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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.
https://www.businessinsider.com/blackstone-real-estate-executive-wesley-lepatner-killed-gunman-345-park-2025-7?op=1
Yeah, wouldn't surprise me if the guy got evicted by them or something like that.
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.
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.
A happy accident, yes?
Not Bob Ross’s typical scenery for a painting, but I’m sure he’d pull it off.
It's not an accident. There's a high chance of randomly killing someone evil if you walk into any Park Ave office building.
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'.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Do you have any sources on that? I haven't seen anything that talks about a potential motive yet.
https://apnews.com/article/manhattan-office-shooting-nfl-nyc-d32bec88dfe208af1a413cec02034a14
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.
How many of the most vile corporations are in that building? Do Nestlé, Monsanto, and Raytheon have floors?
Wait there's a company called "Blackstone" as well as one called "Blackrock", and both buy up real estate?
Blackstone is private equity. Blackrock makes the funds normal people buy for their retirement accounts.
Also a company called Vanguard. The 3 of them own almost everything
Isn't Vanguard 401ks? Or is that a different Vanguard?
Yes
Blackrock doesn't do real estate at all. People have been confusing the two companies for a while. It's Blackstone you should hate for the housing crisis
Is it bad I constantly confuse it for blackwater instead? I guess they murder the previous tenants, then buy up the house?
blackrock buys the German chancellor.
Oh thank God. I thought it was the Blackstone that makes grill tops. I kept wondering what they did wrong.
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"
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.
I swear, if there is a higher power, it just woke the fuck up
Oh damn. I didn't see this before. No wonder my last comment got downvoted so much lol.
I didn't see that earlier. I think the news hadn't mentioned this until much later. I understand why my other comment was downvoted so much.
Now that CEOs can die in mass shootings, maybe real prevention of mass shootings can happen.
Silly goose. They’ll just hire more private security.
Private security needs to protect him all the time. The Mario Bros only need to succeed once.
Sorry Mario, your CEO is in another castle
Welcome to the cyberpunk future we all ~~dreaded~~ dreamed of!
Ok. Now where is my fucking chrome and cyberdeck? I feel cheated cause we got all the dystopian shit but not the cool shit
Sorry bub, best we can do is a pair of meta raybans and a crappy android
Well, maybe let a few more of them get caught up before we make those changes.
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.
I meant indirectly in the sense that they didn't actually give someone a gun and told them "go shoot people" but yeah, you're right.
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.
Hard agree. He's no martyr like Luigi. Just another psycho destroying our society
Eh.. society started it
It really has to be targeted to send a message. Not that anyone should desire to do so that would be bad and illegal.
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.
I don't know why, but this sentence gave me a chuckle