The Martin Shkreli trial roffles thread

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

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

At the risk of making gyac, who I like a lot, think less of me, I can't help finding lols at someone being manipulated by a face this punchable:

http://imgur.com/t/martin_shkreli/YeTcYK9

At least Manson had drugs and perhaps some animal magnetism. This is like being manipulated by Snidely Whiplash!

Fuck! I bet Shkreli could post an img.

photo fashion credits for that woman's pictures list her dress as being by "The Vampire's Wife" which is just...

Sometimes you just need an excuse to get out of a bad marriage.

It was a bit on the nose wasn’t it

Seriously, when they got to:

When Shkreli found out about this article, though, he stopped communicating with her. He didn’t want her telling her story, she says.

My immediate thought was, "oh, honey, he's got someone else."