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AITAH for not apologizing to my dad after he yelled at me over new phones?

So I 17 F and my twin sister got into it with our dad yesterday. It all started about six months ago when he said that he’d get us new phones. That was fine by us because we have iPhone 12s and hers doesn’t really work very well. Fast forward to now and we still don’t have new phones. Since then he’s been saying that he’s going to get us new phones every once in a while. That whole thing tuned into “if you do this, then I’ll get you guys new phones,” or asking us if we had money. Mind you it’d be stuff like clean your room and we don’t have jobs because they don’t let us have jobs. Anyway it all came to a head yesterday at dinner. My sister had asked him (like she’d done 100 times by now) when we were getting new phones. I don’t remember what he said because I was serving my food. Long story short my sister got upset because she was sick and tired of him basically lying and saying we were getting new phones when we really weren’t any time soon. So my sister gets upset and starts communicating the fact that he had said we were getting new phones like 100 times already but still hadn’t gotten them, and this was her whole point. He gets angry and gradually starts yelling louder and louder about how we can’t get new phones because he just doesn’t have the money right now (something completely understandable). He then finds the need to get out of his chair while he is still loudly yelling about how we think we’re owed everything (a complete lie that goes to show how much he doesn’t know us) and how he works so hard to pay for everything like mortgage and everything. This is very valid and he does. But the thing is, the problem was never about the phones. It was about the fact that HE was the one who had said that he’d get us new phones but instead decided to keep on stringing the idea for months instead of just clearly communicating the fact that he didn’t have the money. By the time he was done he told us that we should pay for our new phones and he would not be paying for them. I was obviously upset because I got yelled at for basically nothing and he was just putting lies on my name. Now I couldn’t say anything back because he just kept on telling us to be quiet and calm down while he continued to rise from 0 to 100. Now my mom thinks that we should apologize to him but I personally see no need for me to apologize as I did not do anything wrong. Am I the asshole?

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u/Fabulous-Traffic1167 — 11 days ago