A community to post anything related to Luigi Mangione.
This is not a pro-murder community. Please respect Lemmy.world ToS.
Until we know more we shouldn't.
We shouldn't glorify a person. We should glorify a deed. His intention most likely wasn't to shoot the bourgeoise, but just to shoot people. He just happened to get her.
But out of 4 victims we know one was a CEO and one was a cop. So only the other two may be innocents.
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.”
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.
You shoot enough capitalists tho...
You can shoot a capitalist, but you can’t shoot capitalism.
Not with that attitude you can't.
If we can shoot at tornados, we can find a way to shoot at capitalism.
he wasn't even motivated against capitalism. he was an athlete who suffered from CTE and asked for his brain to be examined in a note before he shot himself in the chest with a rifle (something that requires a bit of forethought - he deliberately saved his brain for analysis). https://nypost.com/2025/07/29/us-news/nyc-shooter-shane-tamura-thanked-a-cte-documentary-and-listed-names-of-prominent-neuroscientists-in-suicide-note-sources/
This was supposed to be anti pro-sports violence, I guess.
I bet they won't even do a brain exam. It will be seen as "giving the killer what he wanted" and "disrespecting his victims" if they honor his request.
Most importantly the NFL will get to keep pretending everything is fine.
Most importantly the NFL will get to keep pretending everything is fine.
fuck. this is depressingly plausible.
Or maybe they'll do the exam but the results will be inconclusive and the brain will end up misplaced so that his family can't have have their own tests done. Hell, the NFL might start adding clauses to contracts that require players to donate their bodies "to science" upon death. Don't they already require them to use "NFL approved" doctors? Anything to keep independent doctors from diagnosing CTE in their dead players.
Can't even enjoy some sports without having to watch late stage capitalism grind humans into pieces.
I wouldn't put any of it past that meat market circus we call pro sports.
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"?
Respect.
The CEO killed people every week, just not with a firearm.
Capitalism doesn't acknowledge social murder because doing so would call into question the entire resource extraction imperative of Capitalism itself.
bro stopped a mass murderer
Something about dicks fucking assholes
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.
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.
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.
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.
His manifesto is also just complete madness.
I mean that's expected, he had CTE after all
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.
You should see what the military asks and offers.
I have a feeling he didn't mean to kill the blackstone ceo, just a stroke of good luck
At least something positive came out of this tragedy.
God works in mysterious ways
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:
Definitely not a targeted assassination. Still better than doing it in a school or club tho.
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.
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.
Now that CEOs can die in mass shootings, maybe real prevention of mass shootings can happen.
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.
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?
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.
He played like JV football in highschool. That was apparently enough brain damage for him to an hero himself though.
Absolutely wild that someone with CTE can get an assault rifle in America.
