you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 271 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (59 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.

  • source
  • hideshow 59 child comments
  • [–] 214 points 1 year ago (41 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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 41 child comments
  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 11 child comments
  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    They manage these huge funds. The people who invested in their funds own the stocks in the funds. Though these companies do vote during stockholder meetings on behalf of their clients without the clients inputs. Thus they wield a lot of power over many companies but they don't own it all. If all their clients decide to drop them and liquidate they lose all that power.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] a comment that isn't shown here: deleted, from someone you've blocked, or on another page. view the thread from it
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There was great writeup about it a few years ago that I can't remember the name of at the moment. Basically, they all own each other as well. They all own portions of every company and together they all own over 50% in so many things that they have a controlling vote in a majority of board rooms. That is a VERY birds eye view of it but it's not good.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    They all own portions of every company and together they all own over 50% in so many things that they have a controlling vote in a majority of board rooms.

    Thanks for the clarification. If you do find the article I'd be curious because if I check the

    and others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asset_management_firms whereas sovereign wealth funds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund#Largest_sovereign_wealth_funds are only up to $2T.

    So... if I do roughly the sum of AUM I don't even get to half of $100T. Maybe they have controlling shares (to define here because not sure I understanding correctly, i.e. single seat on board vs majority of seats in order to actual control) somehow in the US with a total valuation under $50T but somehow overall I don't see how. Also together would mean some kind of coordination, which I'm not saying is impossible but beside generating more money I'm not sure they have a "goal" that would imply using said control.

  • source
  • parent
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (19 children)

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

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 19 child comments
  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (18 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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 18 child comments
  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (4 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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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'.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
  • [–] a comment that isn't shown here: deleted, from someone you've blocked, or on another page. view the thread from it
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    He was gunning for the NFL not Blackstone. Thus wrong target/floor.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] a comment that isn't shown here: deleted, from someone you've blocked, or on another page. view the thread from it
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The source is the suicide note. The various articles covering this story almost all mention it just read some of them. Hes not perfectly explicit in the note but it seems pretty clear that was his intended target based on what's contained in it.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (2 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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (-1 replies)
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year 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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 10 points 1 year 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"

  • source
  • parent
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • [–] 95 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Welcome to the cyberpunk future we all dreaded dreamed of!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 32 points 1 year 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.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (2 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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 7 points 1 year 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.

  • source
  • parent