife still? Being married to a criminal and benefiting from their crimes without participation isn’t illegal.

        • Nomorereddit@lemmy.today
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          Its long been illegal to benefit from your spouses crimes.

          Calling a dictator’s spouse uninvolved ignores how authoritarian power works. When crimes are public and systemic, knowingly benefiting from the ruler’s wealth and privilege while offering loyalty or silence helps sustain the system, and the law already recognizes this by treating knowing benefit and facilitation as culpable even without direct action.

          Ps> re: maduro’s capture. in history only three things have hiatorically stopped a dictator:1 self destruction, 2 people rising up or 3 another country.