This is a travesty, man!
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.
Often out of his element, though.
Shut the fuck up Donnie
Stay safe out there.
Who would attack a 911 hero?
The american healthcare system
And Republicans.
Fuckin hell, too true. Have a lemon 🍋
What’s with the lemon?
Take it 🍋
Oh 🍋 thanks
Holy fuck
Odds are it was truly random and the guy didn’t recognize that he was assaulting a celebrity.
Humanity needs some pruning sake of the whole. I hope “they” manage to catch this imbecile. People like this need serious help.
What exactly is this comment suggesting? It seems like a coward’s way to call for violence using ambiguous but still incendiary language.
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.
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.
“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.
Steve is a fucking treasure.
I guess he was out of his element…
My bad, I was smacked on glue and didn’t know it was Steve. Live and learn, am I right
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.
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.
I learned today that the NYPD is as large as the entire Australian military.
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
Thankfully the peasants don’t matter
Mr. Pink. Eye.
Geeze whose gonna be next, Dolly Parton?
I hope it wasn’t Phil Leotardo
Finally getting his revenge for what the animal Blundetto did to his kid brother Billy.
He’s dead IRL too.
Maybe if the cops could just stop and frisk anyone on the street anytime they feel like it, everything would be ok?
The correlation between the two was surely coincidental. It’s tough to choose that as the cost of getting the other.
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?
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
Not that there’s a good reason for ever doing this, but why did this person punch him at all?
Probably mental illness.
washes hands
Not all that unusual to see a guy walking some corner of town, ranting to himself in an agitated state. Social isolation, anxiety, fear, and frustration turning people into human-shaped time bombs just waiting to go off.
with an eye injury
How could they tell?
