The Martin Shkreli trial roffles thread

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.

okidoke

i will say the worst way to become anti-incarceration is because you're in love with martin shkreli

now i am going to return to not thinking about these people

Good idea.

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

Shkreli heads (like those dumbass college kids in the story) and Trump faithful occupy a very similar territory in my head

see also online Musk stans.

Seems to me that this kind of behavior is best filed under Duly Noted and not thought about for too long. Or so I have heard.

pic.twitter.com/dyMmMFkoEL

— Bad COVID-19 Takes (@BadCOVID19Takes) December 21, 2020

Ah, so there's a new NEW piece.

https://www.elle.com/life-love/a35036400/christie-smythe-stephanie-clifford-martin-shkreli-story/

heh, maybe we’re the suckers. she’ll have a gofundme up by the end of the week

Basically this woman seems like someone I don’t want to be around but… she also hasn’t really done anything other than be a little bit of a(n arguably self-destructive) dick? I wouldn’t be surprised if she regrets this later but the only person in this scenario she’s currently hurting is herself and I kind of… don’t care?

This article was especially bizarre since it didn't mention that he's been engaged for the past year (to Maureen Lohry).

I also noticed Christie Smythe has redacted Maureen Lohry from images (e.g. Smythe's pinned tweet). It's so bizarre.

Wait what

Maureen Lohry and Shkreli dated after the arrest. They became engaged sometime after he started his sentence. Lohry has been controlling a lot of his assets (i.e. weird pharma scams), e.g. she's the current CEO of Prospero.

Trying to make Spinal Tap joke about The New New Originals.

The article also provided no evidence that Christie Smythe and Shkreli had anything other than the obvious journalist and source relationship (regardless of what Smythe thinks). This entire situation is bizarre and shady.