The Martin Shkreli trial roffles thread

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.

not gonna link to her acct but she's continuing to defend him and her actions on twitter smh

phenomenal

absolutely make sure to read to the end

yup

that is a dire fucking story

oof

Strange and sad article. I feel for her I guess but Christ.

She says she did this partly to correct false information—he didn’t increase the price on the EpiPen, for instance, and he is 5'10", not 5'7"

tbh somebody already told me to search shkreli on twitter before I even saw this thread had been updated so the ending of the article was spoiled for me

hence one word response above

truly we are so far beyond our simian ancestors

"I don’t know if everything he was saying was true, but maybe like 1 percent is, and that’s awesome on its own.”

Ze heart wants what ze heart wants! And if what ze heart wants is for someone to take a shit upon it, who are we to judge?

I just can't help but feel that her ex-husband is a very lucky man.

I’m sure investment management guy is ok

i feel bad for her tbh unless i missed some truly awful detail in the story. feel like she’s really caught in a web

"bloomberg tracked how many seconds its reporters filed stories ahead of their competitors"

if u wanna know why we are were we are

yeah, lo key the most depressing detail of that story

i felt bad for her but the story doesn't press her on some of the glaringly bad things that her beloved definitely did do, e.g. the price gauging

i feel bad for her tbh unless i missed some truly awful detail in the story. feel like she’s really caught in a web

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, December 21, 2020 7:34 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

while I do not share your sympathy, this was a very underdeveloped part of the story!

The thing where she keeps wrapping herself in webbing despite the umpteen red flags emblazoned with 'CAUTION, U ARE CAUGHT IN A HUGE FRICKIN WEB RN' make me a little less inclined to feel bad for her. She has to want to help herself but all she wants to help herself to is a sweet slice of that hot Shkreli lovin'.

Another underrated passage:

Smythe has only one photo of the two of them, propped next to her bed. Shkreli, his arm around Smythe, has a wide-open smile. “Doesn’t he look human there?” Smythe says, laughing.

Y'know, in the correct light, if you squint just right, he really does look like something that was birthed rather than summoned!

The thing where she keeps wrapping herself in webbing despite the umpteen red flags emblazoned with 'CAUTION, U ARE CAUGHT IN A HUGE FRICKIN WEB RN' make me a little less inclined to feel bad for her. She has to want to help herself but all she wants to help herself to is a sweet slice of that hot Shkreli lovin'.

yeah that is the main vibe i got

Yeah, that much is clear, but she's also had a year away from him to clear her head and has apparently chosen to lean in to the gaslighting instead.

That's sort of the enigma of it all. She's being manipulated ... by a universally reviled sleazy criminal repellent troll douchebag, not some infamous charmer. Even Stephen Miller has more supporters than this dude. It's pretty baffling.

If there's one thing I know about douchebags like this, they attract a certain special % of the population. Only the slightest manipulation necessary.

Number one thing I learned writing a book about fraudsters; they are horrible people and they cannot be trusted on even the simplest things.

— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) December 21, 2020

mfw I see the second @ in that tweet 🤭

We were talking a little bit about this kind of thing on the Friday night hang recently.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41cPMjJduxL.jpg

Probably posted upthread but worth a rescreen at any rate:
https://i.imgur.com/ectms6i.jpeg

How could she possibly have seen past the charms of the master manipulator? I mean after her husband, friends, professors, employer, colleagues all told her she was possibly being manipulated, how could she have seen it?

That’s really unnecessary and ignorant of how that kind of thing works.

I'm not sure why we're affecting a softer touch wrt the reporter manipulated by Shkreli than we do with the multitudes manipulated by, say, the current POTUS but okay

i would prefer to frame it like: i have a lot of sympathy for ppl who are indoctrinated into cults which are often run by ppl like shkreli

i would say both analogies aren't very appropriate tho. idk

the ending just made me sad