Fuck her. She kills people everyday. REITs cause home scarcity and rent increases that drive homelessness and poverty.
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
I don't think that decent part of the public you talk about, I don't think they actually exist. I think it's like the mythical centrist voters who are waiting for the perfect centrist candidate, that don't quite exist.
Many people have made the argument that you made, that violence doesn't solve problems, and that's true as long as we ignore all of human history.
There are a ton of people like that, but they're mostly found on real life, facebook and other similar social medias and not lemmy or reddit or twitter - those are terminally online echochambers, but I've seen one or two people going "thoughts and prayers" or "all violence bad".
Also, my position is more complex than "violence can't solve problems" - it can, but it must be organized, with clear goals in mind and people already behind and actively part of the cause.
If you just go in lone wolf style like Luigi or something and gun down a CEO, you expect for the public to see this, get inspired to take up arms of their own and start Years of Lead where rich people are fearing for their lives and suddenly we have a revolution like in some sort of Hollywood movie, but that's not what happens in reality.
Instead, media tries to demonize the shooter by saying how good the victim was and how their family is grieving (happening right now) to tug on heart strings which will at least turn some people against them, the shooter being made example of in court which essentially throws their life in the bin, the CEO being replaced by someone else in a week's time and people forgetting about all of this after news cycle moves on. I genuinely only see Luigi mentioned on lemmy here given how he's the liberal larp darling here, and nowhere else I visit or IRL.
Also, if we're talking history here, then here's a fun factoid - some Anarchist burnt down Reichstag in opposition to Hitler and his Nazi party, but this fire was later used by Hitler to expand his powers, suppress civil liberties and was pivotal in establishment of Nazi Germany. Of course, this is only something to think about with more brutal regimes, but nothing like that will probably come out of this shooting.
A good example of organized violence is probably that of the Bolsheviks pre-Russian revolutions - they had bank robberies, political assassinations that were used to fund the revolutionary underground and destabilize the regime, and not merely some bouts of individualized violence.
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.
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.
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.
Absolutely. That's why seeing love for him dominating a dirtbag's death notice was fantastic.
Luigi 1:7
Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.
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.
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.
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)
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.
That's because everyone hates hedge funds when you describe what they do. If you just say a "real estate investment group" a lot of people will still get it, so they say nothing in the hopes that your eyes glaze over and you don't think any more about it.
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.
I'm glad our "mental health problem" is finally at least putting the crosshairs in the direction of people that actually hurt others.
I really hope this is the new Meta. Anything to protect our schools.
Well deserved
~~Blackrock~~ Blackstone is a fucking MASSIVE corporate residential landlord.
They are not a good company. They are an evil company, for that fact alone.
So she was CEO of a company that owns 61,000 single family homes as rental properties that has been investigated multiple times for how they treat their tenants. They also own over 22,000 apartments.
She made her money running a company that removes 61,000 homes from the market as available for normal people to buy as their primary home.
EDIT: want to be clear that she didn't deserve to die for the work she did, just that she wasn't just some strong woman who made it in business by working hard.
Wikipedia's controversies section summarizes a few: owns Motel 6 and gave info to ICE, bought Ancestry.com stake including generic data, owns a slaughterhouse using child labor.
I had the displeasure of renting from them once. They screwed my young family coming and going, actively lied to us and misled us into making decisions that benefited them and squeezed us for every penny we had when we were just trying to get a footing in this world, and when we had enough and tried to fight back they responded by destroying my credit and making it impossible to rent elsewhere.
So you may say she didn't deserve to die for her evil deeds, but I'm not so sure.
About Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, the deceased executive's boss:
In fact, Reuters recently found that Schwarzman is Wall Street’s largest political contributor in the United States, shelling out more than $27 million to campaign committees, Donald Trump, and other politicians. The billionaire is clearly attempting to shape American politics and policymaking to his favor. Schwarzman has already contributed $4.4 million to Trump’s campaign or political committees connected to Trump, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
People don't deserve to be murdered, but if you fuck with too many people for too long, they will murder you.
I'm going to respectfully disagree with your edit.
Just to be clear, respectfully to you, not the dead corpo slumlord CEO lady.
Thoughts and prayers
Phew! I was worried it might have been an innocent victim.
BlackRock and BlackStone are two separate companies people.
Both are evil, but very differently
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
sometimes bad things happen to bad people 🥹
Ohhhh noooooooo
He was targeting the NFL? Yeah, because the NFL is a regular contributor to ruining the lives of entire generations.
Of course he was targeting the NFL. If he was targeting Blackstone, the news would have to talk about who Blackstone is.
And nothing of value was lost.
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.”
And she was CEO of that.
I will bet you a dollar that she would speak at charity dinners talking about how her company creates safe living spaces for low income women or some shit. She would say anything to spin the fact that she made the world a worse place for hundreds of thousands of people.
Cool.
Nothing changes until more of this trash is scared to leave their homes.
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