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.
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.
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.
This right here is exactly why I have no issue with the Luke and Lando destroying either death star.
Were there independent contractors present? Tons. Heaps, even.
I can tell you a contractors personal politics comes into play heavily when choosing jobs.
Anyone who knows the score and chooses to actively participate in evil and morally dubious business gets no sympathy if shit hits the fan.
Also as 3rd party labor, most recently I refused to do any jobs that took me into a Target. Lost out on about $3000 of work, but they will never get anything from me, even if they’re paying me for it (directly or not)
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.
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
Goddamn… this is actually a really well framed and boiled down to the guts of it kinda statement. Every now and then, but all too rarely, bad things happen to bad people. Thanks Chief. Tell Keiko I said hi
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.
This is why i manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination.
Bunch of savages
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.
Fuck social rules, you deserve the death you lived. And this piece of shit deserves to have his corpse desecrated and his name run through the mud.
The threads about Hulk Hogan dying were interesting. Lots of love for Ozzy in there.
Ozzy wrote songs about how powerful people send poor people to die in nonsensical wars.
And then he and his wife spoke in favor of (denial of) Israels genocide in Gaza. He can rest in piss as well.
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
Absolutely. That’s why seeing love for him dominating a dirtbag’s death notice was fantastic.
Immediately at death is when we should discuss someone’s legacy, good or bad
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
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.
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.
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.
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
In a Manhattan corporate office building in the middle of the workday, unless you’re exclusively shooting at security forces or catering workers your odds are pretty good of shooting an asshole.
Oh wow! Didn’t know that!
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BlackrockBlackstone is a fucking MASSIVE corporate residential landlord.They are not a good company. They are an evil company, for that fact alone.
send more blue shells
Blackstone
“They are not a good company”… are there any good corporations?
There are some that are a heck of a lot better. Oxfam, Ben & Jerries, maybe Valve; but it does seem that on a large enough timeline all of them turn to the dark side.
Regular reminder that Ben and Jerry’s are wholly owned by Unilever who definitely do some shady shit.
Ben and Jerry’s pulled put of the west bank. Uniliver make them come back there.
Presumably that’s a question of the founders, the rules and laws of the system, the state of the market and technology. For example if profit can be improved mostly by marketing, this will lead to marketing people be promoted and run the corporation. If it’s a publicly traded company it’s likely to become more like an artificial intelligence hellbent on profit (or a demonic entity incorporated into a swarm of drones).
What are the factors that make corporations like good or bad for society should be long studied and taught in high school and everybody should know them - if you’d wanted capitalism to work as advertised. It should be a major focus of our society.
Well, isn’t there a difference between a ‘company’ and a ‘corporation’, at least in how the words are perceived (corporations being those multinational giants built on exploitation)? I feel like there are plenty of good small and medium sized companies - like the one I work for is medium sized and mainly promotes and researches green technologies (to keep it vague…). Corporations always seem to have plenty of skeletons in the closet.
It’s just how the legal entity is filed. You can have a one man corporation too, but it’s going to be annoying because of all the extra reporting requirements compared to an LLC. They are meant for larger companies after all.
Yea, I thought so. That’s why I added “how the word is perceived”; when I hear the word “corporation” my first connotation is “evil”, but for the word “company” it can be literally anything
Too bad NATO troops are the mall cops of the modern military complex, or the blue shell rebellion thing could really have some wings. 🤌🏼
What…?
Also, how is that in any way related?
Blue. Helmets.
Also, blue shell + wings… 😶
FFS.
You’re thinking of the UN. They’re the ones that use blue helmets on peacekeeping missions. NATO detachment generally use whatever uniforms their home countries do.
Too true. Super stoned. I kinda fixated on the Apollo lookin’ regalia when I was typing. My bad. 🤪
All good, fellow meatbag. I have been known to indulge the devil’s lettuce myself.
Is that a Mario Kart joke?
Amongst other things
So…anyway.
It is believed the shooter had meant to target the National Football League, which also is based at 345 Park Ave.
Especially by nervous robber Barron execs, I’m sure. What could someone possibly want to target the NFL for?
And nothing of value was lost.
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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.
Yeah but the CEO was a women and therefore “woke”. /s
glass ceiling effect.
That should make the rw happy then, too.
my thot sand prayers go out to the pig that got murdered.
Pour one out for Luigi 2
Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers. Here’s to Luigi.
Reading headlines like this and thinking the next week of podcasts is going to be lit.
Definitely post if you hear of some!
Just keep your eyes on TrueAnon. They did a banger of an expose on Luigi Mangione as well as the Zizians
Sharts and bus fares.
Am supposed to feel bad about this?
If that exec fought harder for Work From Home maybe his work-life balance would still be in decent order
Don’t worry, they’ll just do that. For executives position only. You plebs can still rot in traffic
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