• nothx [he/him]English
    29•6 months ago

    This is so fucking funny! They are blaming it on the “Venezuelan gang”. Hahahahhahaha

    ‘We’re just trying to share our homes, make a decent living and just, you know, have a normal life.’

    Oh fuck off, being a land owner isn’t a job. Eat shit, Karen.

  • BioWarfarePosadist [she/her, they/them]English
    44•6 months ago

    This is as nothing burger as it gets.

    Like the gum stuff was the worst thing, and I agree… Gang, even when screwing over landlords spitting out gum onto the ground is just unsanitary and gross.

    But that’s like local chat with the gals level news, not international news.

    • SadArtemis [she/her]English
      10•6 months ago

      Gang, even when screwing over landlords spitting out gum onto the ground is just unsanitary and gross.

      On one hand agreed, on the other hand considering she went to spread her hysterical blood libel afterwards, they should have done way more than gum. They should have pissed and shidded all over her nasty little airBnB, give her something to really whine about.

            • SadArtemis [she/her]English
              3•6 months ago

              Admittedly I don’t recognize you from the latter as I don’t think I ever interacted with Chapo to that extent (the old subreddit before the ban, yes - but I actually wound up on Hexbear from r/genzedong -> Lemmygrad -> Hexbear).

              If anything I’d say that- while I think I’m on the tracha chapo.chat- I don’t know how to get on the full (Chapo.chat) 😵 it was 100% the name (also if u want it’d be real cool if I could get in on chapo.chat)

  • wombat [none/use name]English
    27•6 months ago

    the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

  • 7bicycles [he/him]English
    40•6 months ago

    Martiz said her suspicions were first raised when she heard multiple voices coming through on her Ring doorbell camera

    I hope she gets sued for insane privacy violations, too.

  • Jew [he/him]OPEnglish
    105•6 months ago

    Update: the migrant thing was made up by the sheriff. Theres no evidence it was a gang whatsoever.

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]English
      15•6 months ago

      And as usual people will tune out any info contrary to the lies. Can’t wait to hear my family randomly bringing this up.

    • buckykat [none/use name]English
      45•6 months ago

      Tren de Aragua is now an all purpose excuse in Colorado. Who made the slumlord not collect the trash? Tren de Aragua. Who messed up the Airbnb with a wild party? Tren de Aragua. Who pooped my pants? Tren de Aragua.

      • LeninsBeard [he/him]English
        28•6 months ago

        Who made the slumlord not collect the trash? Tren de Aragua

        Didn’t someone (Liberation News maybe?) go there and it basically turned out to be this? Like slumlords were using it as an excuse to basically never visit the properties or do basic repairs.

        • buckykat [none/use name]English
          24•6 months ago

          Yeah, that slumlord was the start of this current round of “Venezuelan supergang taking over Aurora, CO” hysteria. He’s been doing slumlord shit for years and the state finally decided to do some kind of enforcement so he made up this Tren de Aragua story.

    • Rom [he/him]English
      64•6 months ago

      Weird that this doesn’t stop reactionary media outlets from reporting it as fact anyway soviet-hmm

      • Jew [he/him]OPEnglish
        50•6 months ago

        Police funding is on the ballot in Colorado so they need to manufacture some fear rn

  • Jew [he/him]OPEnglish
    78•6 months ago

    This is my favorite election season boogeyman so far. How do they know it was the supergang that partied there? House doesn’t even look that “trashed”. This shit happens in every city w Airbnb but this time it was a BLOODTHIRSTY SUPERGANG, which is a great band name btw

      • REgon [they/them]English
        50•6 months ago

        Literally. A bunch of friends and I rented a summerhouse for a week for what was basically a week-long bender. We had to pay about 650$ upfront for a non-optional “cleaning fee” that wasn’t included in the price of the house. I say up front, but it wasn’t. It was a real shady procedure, but we didn’t complain because we booked it last minute due to a natural disaster destroying the familial home of a friend of a friend, which was where we were supposed to go, and besides the place was about 500$ cheaper than all like places, so we only ended getting scammed for 150$ (enbie math)

        We didn’t trash the place, but we also didn’t take any special effort not to make it dirty. Especially not with that outrageous fee, it made us assume they had professional cleaners or something. On the day of check-out a single elderly lady shows up to clean. It’s obvious it’s a sidegig for her to pay her bills, she couldn’t even lift chairs. I don’t know what the fuck they were thinking. I don’t think she got paid more than 80-100$ either.
        We do as much as we can to help her before our transport picks us up, but… We were 12 people being drunk af for a week and she had arthritis. She told us someone was coming to help her, but I doubt it. I think she probably cleaned for an hour and left, I imagine that was the deal she had with the landlord who owned 7 houses on that road. Ghoul.

        We then got a followup letter complaining about how dirty we left the place. They also tried to charge us for stuff like a dirty toaster (which we cleaned both before we used it and after we left because it was nasty) and other similar stuff that had just been broken for years probably. Luckily one of us on the trip was studying law, but like, the fucking audacity.
        We ended up sending a letter detailing how shitty the house was beforehand and then explaining (as if to a baby, I did the writing, so I made sure it was sassy as shit) that if you charge a cleaning fee - especially one so damn high - then you can’t complain about the place being dirty.

        • Bloobish [comrade/them]English
          37•6 months ago

          We ended up sending a letter detailing how shitty the house was beforehand and then explaining (as if to a baby, I did the writing, so I made sure it was sassy as shit) that if you charge a cleaning fee - especially one so damn high - then you can’t complain about the place being dirty.

          Landlords and not wanting to actually make use of the BS cleaning fees they charge for, a tale as old as time.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]English
      30•6 months ago

      This is the exact kind of thing my mom would call me about and say to watch out for she saw it on the news and I’d point out these kinds of holes and she’d just become a deer in headlights and be like “well the news says it’s dangerous I’d rather be wrong than right” lol