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[+] -11 points 4 months ago (11 children)

People arent siding with the landlord, they're siding with not leaving windows open with the A/C running as that is just wasting tons of energy over OP's neroticism.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

    People arent siding with the landlord

    People definitely are at times, and at other times are just actively against OP for not taking abuse quietly when they are seeking support.

    Let me break it down with direct quotes:

    "[...] I had some sympathy for you up to this point. You’re just a self centered asshole that doesn’t care about other people. Your landlord sounds like an asshole too, but now I’m kind of on their side. I wouldn’t want to deal with your bullshit either."

    Defending the landlord, who they view as an asshole, and simultaneously insulting the character of OP.

    "It’s pretty naive to assume that the landlord hasn’t documented the last several times they were forced to close your window. If I were you, I’d start looking for a place with an outdoor patio. At this point your landlord wants you gone and would probably be happy to let you out of the lease with all of the trouble you’re causing."

    Defending the landlord forcibly closing the window and accusing OP of causing trouble.

    "Today’s forecast for Riverside, CA is high of 90F and 80% humidity. I’d want this asshole kicked to the curb if I was another renter in the house dealing with someone repeatedly opening the windows and defeating the AC.

    Feels like a Reddit AITA creative writing exercise for rage bait. I don’t miss it."

    Person lying about the weather and saying they want OP kicked to the curb for wanting to have their window open in their closet-sized room for fresh air, for their cats to live a dignified life despite OP's limitations in being able to find adequate room for them to live indoors, to avoid the effects of shared ventilation and lack of temperature controls (including concerns about COVID).

    It’s hot out, really hot out, and you are sharing an ac. Two issues here. Humidity destroys houses and it is not good if the AC is pumping full time."

    Person overblowing humidity concerns/damage in Riverside, California (which is a relatively dry climate compared to some areas).

    "I was on the fence until I saw this outburst. Now I’m pretty sure you’re a shitty tenant who’s about to get evicted. You and the landlord both are probably imperfect, and I’m not really gonna bother with too many details since I think you posted more for validation than for advice, but I think your landlord has a slam dunk case if he finds your account here with posts and comments. It could be too late, but your best bet is to delete your account, lawyer up, and stfu online about this before it builds their case against you. The judge doesn’t give a shit about you, he cares about the property owner’s property and possibly whether you’re a disruption to other tenants."

    They are referencing when OP responded to a commenter who said "Do you often feel like everyone is against you no matter where you go?", to which they replied and called them out on having a "snide chud attitude". Which isn't my choice of words, but it's not a slur or a form of bigotry IMO to say that somebody has a bad attitude in a strong way, so who cares. Sometimes people have emotional outbursts to abusive comments or remarks, OP was responding to abuse.

    "No one cares anymore because your attitude is complete shit. Go complain somewhere else"

    "The good news is, we seem to have found the problem. Tge bad news is, you won’t like it."

    More abuse.

    OP didn't react the best, which is understandable, they are in a tough situation and facing housing insecurity. I can't imagine what that feels like in California.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Last time I was homeless was California for three years. I had to get into an abusive relationship to get off the street. I'm currently scared shirtless that I'm going to be homeless soon again. At the rate that homelessness is increasing, half the country will likely end up homeless in ten years

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  • [+] -9 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Well they won't freeze to death. Maybe if they weren't a giant asshole people would like them.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    They will just die of heat stroke in an unforgiving hellscape, while data centers that produce/facilitate slop/mass surveillance accelerate climate change and fresh water depletion. No big deal, right?

    So let me get this straight:

    If you're rich, you're privileged to destroy the planet and to live however you please.

    If you're poor, you don't deserve pets and you deserve to die of exposure, without a fair opportunity for shelter, because you said somebody's attitude had the characteristics of being snide and chud-like when they were abusing you and because you were perceivably a bad tenant from the perspective of online trolls.

    Thanks for bullying this vulnerable user and exposing your ideology.

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  • [+] -7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Cry me a fucking river. You get what you give in terms of positivity on the internet. I'm just redirecting their negativity back at them.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    You get off on that, you aren't guiding them to a better path. You want to traumatize OP. Not happening on my watch. Try again while I'm off-duty.

    Maybe more people will pick up the torch to support the hell out of the OP's you choose to abuse. It must be self-defeating to imagine that you might be motivating people (who have more empathy than you) helping the people you work hard to psychologically torture.

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  • [–] -4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Wow, thank you white knight! Where would the internet be without you?!

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    OP's landlord is threatening with eviction. Are you aware how fucking serious that is? In the current climate, this alone can single-handedly ruin someone's life and future. Eviction shouldn't even be on the table, and it wouldn't be, if it wasn't because of scalpers hoarding the entire housing market, and then holding working class people hostage if they don't play by the landlord's petty rules (which includes paying a fuckton of money monthly!)

    The instant that the landlord threatened with eviction, they positioned themselves solidly in the wrong. For such a disproportionate threat to be justified, there should be reasonable suspicion that the tenant is going to commit homicide or plant a bomb or something over that level. Anything below that is an abuse of power, and said power is only as legitimate as scalping the market is.

    I literally couldn't care less about AC or the window, and you are either being dishonest or acting like a shitty human being if you unironlically claim that the way OP uses AC warrants a threat of eviction. Even if OP were 100% in the wrong regarding AC (which is, in turn, not something I agree with, but I'm not getting into that), there is a whole world of difference in scale. By equating these two levels of magnitude, you are definitively siding with the landlord, even if you don't explicitly claim to do so (and you are, thus, also positioning yourself solidly in the wrong).

    Also, y'all should be ashamed to call OP 'insufferable' for replying in a slightly mean tone after continuously being told that akshually maybe the landlord is right, and that they're oh such a troublesome tennant, after being threatened with fucking eviction.

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  • [–] -5 points 4 months ago

    Wow what a moral crusader you are.

    Since half your rant is discussing housing, high costs, and the plight of the working class, I'm quite shocked that you have no issue with OP causing every other tenant in this shared house to not only not have cool air in their home, but also force them to pay sky high energy costs to blow a bunch of cooled air outside for no reason at all.

    I absolutely guarantee that if OP had come here and said "my housemate refuses to close their window throughout the day which keeps the air conditioner from working and leaves us with a huge energy bill every month" you'd be right here spouting the similar outrage but directed at the person selfishly leaving the window open. I don't take a single thing you said seriously because it's so absurd and over the top.

    OP has absolutely zero justification for what they're doing. Keeping the window open isn't going to keep them from getting COVID, they claim it's "too cold" yet also claim they "can just close the vent," and they claim they have 80lbs of stinky cat litter sitting on the floor which is their own damn fault. What this sounds like to me is untreated mental illness which is causing everyone else in their house problems. If they don't want to get evicted then maybe they should focus on that and stop forcing their problems on everyone else.

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