• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    108
    ·
    7 months ago

    First Rick Moranis, and now Steve Buscemi? This is so sad.

    I wonder how often this must happen to non-famous people that don’t make the news too.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      27
      ·
      7 months ago

      Rick Moranis hasn’t been famous in decades. And given that he was attacked from behind, its unlikely the attacker knew him. Just some guy lashing out randomly for who even knows what reason.

      I wonder how often this must happen to non-famous people that don’t make the news too.

      NYC has one of the highest police budget’s per-capita in the world and Manhattan is one of the most densely surveilled places in the country. I have to assume if cops are too busy crushing candy on their phones, this sort of thing is regular and they don’t give a shit.

        • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          7 months ago

          Well the New York City metropolitan area has nearly the same population as the nation of Australia so it’s not entirely surprising. NYC alone is approaching 1/3rd of Australia’s population and the US is damn near a police state so yeah

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    59
    ·
    7 months ago

    As I understand, Mr Buscemi found himself on 9/11 day near his old fire station, and helped out his old crew tirelessly.

    I don’t need that to be true. Steve Buscemi is a nice guy and doesn’t deserve that shit.

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    Humanity needs some major help. Violence like this is never okay. I hope the authorities are able to figure out who did it, catch them, and get them the help they very much need.

    Edit: Clarified with different languages since some of my original word choices carried unintended meaning.

    • Neato@ttrpg.network
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      35
      ·
      7 months ago

      What exactly is this comment suggesting? It seems like a coward’s way to call for violence using ambiguous but still incendiary language.

      • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        Violence has been committed and I hope the perpetrator is able to be caught and punished. Violence like this isn’t okay.

        In a general sense, I hope for more out of humanity’s future and hope this kind of behavior is eventually selected out, both naturally and intentionally. (I’m currently reading a book about selection, which is where my mind was at when posting). Humans have come a long way in their thousands upon thousands of years of history. That’s especially the case more recently. We have a long way to go though and we can do better now and today.

        Catch the perpetrator, punish them (this is a loaded idea though), and–good fortune willing–rehabilitate and nurture something greater in them (which is the very best thing to do). Failing that, separate them from the rest of us so that further harm is mitigated. We don’t need that shit. Our penal systems are broken and people don’t get the help they always need, but we must continue trying to make things better for all of our sakes.

        Yours Truly, The seeming coward ironically calling for non-violence

        P. S. A simple “could you elaborate on what you mean” might have come across better.

        • Neato@ttrpg.network
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          11
          ·
          7 months ago

          P. S. A simple “could you elaborate on what you mean” might have come across better.

          pruning

          “they”

          Follow your own advice. Your language was needlessly loaded. I’ve seen plenty of comments like that that know exactly what they’re doing.

          • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            edit-2
            7 months ago

            “They” meant whoever the vague authority is when people often use they. I guess the NYPD in this case, but it’s often hard to cheer for cops to do the right thing when I read the news these days. You can believe I meant something more, like vigilantes (I’m guessing?), but that isn’t okay either. It’s against my principles.

            (Although I have to admit that I root for Batman in spite of my belief that vigilantism isn’t the way. Too many ways for it to go wrong. The State often can’t get it right itself and it’s them we entrust.)

            “Prune” wasn’t a great choice of word I suppose. The intent to express a desire for this kind of behavior to be removed from the rest of us. There are a lot of ways to achieve that and I presume you think I meant violently, which is quite the opposite of what I would want. Again, strong principle of nonviolence.

            English, and language in general, is a funny thing. I’m still getting the hang of it. I’ve edited my original comment to reflect my intent with different words.

            What happened to Steve was not okay. It can’t be tolerated. And I hope the authorities can somehow catch them and get them the help they need while protecting everyone else from this kind of violence. I’ve heard of these random attacks more often and it’s not okay, it’s not funny, and it needs to stop.

  • FiniteLooper@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    7 months ago

    Not that there’s a good reason for ever doing this, but why did this person punch him at all?

  • stanka@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    7 months ago

    Maybe if the cops could just stop and frisk anyone on the street anytime they feel like it, everything would be ok?

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      edit-2
      7 months ago

      The correlation between the two was surely coincidental. It’s tough to choose that as the cost of getting the other.

      • stanka@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        7 months ago

        To be clear, my view is that “stop and frisk” is a license that a racist system sought to legitimize their racist actions.

        I guess my sarcasm didnt come through in my post, but does anyone really think that “random” stop and frisk would have stopped this attack?

        • Sidhean@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          7 months ago

          Some people are unironically that batshit, though.

          We really out here like “Maybe if there were more police violence this wouldn’t have happened” and still need a ‘/s’ lmao