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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 268 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 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 216 points 1 week ago (11 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 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago (16 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 1 week ago (6 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.

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[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 week ago (5 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 1 week ago

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

[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 95 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

Sorry Mario, your CEO is in another castle

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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 week 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 1 week 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?

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 132 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I have a feeling he didn't mean to kill the blackstone ceo, just a stroke of good luck

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago

At least something positive came out of this tragedy.

God works in mysterious ways

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of life’s happy little accidents

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 77 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is HORRIBLE! DOESNT he know that if you Want to Commit a MASS SHOOTING in the United States you MUST Target a SCHOOL and NOT places where Rich People wor"KKK"?

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[–] prof@infosec.pub 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I was in NY 2 blocks away when this happened. This dude has no redeeming qualities and would have happily shot you for looking at him funny.

He wanted to kill people from the NFL but did no reconnaissance and ended up murdering 4 completely unrelated people.

His manifesto is also just complete madness.

Edit to add: If anything this is another reason why there should be more publicly available resources for combating mental health issues and tighter gun control. But we all know there will only be thoughts and prayers and no real change coming any time soon.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

His manifesto is also just complete madness.

I mean that's expected, he had CTE after all

[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah the important part is not that he couldn't put together a thesis, it's that there's a multi billion dollar industry that gives the hope of millions and stardom to young males as long as they sacrifice their brain health.

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[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 61 points 1 week ago (5 children)

He took the wrong elevator. He was looking for the NFL offices as he blamed them for his CTE. Only one person he shot worked for the NFL.

[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a condition that may result from head injuries, especially in athletes of contact sports like boxing or football. The condition slowly damages parts of the brain and may cause trouble with memory, other thinking skills, behavior, personality, speech or balance.

So, when the NFL encourages an unsafe sport that damages the brains of their members to the point that they can no longer find the correct elevator to the floor of the NFL, that's not the NFL's fault? They're out there encouraging people to concuss themselves stupid every single day. "It's safe!". No, it isn't. It's dangerous, and nobody gives a shit about the player's brain damage.

I'm glad to see the players fighting back. Maybe it'll spark yet another discussion about football players and boxers not having enough protection for their sport.

"Not enough protection, we need better equipment"

"So, you want a higher salary, right? Because we want to see blood and injuries. If you don't want to do it, we'll find someone else willing to lobotomize themselves for a way out of crushing poverty. Why do people think the NFL is evil?"

[–] bestagon@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Not just encourage but actively suppress research into

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[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yeah, the media is not suppressing some working class hero story here. It's just a man who lost his marbles.

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[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

When are cops and ceos gonna stop celebrating the killing of the working class?…. Just playing devils advocate here.

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[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The CEO killed people every week, just not with a firearm.

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[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Keep defunding mental health and social welfare, see where it gets you. Feel bad for the recent college grad and the security guard. Not so bad for the cop and the CEO of the corrupt investment firm.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Therapy for a year through my insurance: 900 dollars out of pocket.

Glock 19 gen 5: 550 dollars out of pocket.

Hmmmmmm, I wonder why this country is so fucked up.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I neither praise nor blame him. I blame the NFL for not taking good care of him though. No-one deserved to die over that. Fuck capitalism.

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[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This headline can easily be part of an intended effort to associate the luigie situation with any shooting of a CEO or business leader. Reasons matter. Protecting luigie means enforcing strict conceptual differentiating between him and other acts of violence. We know there's a difference, we need to enforce that difference in every space the topic comes up. As soon as Luigie is successfully lumped in with random acts of violence, he loses the public sentiment that is his best protection.

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[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

bro stopped a mass murderer

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[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

~~He shot a Blackstone CEO, yet when I search for him the media reports on his football career as a potential reason?~~

~~What the hell? America is not in a position where the assassination of CEOs needs to be explained. The question is how some of them can still show their faces in public.~~

Edit: See comments below. I'm dumb and/or jumping to conclusions too quickly.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You’d be right if he only shot a Blackstrone CEO. But apparently he shot 4 random people, one of them turned out to be a Blackstone CEO. That’s different.

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[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago (19 children)

I would only be impressed if somebody actually did something about the conditions that created the CEO in the first place.

Bullets are famously ineffective against these conditions.

You can shoot a capitalist, but you can't shoot capitalism.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You can shoot a capitalist, but you can’t shoot capitalism.

Not with that attitude you can't.

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[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You shoot enough capitalists tho...

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You're talking about tens of millions of people.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not at all. I'm talking about a few hundred. Tops.

Most people who identify as capitalists aren't. Theyre ideologues who like the idea of capitalism because they think theyll be the one wearing the boot stepping on all our necks one day. They don't own capital. They don't make fortunes leeching off the rest of us. They don't ruin lives or kill thousands via social murder by denying housing, food, or medicine to extract a rent.

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You think you can destroy capitalism by killing under a thousand people?

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

No. But it would reign in its worst impulses. Remind the rest that they're mortal.

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