Locking post, as instance rules constantly being violated.

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.

If this guy's name is Mario I'm going to lose it.

Three different articles I've seen about this and not ONE of them even ATTEMPTS to explain what Blackstone is.

Yes, I could, and did, google it, but it's infuriating, on principle. It's a bsic reading comprehension concept: don't assume your reader knows outside context, when your audience is essentially random.

Didn't the CEO's hold "lone gunman" drills? Did they practice hiding under their desks? Were they children? No? Because that's what children have to go through every single day. This is just one day that the gunman went to a business, not a school.

I'd rather have gunmen shooting up slumlord CEOs than schools any day. Maybe if they kill enough CEOs, we can get some gun control laws that might save children. At schools. Because the CEOs that control the government sure don't give a single fuck about children being shot at school - and they never, ever will.

Best news I've heard all day.

I love it when some shooting or tragedy happens, if it's workers then all they get is one line at best and their lives get abbreviated to a statistic, but when some capitalist dies every news site writes about how great and authentic they were for a couple days.

Though given how this shooting was an example of lone wolf adventurism, it's quite dumb to support it - the CEO will be replaced by an identical cog in the machine like always, a decent part of the public will get alienated thanks to anti-violence culture and media narratives (as seen in articles like there) and the shooter just threw away their life.

Though I won't lie that it doesn't make the day a bit better to see capitalist get gunned down

Phew! I was worried it might have been an innocent victim.

Well, at least someone terrible was among those lost. I’ll take the silver-lining where I can get it. Rot in hell, corporate robber baron.

Last week, the Department of Justice announced it had filed an amended complaint to its antitrust lawsuit against RealPage in order to sue six of the largest U.S. landlords for their alleged participation in a nationwide rental price-fixing scheme. According to the complaint, the six landlords allegedly coordinated their rents with each other through use of RealPage’s pricing algorithms and direct communication with competitors about rents and occupancy, among other tactics. Of those six landlords, three are owned by private equity firms: Blackstone, Greystar Real Estate Partners, and Cortland Management.

Blackstone, the nation’s largest landlord, with around 350,000 rental units, has faced years of scrutiny from advocates for its poor treatment of tenants. In August, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) and the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) published a report examining how Blackstone has profited from rent hikes and ramped up evictions in California. In 2021, Blackstone acquired 5,800 rental units in the San Diego area. Since then, the report showed, Blackstone has increased the rent at these properties 38% — almost double the 20% average rent increase for all apartments in the San Diego market during this period. The rent increase at some Blackstone-owned buildings was especially high – up to 79%. The report also noted how Blackstone touted to investors multiple times how the firm’s real estate investments benefit from declining new supply of housing, a key driver of the affordable housing crisis.

“As more and more Americans struggle with the cost of putting a roof over their heads, corporate landlords were allegedly colluding to raise rents ever higher,” said Jordan Ash, Director of Housing at PESP. “Everyday Americans can’t keep up with the cost of rent. Homelessness is skyrocketing. Folks are choosing between medicine and a place to live. We applaud the Department of Justice for taking decisive action to hold profiteers like Blackstone accountable.”

https://pestakeholder.org/news/pesp-statement-on-department-of-justice-action-against-private-equity-landlord-blackstone-for-alleged-rental-price-fixing-scheme/

BlackRock and BlackStone are two separate companies people.

And nothing of value was lost.

If that exec fought harder for Work From Home maybe his work-life balance would still be in decent order

The whole "wait 20 years and shoot up the NFL because of highschool football" never fucking smelt right...

Even if this story is true, everyone needs to read up on Blackstone. If you're an American and have any sort of pension or retirement fund, Blackstone likely has a piece of it.

Like, you think a random guy with a billion or two is a problem?

Blackstone is trillion dollar fund, a billion dollars isn't enough to be a rounding error in their total investment.

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