Come on y'all. Stop it.

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.

Reasons matter.
I mean, you're not going to want to scratch to hard at Luigi Mangione. He's a few shades shy of a Zizian, himself. Luigi was deep in with the Silicon Valley Longtermists and a big fan of techno-libertarianism.
That doesn't mean Brian Thompson didn't deserve to have his skull ventilated. It just means you aren't going to want to turn the shooter into a Messiah figure.
- I think the tech bros are just trying to claim him as their own. They can't have him. I think Luigi was mostly about volunteering at old folks homes and rehabilitating dogs rescued from fighting rings and puppy mills.
- You're literally doing what I just described.

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 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.
You shoot enough capitalists tho...
- You're talking about tens of millions of people.
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.
- This has to be the most brain dead propaganda take on the internet right now. Yeah he totally didn’t mean to kill who he killed. It was all a happy accident
You know, killing the idea of a comfortable life is a pointless idea. Would you give up a delicious cake and tea just to raise the workers' wages? There is no way to defeat capitalism while people are still alive this is my opinion.
- Incorrect. Capitalism is failing in front of your eyes, you’re just not educated enough to know what it looks like.
- People are able to tighten up the belt if they believe in the cause. And you can even rewind the clock on the capitalist system to see that people were contributing more and taking less for themselves.
  Erosion of social structure was helped a LOT by targeted propaganda. Some of which is influencing your own thought process.
  Think about it.

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.”

https://pestakeholder.org/news/pesp-statement-on-department-of-justice-action-against-private-equity-landlord-blackstone-for-alleged-rental-price-fixing-scheme/

Respect.

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

to be fair your can’t definitively diagnose CTE without completely tearing apart someone’s brain
- Sometimes. The original discovery by Dr. Omalu involved post mortem samples but MRI will sometimes show evidence of atrophy in living brains when victims show symptoms obvious enough to arouse suspicion and bully insurance companies into paying for the deserved healthcare.
  Fun Fact: after exposing the NFL's cover-up of CTE he also exposed the murder of Stephon Clark by Sacramento PD.

Damn, he did a Donald Glover IRL.

Metal.

It's pretty rare for CTE to have serious effects when you're that young, handsome, and brave.

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.

Still better than doing it in a school or club tho.
I don't know why, but this sentence gave me a chuckle
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.
- doesnt deservered to be murdered, but no ones going to cry over a POS
- Yeah, wouldn't surprise me if the guy got evicted by them or something like that.
- Wait there's a company called "Blackstone" as well as one called "Blackrock", and both buy up real estate?
- Oh thank God. I thought it was the Blackstone that makes grill tops. I kept wondering what they did wrong.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
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.
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 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
One of life’s happy little accidents
- Maybe schools in America need to start getting CEOs to come and do talks there for the kids. Then maybe there can be considerably more happy little accidents out of horrific events that have no solution.
almost certainly he intended to go after the NFL people

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"?

So inconsiderate! That CEO had a bright future ahead of him.
- How could someone do this. The line was going up!
- Her
- And I can't believe he shot that new intern. The other CEOs and managers were looking forward to humiliating and mentally torturing them! The evening's entertainment was ruined!

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.

Thoughts and prayers are for the poors. This guy killed rich people. Mark my words, action will be taken.
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.

He took the wrong elevator. He was looking for the NFL offices as he blamed them for his CTE. Only one person he shot worked for the NFL.

That's what the news decided to start saying after they found out he got a Blackstone CEO anyways.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a condition that may result from head injuries, especially in athletes of contact sports like boxing or football. The condition slowly damages parts of the brain and may cause trouble with memory, other thinking skills, behavior, personality, speech or balance.
So, when the NFL encourages an unsafe sport that damages the brains of their members to the point that they can no longer find the correct elevator to the floor of the NFL, that's not the NFL's fault? They're out there encouraging people to concuss themselves stupid every single day. "It's safe!". No, it isn't. It's dangerous, and nobody gives a shit about the player's brain damage.
I'm glad to see the players fighting back. Maybe it'll spark yet another discussion about football players and boxers not having enough protection for their sport.
"Not enough protection, we need better equipment"
"So, you want a higher salary, right? Because we want to see blood and injuries. If you don't want to do it, we'll find someone else willing to lobotomize themselves for a way out of crushing poverty. Why do people think the NFL is evil?"
- Not just encourage but actively suppress research into
- I know it's probably a coincidence, but it feels very on brand for USA that instead of playing football like the rest of the world, USA decided to replace football with a game where you carry an egg in your hands and give each other brain damage.
Yeah, the media is not suppressing some working class hero story here. It's just a man who lost his marbles.
- I mean, this is still pretty Luigi. A man striking out an evil corporation violently. I wouldn't put the NFL's crimes at the same level as UHC's. But they still churn through and destroy people like the shooter. It's ultimately the same form of anti-corporate vigilantism.
I have a bridge to sell you
- Oo, I've always wanted one of those! Does it go to terabithia??

When are cops and ceos gonna stop celebrating the killing of the working class?…. Just playing devils advocate here.

*celebrating and actively facilitating

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.
and that dude also killed 3 innocent people
Edit: I stand corrected.
- One was a cop playing security guard for the oligarchy so two relatively uninvolved collaborators at best.
  I wonder why the news isn't yelling about how sweet, uninvolved, and innocent those two were?

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.

Rent-a-cop could have been guarding a school and died saving children. Instead he died guarding an evil building filled with soulless ghouls. No sympathy.
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 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.
- Hardly the first victim of TBI. The difference is him targeting a crowd of CEOs rather than lashing out at a family member or loved one.

~~He shot a Blackstone CEO, yet when I search for him the media reports on his football career as a potential reason?~~

~~What the hell? America is not in a position where the assassination of CEOs needs to be explained. The question is how some of them can still show their faces in public.~~

Edit: See comments below. I'm dumb and/or jumping to conclusions too quickly.

You’d be right if he only shot a Blackstrone CEO. But apparently he shot 4 random people, one of them turned out to be a Blackstone CEO. That’s different.
- At first I only read that it was a building housing finance institutions, so I figured he had probably just snapped and figured he'd attack the world of finance. So crazy, but driven by the state of everything rather than by some random sports career.
  I didn't see that it also housed the NFL. Makes the Football story a lot more plausible. So the CEO might indeed just have been a random bystander like anyone else at the scene.
  In either case it's obviously not a defendable of constructive thing to do, I just speculated that maybe there's bigger things in America to lose your mind over than football. Maybe I was wrong.
  In either case it's a reflection of the mental health crisis.

Do we have to, though?

We sure don’t. Leave that forced and highly toxic false positivity bullshit to the corporates (fuck reddit) and tell the truth here.
Whether by accident or not, at least one scumbag died.
Am I honestly happy about it? Not really.
Happy would be if I heard instead the ceo talked to the board and they had a change of heart and were, idk, gifting all their properties to their current residents.
And I’m not literally glad someone died. Not really. I just wish they weren’t such pieces of shit to begin with.
I hope the CTE guy gets help but to my very limited knowledge and barely qualified as a layperson understanding, that’s not a thing.
- the sub is afraid of being suspended thats why. also the shooter was originally targeting the ceo, she just happen to be collateral. The MSMs are framing it as a "mass shooter" to avoid another LUIGI situation(the arrests, public knowledge)
- The CTE guy killed himself... and no if he actually had CTE (Its impossible to definitively diagnose while you are still alive) he was basically doomed. There are only really treatments to slow progression.
- He doesn't have CTE anymore!

how bout we don't not stop

This isn’t even close to the same thing

I didn't read anything about a Blackstone CEO being shot...

This is disinformation and is glorifying a murderer. I don't care who the intended target was. You don't kill other innocent people over it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/blackstone-real-estate-executive-wesley-lepatner-killed-gunman-345-park-2025-7?op=1
- Gotta be honest I don't give a single fuck about a Blackstone executive that was in charge of real estate specifically.
  Blackstone is evil in general, but its real estate division is even higher up the scumbag charts.
  They're literally part of the ever-worsening homelessness crisis.
  Some of the deaths here are a damned shame though, and the whole story of it is basically a top to bottom American tragedy.
  Edit: Only slightly relatedly, Ashli Babbit's story is similarly top to bottom an American tragedy viewed from a different angle. The lady spent most of her life falling for scams and getting fleeced and then got killed (justifiably though it was) because she fell for one of the country's biggest scams.
- Wow they're really trying to imply misogyny there.