People made dozens of complaints while living there, and presumably, due to the Bay Area's housing crisis, had no where else to go. Some of them were homeless people desperate to put a roof over their head.
These are slumlords, and they will doubtless get a fantastic lawyer. They don't need you to defend them.

You could refresh your memory by watching the Chicago Fire/Law/Med three part crossover exploiting the tragedy, three months after it happened!
Fuck you, Dick Wolf. Couldn't have let the dust settle?

I just googled the complaints prior to the fire: apparently an inspector came out and couldn't make his way into the home due to all the debris and trash on the sidewalk and was-once-a-lawn-area. That's at least two blockages of the main way out.
And of course, because Oakland is terrible, the inspector didn't bother…

B I'll give you, a thousand times over, but A? Come on, man, these were mostly poor kids in a pretty poor part of Oakland. You don't have to cry for them but you don't have to condemn them either.

Ugh. Carpet? How gauche.

There were multiple complaints from multiple tenants about how unsafe the place was. The owners have had a reputation as slumlords for years.

They also had a jerry-rigged electrical system, complete with space heaters plugged into each other.
The entire thing still makes my blood boil.

I clicked on a different one and: "Olivia would've wanted to hear the hits."
Guys help I'm drowning in tears.

That's certainly an interesting interpretation.
I think there should be fact checking, for one thing. Perhaps someone could talk into Maher's ear and tell him when one of his guests is simply stating falsehoods? Ann Coulter was allowed to say that illegal immigration is at an all-time high. This is an outright lie,…

That's an objectively silly outfit and he's really making it work. He may honestly be one of the hottest men alive.

http://www.laweekly.com/new…
Shush.

As I said, I could go on.

I've been here six years. And I don't want you to worry about me. In fact, that brief time when you stopped commenting (I think you were getting a new job)? I actually worried about you. I knew you were in a dark place. But I think you're being an asshole on this, so I'm going to try to get you to understand.

Yeah, I honestly don't understand why it has so many defenders. I've watched it a lot, I feel I've given it a fair shot.
It's always just a rabid right winger baldly lying, knowing that a stoned Bill won't call them on it; a panel that won't stop shrieking over each other (usually with another right winger lying) and…

It's just so strange to me that you think anyone cares about your opinion on this.
Stop the presses! Ricky Coogin doesn't like that we don't say a hateful word!

Because Ricky talks about himself. A lot. He's a white guy from either Wisconsin or Michigan (I get them confused). He hates talking about politics. He has an imaginary daughter named Moira, nicknamed Putter, who never grows older than six and wears fifties styled clothing. He has an insane Puerto Rican friend. He…

We're literally all sitting here using words, thinking about words; some of us are carefully picking out words. Coogin himself is supposedly a goddamn grammar editor. Words matter. Not more than action, but they matter.

Ok, but you're not black, and black people have made it clear that the word itself is hurtful while the bowdlerized version is at least more polite. It's intentionally not a slur, while the word itself is. Pick a different fucking hill, man.

I miss those too. I understand the economics of running a website made them unfeasible, but maybe one or two could come back? Maybe if we all agreed to buy a mug?

Well, this is difficult. Do you mean why is the n word (the real one) so bad, or why is the bowdlerized one that disqus makes us use so bad?
ETA: I meant difficult to talk about, due to disqus' filter.
Edited again: I reread your comment and I think you're asking Coogin why he's annoyed that everyone says "the n word"…