The Martin Shkreli trial roffles thread

"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."

She seems like a very bad person so I'm glad this is happening to her.

yeah other than taking her younger siblings to McDonald’s instead of church I don’t find her very sympathetic

I'm not saying she should be cast out of society but she's a well-educated person who seems to be aggressively pursuing some 'most egregiously-bad decisions' world record. Everyone seems eager to tell her so. Even (spoilers?) Shkreli himself m/l seems to be alluding to the same in Dickhole-ese. It's not even an 'aw, crap, I've somehow wound up married to Martin' sitch she can't easily extract herself from. She is not in direct contact with or legally bound to him in any way. She may have trashed her marriage and her job but she hasn't crossed some line where her reputation is unsalvageable. As I said before, her perspective is out of whack and she clearly needs help, but she has to want it. 'That's sweet' doesn't indicate to me that she wants it.

I didn't think anything in the article was funny

She seems like a very bad person so I'm glad this is happening to her.

― Fetchboy, Monday, December 21, 2020 12:04 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i keep not being able to see this, should i read her twitter feed

she seems awfully normal and boring until she meets shkreli in that story

well-educated and smart ppl fall for this shit all the time

from finance bro to pharma bro

I can’t lie I chuckled at he’s aCsHuAlLy 5’10”!!!1

the air being perfumed with chicken wings for their first kiss is such a perfect detail that i did lol

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

My first thought was he was working on his own book/movie/concept album pitch and wanted to keep the details exclusive.

5'10" = king of the manlets

im a wee lad maybe 5’9” myself so like hey I get it but it’s just so funny how important it was for this lunatic to let the world know that her sociopath jailbird boyfriend is definitely NOT 5’7”

this was boring

Brad otm.

will never not feel good about bourgeois trash getting their comeuppance. let us have this in 2020

im a wee lad maybe 5’9” myself so like hey I get it but it’s just so funny how important it was for this lunatic to let the world know that her sociopath jailbird boyfriend is definitely NOT 5’7”

― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Monday, December 21, 2020 1:26 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'm guessing she insisted on correcting this point because it is a huge priority for him

i also don't know if it's going too far to insist you should be careful using the word "lunatic" to describe someone especially a woman

sorry to infringe on the good vibes

After that, “he kept toying with me for a while,” Smythe says. He would dangle an on-the-record interview and then grant one to one of her competitors.... Through the summer, Shkreli kept up his game of cat and mouse, offering Smythe tantalizing hints about evidence, then ghosting her for weeks over some perceived offense.

to me, this is textbook, but i forgot if it happens to a certain kind of person it's righteous class war

Let’s just say the reaction I got here for even suggesting this didn’t exactly lend itself to me deciding to spend time itt explaining it, but you’re a better person than me. As long as people can call a woman a “lunatic” (great look on a board with a dwindling population of female posters, can’t think why women feel so unwelcome) without stopping to think about it for two seconds, why ruin their fun?

She cares more about feeling like "a political wife" and holding court with a bunch of princeton econ sociopaths than the very real evil Shkreli smugly and unapologetically committed. That's the "certain kind of person" she is.