💼 Careercow Martin Shkreli - Former Pharma Exec, Criminal, Impotent Rageaholic

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DragoonSierra said:
So he is likely to get off scott free for what he did?
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I don't know enough about the prosecution's case to know whether it's rock solid. It's just often tricky to prosecute this kind of thing and he's just such a weasel I could see him weaseling out of it somehow.
 
The only thing better than the drama he creates is the truckloads of impotent rage he incites everywhere he goes. It seems like everyone hates this guy. For a time, he was/is the King of All Trolls. I'm excited for round two of Facebook People Being Mad At Sassy Rich Guy.
 
So Martin Shkreli is the pharma industry equivalent of Hitler.
No one wants him, he is considered terrible for the rest of the industry and after poking the wrong people, even the greatest of enemies (Democrats vs Republicans) join together to see him burn.
It's true what they say: If you want to create allies, create a common enemy first.
 
hood LOLCOW said:
So Martin Shkreli is the pharma industry equivalent of Hitler.
No one wants him, he is considered terrible for the rest of the industry and after poking the wrong people, even the greatest of enemies (Democrats vs Republicans) join together to see him burn.
It's true what they say: If you want to create allies, create a common enemy first.
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See also: he's a smug dick who deserves the scrutiny and lonely life in his sparsely furnished apartment playing guitar to teenage girls on the Internet for hours on end.
 
Cybermorph said:
The only thing better than the drama he creates is the truckloads of impotent rage he incites everywhere he goes. It seems like everyone hates this guy. For a time, he was/is the King of All Trolls. I'm excited for round two of Facebook People Being Mad At Sassy Rich Guy.
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I remember Vice interviewed him and he mentioned he was a pro wrestling fan. In particular Demian Sandow who did the douchey intellectual schtick. Dude is the real life version of that and he does it beautifully.
 
He probably is, I can only imagine the tangled web of loans, refinances and compounded credit this guy's floating on top of right now, and his notoriety is such that it's impossible for him to do what over-leveraged people like him do when getting close to defaulting on just one of those that will push the whole house of cards over, start another scam and use the capital to satiate his creditors for a little longer....
 
Late, I know, but here's some context to the Sanders-related chimp out that I don't think was mentioned.

He donated money to Sanders because the perception at the time (still is, I guess among Sanders supporters) is that "Sanders can't be bought UNLIKE HITLERY KKKLINTON sperg spergity sperg", so Shkreli donated a bunch of money to Sanders to prove he could be bought. The Sanders camp donated it to a charity. Initially Shkreli gloated that since he hadn't returned the money to him, he had still been bought. Then he challenged Sanders to a debate on healthcare. Then he concerned trolled that he just might have to vote for a Republican if Sanders was going to treat him this way :'(. Then when he realized none of those things were making people as assblasted as he'd hoped, he pretended to chimp out and punch walls. It was a total ruse.

Pretty sure this wasn't mentioned either: He was also bffs with Geoff Rickly (former singer of the post-hardcore band Thursday) and was the silent partner/primary financeer behind Rickly's indie record label, Collect Records. When the initial shit about Shkreli raising prices on daraprim by 4000% or whatever happened, it was discovered that he was behind financing the label. Several bands on the label quit, more threatened to, and Rickly was dumbfounded that Shkreli was being an asshole (having previously seen him give tons of money to charity) but severed relations with him anyway to keep the label from imploding. It then turned out that without Shkreli's shekels, the label didn't have enough money to continue operating. IIRC, someone asked Shkreli about this whole debacle and his response was basically some variation of "lol".

Anyway, as most people are aware at this point, the dude is basically king troll and any chimping he does has to be taken with a huge grain of salt. He deletes tweets when certain trolling angles don't pan out, keeping only those that cause the most salt from the people reading it. He's 100% self aware. His persona is 50% comic book super villain and 50% a white version of those "Rich Nigga Shit" videos Soulja Boi used to do.

While he's definitely an asshole and also a criminal, I'm on the fence about him being a lolcow. Any milk from him is probably tainted by him being in on the joke. He's just a rich kid who likes to fuck with people and create chaos. I agree with whoever said he'd probably fit in well enough here. As the old saying goes, "There but for the grace of God, 40 million dollars and a desire to fuck with AIDS patients, go I.'
 
When he's sucking dick in the federal slammer he'll be claiming he's trolling the fuck out of those guys, too.
 
Someone should steal that Wu-Tang album. Especially if they buttrape Shkreli before lifting it.
 
*Asterisk* said:
Alan Dershowitz must've been busy.

Does this mean Sean Combs is now only the second most repulsive reptile this fucker's represented?
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Everyone deserves a competent defense attorney.

PTNR 2.0 said:
Late, I know, but here's some context to the Sanders-related chimp out that I don't think was mentioned.

He donated money to Sanders because the perception at the time (still is, I guess among Sanders supporters) is that "Sanders can't be bought UNLIKE HITLERY KKKLINTON sperg spergity sperg", so Shkreli donated a bunch of money to Sanders to prove he could be bought. The Sanders camp donated it to a charity. Initially Shkreli gloated that since he hadn't returned the money to him, he had still been bought. Then he challenged Sanders to a debate on healthcare. Then he concerned trolled that he just might have to vote for a Republican if Sanders was going to treat him this way :'(. Then when he realized none of those things were making people as assblasted as he'd hoped, he pretended to chimp out and punch walls. It was a total ruse.

Pretty sure this wasn't mentioned either: He was also bffs with Geoff Rickly (former singer of the post-hardcore band Thursday) and was the silent partner/primary financeer behind Rickly's indie record label, Collect Records. When the initial shit about Shkreli raising prices on daraprim by 4000% or whatever happened, it was discovered that he was behind financing the label. Several bands on the label quit, more threatened to, and Rickly was dumbfounded that Shkreli was being an asshole (having previously seen him give tons of money to charity) but severed relations with him anyway to keep the label from imploding. It then turned out that without Shkreli's shekels, the label didn't have enough money to continue operating. IIRC, someone asked Shkreli about this whole debacle and his response was basically some variation of "lol".

Anyway, as most people are aware at this point, the dude is basically king troll and any chimping he does has to be taken with a huge grain of salt. He deletes tweets when certain trolling angles don't pan out, keeping only those that cause the most salt from the people reading it. He's 100% self aware. His persona is 50% comic book super villain and 50% a white version of those "Rich Nigga Shit" videos Soulja Boi used to do.

While he's definitely an asshole and also a criminal, I'm on the fence about him being a lolcow. Any milk from him is probably tainted by him being in on the joke. He's just a rich kid who likes to fuck with people and create chaos. I agree with whoever said he'd probably fit in well enough here. As the old saying goes, "There but for the grace of God, 40 million dollars and a desire to fuck with AIDS patients, go I.'
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Doesnt mater if hes a troll or not. He has money and can cause legitimate harm to people.
 
DrChristianTroy said:
I remember Vice interviewed him and he mentioned he was a pro wrestling fan. In particular Demian Sandow who did the douchey intellectual schtick. Dude is the real life version of that and he does it beautifully.
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Well, then, he's having an even worse week, because the WWE let Damien Sandow go yesterday (and fuck them, too, Sandow's got great ring affect and is more good-spirited about taking on literally any gimmick than any other wrestler in the business). The only silver lining of his firing, really, is that this guy is probably super upset about it.
 
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