What did you think “pursuit of happiness” meant?
So, vote his way/vote because his gun is to your head…? Really…?
I think Guest starring was not suggesting that he should vote his landlords way. Rather he was suggesting that he should cast his landlords vote for him, so the landlord did not have to go to the polls himself. (and presumably NOT cast the landlords vote for a Republican)
You might be right. Still: renting a floor/room in a house and having nothing at all between you and a Psycho but either wood flooring or drywall… neither of which is even close to bullet resistant, let alone bullet proof.
It’s a sobering thought (and I’ve paid good money not to be sober this close to Christmas).
Thanks, exactly.
And sure it’s possible he might end up blowing my brains out while I’m broaching the idea.
I have contact with my tenant under two circumstances. Something is broken or the rent is late. Thanks to the covid relief programs, it is now the former (exterminator and new washing machine this week). Rent hasn’t been late since she hasn’t been responsible for it - coming up on 18 months now. I couldn’t care less about her political views and I’d guess she feels the same.
Since he’s knows his landlord’s views, it seems they must have regular enough contact.
I’d also argue that it’s not a non-issue that someone is becoming radicalized, to the point of talking about bringing their gun to try and protect their “right” to be unvaccinated. It sounds like this landlord is being pushed the same way the insurrectionists were pushed. This sort of thing does eventually boil over.
He’s already demonstrated by not being vaccinated that he doesn’t understand that killing people is wrong. He lacks one of the most basic morals that we would expect. And now we know he’s being riled up enough to want to bring his gun to defend a non-existent right.
I would not feel comfortable having any interactions with such a person, even if I wasn’t paying them. I think the rise of so much crazy has dulled people’s senses about how dangerous these sorts of red flags really are. I genuinely would not trust the man described not to try and hurt me—at least once his preferred media gets him riled up enough.
These are the same people that will go on Fox News or Twitter and complain about being illegally censored or tell everyone that they’re losing their freedom of speech because MSNBC won’t play something they said or Facebook took down a post. The same people that said they’re being censored because, as is the style, their name was written as First Name Last Name instead of Dr Last Name.
I don’t think he, or anyone with a similar mindset, needs a whole lot of convincing. They’ll happily parrot whatever Fox told them.
For a group of people that consistently calls the other side sheep/sheeple, it’s funny how often some of my right wing acquaintances say something that can be tracked back, almost word for word, to something on Fox. And as someone else said, if you push back, even a little, they have nothing and quickly resort to getting mad that you won’t take what they said at face value.
If I’m right from reading other threads, it sounds like the OP hangs out with his landlord. As in, the landlord lives on site and they sit around in the landlord’s apartment. I even got the feeling that they don’t have other friends, so “have no choice”.
In which case, I’d say "You NEED to get other friends, or at least another place to be. And you need boundaries, especially from people who could potentially go off half-cocked (no, in this case fully-cocked).
Apologies to the OP if I have them mixed up with another person in a similar situation.
While the difference isn’t huge, especially if they’re both ‘all talk’, there is an important difference between saying you loaded your guns and saying you have a plan to shoot people in a specific location on a specific day. It’s like saying “I hate my boss so much I could kill him right now” vs “If my boss doesn’t let me work tomorrow, I’m going down there next Tuesday and killing him and the HR person”.
Neither are good, but the latter is specific enough that it might warrant some attention or intervention.
You’d say that to the OP or the OP should say that to the landlord? Though I suppose it works either way.
If I were the OP, I’d probably ignore it if it was just mentioned once in passing. But if it gets repeated regularly, or sounds like he’s getting serious about it, I’d strongly consider calling the police. This decision would be even easier if you knew that he’d said the same thing to other people so it couldn’t be directly tracked back to you.
The landlord likely has plenty of friends already, right there in his head, telling him everything that he wants to need to hear.
I see a new Rutger Hauer romp.
Stolen, saved and destined to flummox some of my cousins.
Just popped in there to see five new puppies. A podcast was playing. “We need to make these people who hate America pay for what they’ve done to our country and our president!”
Funny how this statement can be used by the right and the left.
Yep. Which is why I think it is the statement of choice from the troll farms in Moscow who want to stir shit and put people against each other…
Sadly it works, because if I’m not paying attention stuff like that starts making angry and wanting to punish trumpicans.
Puppies! Pics please!
No, landlord pic!
What if the puppies ARE the landlords?