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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 270 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

Wasnt really a Luigi style shooting from what little Wikipedia has to offer so far. Dude just killed a bunch of random people and then offed himself. Literally just a mass shooting.

He killed:

  • Didarul Islam, a 36-year-old off-duty police officer (ACAB)
  • Blackstone executive Wesley LePatner (...)
  • Julia Hyman, a recent college graduate working for Rudin (questionable)
  • Aland Etienne, a 46-year-old security guard (probably not a cop considering it wasnt specified like with the other one)

Definitely not a targeted assassination. Still better than doing it in a school or club tho.

[–] banner80@fedia.io 217 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Just to be clear and without taking sides: Wesley LePatner appears to have been the CEO of the real estate portfolio of rental units. Literally the person most responsible for Blackstone buying up US housing at an alarming rate.

https://www.businessinsider.com/blackstone-real-estate-executive-wesley-lepatner-killed-gunman-345-park-2025-7?op=1

LePatner, 43 years old, was the $1.2 trillion firm's global head of Core+ real estate and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, the company's juggernaut real estate fund for individual investors.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, wouldn't surprise me if the guy got evicted by them or something like that.

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 months ago (12 children)

He literally had the wrong floor. Complete coincidence that his random act of violence happened to kill someone doing something evil, no one should be praising this guy.

[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Apparently, when the only justice in the world is accidental, people still praise the accident as a wonderful accident.

Whether you like it or not.

The scenario where nobody should be praising is the one where CEOs buy up tens of thousands of houses, and rig the prices so that hundreds of thousands of people are negatively affected by rent increases. Sometimes they end up on the street. Where they die.

That's the part that you're ignoring as you pretend to have a sense of morality.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

Not Bob Ross’s typical scenery for a painting, but I’m sure he’d pull it off.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not an accident. There's a high chance of randomly killing someone evil if you walk into any Park Ave office building.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, so far this basically sounds to me like if the guy from Falling Down walked into the building Patrick Bateman works at.

At worst, from a tactical effectiveness standpoint.

If it actually was a more or less specifically targeted attack, it would absolutely make sense that this would be massively underplayed and misconstrued by the broad media...

Because the last thing the broad media wants, is a lot of pissed off, suicidal, heavily armed Americans realizing that this can actually be a shockingly effective tactic, for those with nothing left to lose, ready to meet God or w/e.

The broader media being basically a totally corporate owned affair, that really, really would prefer it not become normalized that ... (semi?) random corpos just start getting gun downed in roughly the American version of insurgent suicide tactics, who are to a great extent capable of acting totally solo and are thus impossible to completely prevent at scale.

Call it the 'final form' of 'I'd like to speak with your manager'.

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[–] SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 months ago

The Lord works in mysterious ways.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any sources on that? I haven't seen anything that talks about a potential motive yet.

[–] antler@feddit.online 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://apnews.com/article/manhattan-office-shooting-nfl-nyc-d32bec88dfe208af1a413cec02034a14

Shane Tamura, a Las Vegas casino security worker, was carrying a handwritten note in his wallet that claimed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known at CTE, investigators said. He accused the league [NFL] of hiding the dangers of brain injuries linked to contact sports.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks, I guess if that's a note in his wallet it's clear enough. You could've gone on any floor in that building and killed someone that deserved it, apparently.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The NFL was on another floor, he just fucked up and got the wrong target.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 10 points 2 months ago

How many of the most vile corporations are in that building? Do Nestlé, Monsanto, and Raytheon have floors?

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[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Wait there's a company called "Blackstone" as well as one called "Blackrock", and both buy up real estate?

[–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

Blackstone is private equity. Blackrock makes the funds normal people buy for their retirement accounts.

[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Also a company called Vanguard. The 3 of them own almost everything

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't Vanguard 401ks? Or is that a different Vanguard?

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[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Blackrock doesn't do real estate at all. People have been confusing the two companies for a while. It's Blackstone you should hate for the housing crisis

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Is it bad I constantly confuse it for blackwater instead? I guess they murder the previous tenants, then buy up the house?

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

blackrock buys the German chancellor.

[–] xantonin@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh thank God. I thought it was the Blackstone that makes grill tops. I kept wondering what they did wrong.

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

Marketing team did an excellent job choosing a name for the company. You want the most discreet, unassuming name possible for "corporation that owns literally everything and is ruining the economy by principle"

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It may have been an incidental killing, but her loss will not be mourned by the general public, as she and her efforts are actually a direct and major contributor to the housing crisis we now face. The policies that she enacted are overly hostile towards… you know… literally every fucking normal person who aspires to own a house at some point. She materially contributed to the insane housing price bubble that’s somehow still not popping.

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

I swear, if there is a higher power, it just woke the fuck up

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 3 points 2 months ago

I didn't see that earlier. I think the news hadn't mentioned this until much later. I understand why my other comment was downvoted so much.

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Oh damn. I didn't see this before. No wonder my last comment got downvoted so much lol.

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 95 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Now that CEOs can die in mass shootings, maybe real prevention of mass shootings can happen.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 68 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Silly goose. They’ll just hire more private security.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Private security needs to protect him all the time. The Mario Bros only need to succeed once.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Sorry Mario, your CEO is in another castle

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Welcome to the cyberpunk future we all ~~dreaded~~ dreamed of!

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok. Now where is my fucking chrome and cyberdeck? I feel cheated cause we got all the dystopian shit but not the cool shit

[–] Bubbey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sorry bub, best we can do is a pair of meta raybans and a crappy android

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Well, maybe let a few more of them get caught up before we make those changes.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure, it wasn't exactly like Luigi but living afraid of being offed by some rando with mental health issues who doesn't even know who you are is a fear the working class knows all too well and the owning class indirectly created.

[–] jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

nah they pretty directly created it.

virtually every mass shooting is blood on the hands of our ruling class. when they refuse to correct it, rather than being unable to, it becomes apparent what they value more - people or profits?

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

I meant indirectly in the sense that they didn't actually give someone a gun and told them "go shoot people" but yeah, you're right.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

Literally just a mass shooting.

Blackstone executive Wesley LePatner (…)

Oh well, at least it took place in a place where the people doing actual damage to society are,instead of a kindergarden like usual.

Also, maybe it might make more people aware of what's happening these days.

[–] Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hard agree. He's no martyr like Luigi. Just another psycho destroying our society

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Eh.. society started it

[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It really has to be targeted to send a message. Not that anyone should desire to do so that would be bad and illegal.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago

It really depends on what message you're trying to send. If you're trying to say "executive officers are fair game", it has to be targeted at executives.

If you're trying to say "conduct your suicidal rampage in a boardroom, not a classroom", mission accomplished.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

Still better than doing it in a school or club tho.

I don't know why, but this sentence gave me a chuckle

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