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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 76 points 4 days ago (1 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"?

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

So inconsiderate! That CEO had a bright future ahead of him.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 259 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 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 203 points 5 days 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 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 29 points 4 days 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 47 points 4 days 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 31 points 4 days ago (9 children)

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

[–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago

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

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 91 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 64 points 5 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 47 points 4 days 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 38 points 4 days 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 30 points 4 days 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.

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[–] RedPandaRaider@feddit.org 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 122 points 4 days 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 56 points 4 days ago

At least something positive came out of this tragedy.

God works in mysterious ways

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

One of life’s happy little accidents

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[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 40 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Capitalism doesn't acknowledge social murder because doing so would call into question the entire resource extraction imperative of Capitalism itself.

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[–] prof 64 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

His manifesto is also just complete madness.

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

[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 35 points 4 days ago (2 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.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago

You should see what the military asks and offers.

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

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/

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 days ago (10 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.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You shoot enough capitalists tho...

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You're talking about tens of millions of people.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

Not with that attitude you can't.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

If we can shoot at tornados, we can find a way to shoot at capitalism.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (9 children)

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.

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[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 39 points 4 days 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 4 days 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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[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

bro stopped a mass murderer

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[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days 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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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 days ago (1 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.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

He played like JV football in highschool. That was apparently enough brain damage for him to an hero himself though.

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[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 49 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Absolutely wild that someone with CTE can get an assault rifle in America.

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