The Martin Shkreli trial roffles thread

Lol as if I didn’t pick up on your sarcasm. there’s a scrim of real anger there that ive seen elsewhere & itt that is baffling and very dumb

The actions of unfettered capitalists are often directly at odds with the conduct required to perpetuate society qua society. Thousands of years ago, our hunter-gatherer ancestors would have shunned or banished or beaten to death any upstart who threatened the integrity of their society by flagrantly disregarding their shared values while enjoying the benefits conferred by that society. Things have changed considerably, obvs, but I think many people still have an inherent and understandable repulsion towards those who seek only to exploit their own society without even the illusory courtesy of pretending to care about the world outside themselves. It's an enduring testament to our notions of civility that we generally restrict ourselves to cartoonish reveries and a faith in justice in lieu of forming a mob and driving out the cancerous elements ourselves.

heh

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i normally see that screed used against social welfare recipients but carry on sure

otm

bloodlust in general nagl imo

There's probably an argument to be made that Shkreli actually met the business end of justice in part because he's the rare one-percenter who's shitty at redirecting righteous anger onto some demonized underclass, but it's a saturday night and watching movies is funner than making arguments.

Guys, seriously, don't know where the 'bloodlust' thing even came from itt. I cheered for Shkreli's imprisonment and I made what I thought were obviously ridiculous propositions for his banishment and his ejection into space. Even in the latter case, I'd argue in favor of giving him a lifetime supply of canned goods and a pot to piss in.

look on a board that called for #malegenocide yesterday i dont even know what to believe anymore

imagining the last scene of good bad ugly itt ever since its good

hey flappy and frogbs, have you known anyone who's died from AIDS?

yes

Thousands of years ago, our hunter-gatherer ancestors would have shunned or banished or beaten to death any upstart who threatened the integrity of their society by flagrantly disregarding their shared values while enjoying the benefits conferred by that society.

yeah we also used to hang people publicly times change

good to see this fool go down but obv there are thousands just like him that aren't as blatant/public about it specifically for public justice fantasies OL hinted at and they will get away with it just like they always have bc public bloodlust has been satiated through this jackass sacrifice

hyperbole doesn’t work very well in the middle of what people think is reasoned discourse

I vote each ilx thread gets a big switch at the top and you can view the hyperbolic posts or the debate

Probably just easier to killfile me tbh.

the third setting on the switch turns on the electric chair

Old Lunch should just change his name to New Bloodlust

Best not to look at UK political threads then, it's guillotines this, gulags that...

have a hunch about active UK political hyperbolist Old Tea

no point in prosecuting one criminal as long as a single other worse criminal gets away with things

yes

if you controlled the price of a drug that kept them alive, would you have raised the price of it by $636.50 a pill, because this was a thing that you could do? when it had already cost 75x more per pill in the US than in Australia, before you raised the price?

sorry in advance to Tombot if it's uncool to think it hurts people here to pay 4,167% more for a medicine than elsewhere

Best not to look at UK political threads then, it's guillotines this, gulags that...

the fuckin worst

its all rhyming slang lads

LOL at anything in the universe being worse than ILX US politics threads tbh.

ILM music threads

Not even those.

Thanking u all for picking up the hyperbole torch in my absence, it's touching really.

(j/k, US politics threads the worst thing to happen since the invention of written language.)

at least US ILX have the hilarious Chapo Trap House phenomena. I mean cumtown, the R word chucked about like in the old days, so edgy + viscerally funny etc...not so many laughs on Uk politics thread I will admit.

no point in prosecuting one criminal as long as a single other worse criminal gets away with things

yes

if you controlled the price of a drug that kept them alive, would you have raised the price of it by $636.50 a pill, because this was a thing that you could do? when it had already cost 75x more per pill in the US than in Australia, before you raised the price?

― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Sunday, March 11, 2018 6:32 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry in advance to Tombot if it's uncool to think it hurts people here to pay 4,167% more for a medicine than elsewhere

― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Sunday, March 11, 2018 6:35 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i never said MK wasn't a scumbag, just that orgiastic celebration over his downfall is silly

*MS

I don't understand this hyperbolic & strawman-ish rhetoric, hyper-sexual & cartoonish. That's Shkreli's default - why copy?

Daraprim is still $750 a pill. Does anyone actually pay that price? Is it actually prescribed with any regularity anymore?

I assume it's still prescribed since it doesn't have any competitors as far as I know. I was looking around yesterday trying to find some details on how the price increase impacted actual users. It's hard to find confirmation of how much anyone's paying out of pocket for it. Supposedly, Turing provides free drugs for uninsured people and assists with copays so that no one's paying more than $10 per tablet.

At the very least, the price increase impacted users by adding an additional stress about whether they'd be able to access the drug. e.g.

This fall, three years since my last neurosurgery, my shunt suddenly failed. I once again found myself in the ER. This time, I was more nervous than usual. What if the hospital didn’t have Daraprim because of the recent price hike? How much co-insurance would I have to pay for Daraprim? Would I be able to get my prescription filled for my post-operative course of Daraprim? None of these questions should have been running through my head at a time when I was rapidly losing cognitive and motor function.

The possibility of an ACA repeal must also be a huge worry for people relying on Daraprim.

it also limits where they can get the drug, which is now only available through a single dispensing pharmacy

and while the consumer isn't paying the $750/pill themselves, the insurance companies are....I'm sure they then pass the cost along to their customers somehow

my only two posts in this thread are a joke about armie hammer having a brand name for a name, and this

Sentence this pig fucker to twenty to life

― El Tomboto, Friday, August 4, 2017 2:49 PM (seven months ago)

so with regards to sic and his dearest loved ones, well, I guess I hope they all die of a readily preventable illness

I don't understand this hyperbolic & strawman-ish rhetoric, hyper-sexual & cartoonish. That's Shkreli's default - why copy?

― Ape Wipes (Old Lunch), Sunday, March 11, 2018 11:11 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

martin shkreli is anything but sexy

iirc there are occasionally other threads on which you get lightly cranky about ppl worrying that some things in America are damaging to the populace

I’m fairly certain my position on our healthcare system has been consistent but “whatevs”

i saw Garbage Pail Kids at age 7 and liked it, hopefully nobody will judge my cinematic tastes due to that

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bureau-of-prisons-opens-new-investigation-into-martin-shkreli-11552069443

Paul Manafort must be a role model

God help me, I enjoy reading Shkreli’s prison blog. I think being locked up has somehow made him more likable.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/17/857612249/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-denied-release-from-prison-to-research-coronavirus-cur

I miss his blog.

https://www.elle.com/life-love/amp35021224/martin-shkreli-christie-smythe-pharma-bro-journalist/?__twitter_impression=true

glad these two awful people have each other

oh the end is even better!

During the trial, she visited his apartment and listened to the Wu-Tang album—“for research,” she says.