lol is this what this thread has devolved into? Needing drawn testimony to prove Cole isn't a family hating monster? We can all agree Barb is an awful mother and person but outside of Chris' incest bullshit, she is also a victim in Cole not wanting to talk to her again?
I can't wait for the Aunt Harriet Trial Thread.
I personally don't like Cole. I think he's a pretentious faggot who needs to get his head out of his own ass. With this in mind, I don't fault Cole for not wanting to be around Barb (much less associate with Barb in any capacity). Even if we knew nothing about his upbringing, Barb's treatment of Chris gives us a good reference point to infer what kind of parent she was to Cole.
Also, let's not forget that Barb (up until recently)
lives with his infinitely more "popular" brother. Barb's entire life has been under the proverbial microscope ever since Chris was discovered back in 2007. Even if Cole wanted to interact with Barb, even on a "I don't forgive you, but I still wanna be civil" level, what's stopping Cole's entire life from unravelling the moment that he sets foot into 14BC?
Chris has no filter in all the worst possible ways. If Cole and his wife decided to fly out to Charlottesville and take a cab to 14BC, Chris would've blabbed on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and all the other platforms he had a presence on that his estranged half-brother is visiting. He made a huge spectacle when Barb allegedly received flowers from Cole last year, so I can only imagine what would've happened if he showed up at 14BC with that stupid trilby and said "Hi" for the first time in 15 years.
Even if Barb had the sweetest personality imaginable and that all the things we know about Barb's life prior to having Chris was a lie, that still doesn't change the fact that Barb herself is an
extremely difficult person to live with. She's a compulsive hoarder who's in toxic levels of debt specifically because she can't control her unhinged spending. Cole isn't independently wealthy, but legally speaking: he married into a rich family. Even if Cole
wanted to fly Barb up to NYC to live with him and his family, what's stopping Cole's wife (or her family) from saying "no fucking way?" 14BC is a full-on house and it burned to the ground because the hoard got that bad. Cole lives in an overpriced apartment in Manhattan. They'd get evicted the moment that one of the neighbours complains that the hoard is blocking out a window.
Also, to play devil's advocate for a moment: who's to say that Cole
isn't doing something behind the scenes? Cole is certainly
aware of what happened to Barb, considering how half his tweets got deleted because weens kept quote-tweeting them by bringing up the incest shit. If Cole is cooperating with Ruckersville in any capacity, if he's making any living arrangements for Barb on her behalf, if he's even
talking to Barb on the phone, why the
fuck should he advertise this information? Chris's entire infamy stems from his complete inability to keep his mouth shut. If Cole's actually being proactive about Barb's situation in whatever way possible, it would be in his best interest to keep it on a "need-to-know" basis. His followers on Twitter, the 10-20 viewers he has on his videos, and the people who read his reviews on Rotten Tomatoes don't
need to know about his thoughts about his tard brother who raped their senile mother; they just
want to know.
I'm not saying you shouldn't shit on Cole. There's a million reasons to do that. However, shitting on Cole for not doing anything about Barb in the present day is fucking retarded. There's no conceivable angle you can look at this situation and justify Cole being the bad guy. I've said it before and I'll say it again: if the circumstances were such that Cole was
legally obligated to make arrangements for Barb, the most he'd do is just foot the bill for a home. That's it. That's just my personal take though. With all the variables I listed above, who knows what's going on behind the scenes?