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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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        Hitler deserved to be murdered before he offed himself.

        If you agree with the above, all that’s being discussed is degree of horribleness.

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          I disagree. Murdering Hitler would have been a necessity to prevent greater evil. An acceptable trade-off. But he didn’t deserve to be murdered. He - as well as the CEO in this post - deserved to be tried & put in jail forever. When chances of that happening are slim, well… Trade-off time…

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            Arguably, taking off on this tangent, murdering Hitler might have very well pumped the brakes on the Holocaust. Late-war letters and memos from German High Command mention that part of the issues they were having with manpower and materiel was due to Hitler’s insistence on running the camps, which was a serious drain on manpower and logistics.

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                There is considerable historical evidence, both written and anecdotal, from Nazi Party and OKW staff that with Hitler out of the way, the German leadership would have sued for peace immediately with the Western Allies and frame their necessity for continued existence to serve as a bulwark against Russian Bolshevism.

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                  the German leadership would have sued for peace immediately with the Western Allies (*) in 1944, when most casualties and atrocities had already happened, and the war was lost anyways. Like Operation Valkyrie wasn’t put into place until July 1944… They were perfectly fine with the atrocities until the war tide turned.

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        People don’t deserve to be murdered

        I don’t think I agree with such a blanket statement. I don’t know exactly how to define where the line should be but I have no problem saying that there are definitely people alive who don’t deserve to be.

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          Perhaps the caveat should be:

          People don’t deserve to be murdered without a trial and a jury of their peers.

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        When you’re interfering with millions of people’s lives and livelihoods you get exactly what you deserve. Stay in your lane rich fucks. Enjoy your wealth and just leave us alone, fuck off to an island or whatever.

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        they dont deserved to be murdered, but people arnt going to lose sleep for pos like the blackstone ceo. i wonder if they donate to dems to, im betting some of them to, if they are solely gop donors, good riddance.

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      I’m going to respectfully disagree with your edit.

      Just to be clear, respectfully to you, not the dead corpo slumlord CEO lady.

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      It’s interesting. When does a person deserve to die? Hitler obviously did, Netanyahu definitely does, not at all sad about the guy Luigi killed… How many lives do you have to ruin in order to deserve it?

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      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.

      vs

      EDIT: want to be clear that she didn’t deserve to die for the work she did,

      What would Spok say?

      “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”

      61,000 homes x bare minimum 2.6 avg household size = 158,600.

      Homelessness rate in the US is now at least 3% of the total population.

      158,600 x 0.03 = 4,758.

      Homelessness is an extremely dangerous, life-threatening, often fatal condition.

      In summary, nah, she absolutely deserved to die for the work she did, regardless of whatever the actual specifics of this incident are.

      1 life vs almost 5k likely deaths?

      This math ain’t as hard as people seem to think.

      If she ran a company that knowingly, intentionally, poisoned that many people’s food or water, distributed that many HIV contaminated needles, sold that many defective airbags or brakepads…

      …if the process wasn’t so abstracted with so many steps, the moral judgement would be a lot easier for a lot more people to make.

      Keep in mind: Her job was to literally operate and maintain the abstraction.

      I have negative pity for this exploitative cancer formely emobodied in the form of a living human being.