Wesley LePatner, a Blackstone executive who served as CEO of the firm's real estate income trust, was among four people killed Monday when a gunman opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building that houses Blackstone's global headquarters.

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[–] 308 points 1 year ago* (24 children)

I'll go ahead and be the bad taste in everyone's mouth:

Good fucking riddance. Blackstone is an explicitly evil company, and everyone working for them should be ashamed. It is not possible to be an executive at Blackstone and also be a good person, they are diametrically opposed ideals.

If I believed the US justice system gave a single fuck about the evils that the rich committed, I would be more aghast by this... but I don't, and I'm not.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm wondering if they're purposely reporting this differently than they did the United Health Care CEO because they didn't like how that went

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    I think so. They keep saying the gunman meant to go to the NFL offices in the same building. With the source being "trust me bro". Like they've released nothing.

    I think the truth is this is a copycat killer going after the corporate elite and they want to hide that.

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  • [–] 114 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Lots thinking the same. It takes courage to say it.

    There’s the unwritten rule you don’t speak ill of the dead. It’s weird, you can call them an a$$whole all you like when the are alive, as soon as they die then it’s bad taste. Death does not absolve them. They were horrid and peddled misery to others. We need to be voicing this more.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The threads about Hulk Hogan dying were interesting. Lots of love for Ozzy in there.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ozzy wrote songs about how powerful people send poor people to die in nonsensical wars.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    And then he and his wife spoke in favor of (denial of) Israels genocide in Gaza. He can rest in piss as well.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Mostly Ozzy's wife to be fair; in the years leading up to his death his brain really hasn't functioned properly (literally) and he just said that he doesn't understand why there's anti-semitism, no?

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    Definitely find it reasonable to use it as a political and personal litmus test; I generally do the same. Perhaps Ozzy was more of a genuine Zionist than I expected - I am too young to care about him and Black Sabbath too much - but he just appeared to me like a drugged up old lad who had no clue what was going on around him. I saw him at Copenhell some years back and I'm convinced that he had no idea who or where he was, so I guess I just mostly view him like that

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    In the mid-aughts, I had an opportunity to do IT in Iraq for one of these mercenary outfits. It was good, tax-free money, but I declined because I didn't want to work for evil. Every person who works there had to make the same choice and chose to work for evil. Have no sympathy for anyone who works for these fucks.

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    You should take any job involving Target and then do a job that looks good but breaks easily.. then once that happens you go fix it again and you can donate some of it to a charity! See it as a way of wealth redistriburion

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  • Do you think the death star would have officers families on it or something. Maybe not. What about conscripts? And how do we classify clones, they didn't really make a choice. Though at the end of the day, it was a planet killer. Anyone decent there was really just a human shield. I would call it a sad but decent trade.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I would probably take the work at target, overcharge them and donate the overcharged portion to black community non-profits. Assuming you're the one to be able to make such calls, but they probably would go with someone else anyways if you quoted the overcharged rate.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Ya I have zero sympathy for elite members of society whose only way to the top is by taking from the countries poorest. Fuck em.

    In surprised it’s taken this long for someone to take action against Blackstone.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oh it was accidental. Somebody just let loose in a manhattan office and managed to hit a few parasites, go figure. They really meant to attack the nfl for suppressing research into the effects of head trauma on football players

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I first learned of this shooting via chat, and was lacking some context. I also didn’t know Blackstone INC was a thing.

    I got so confused about why someone would target the CEO of a griddle company.

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