Public Enemy: quotes from the Martin Shkreli jury selection process

Re:Public Enemy: quotes from the Martin Shkreli jury selecti... by DeepRote on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:20AM (#15028156)

Disclaimer: I'm a huge fan of Shkreli. Great guy, excellent financial instincts, pharma wizard etc.

I'm surprised he didn't get assassinated for some of that stuff with Wu-Tang, especially in NY. I know I've been waiting a new full-featured Wu-tang album for a LOOOONG time, and I know a lot of new yorkers were too. Multiply that anger by several million people and media deception, it shocks me that he's still around.

The lesson I've learned about all this is the value in nobody knowing your name. Shkreli was fucked over HARD by the media, he's really just a cool guy playing the game, and they spin him as this terrible evil mastermind.

He used to stream all the time, you couldn't watch him for more than five minutes before falling in love with him. He's a man of the people in the truest sense. More than anyone I've ever met.

I hope he finds a way through all this.

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Re:Public Enemy: quotes from the Martin Shkreli jury selecti... by Grazester on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:25AM (#15028201)

This should be a lesson for him. To random people on the internet fascinated by his trolling then he would appear cool. When you go in front of congress(in the real world) and act the same way you dont appear as charming.

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Re:Public Enemy: quotes from the Martin Shkreli jury selecti... by vim_wannabe on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @01:36PM (#15029445)

My favorite congressional hearing has to be Tim Cook and Apple tax policy. It basically turned into an Apple promo with the help of him and the questioners.

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Re:Public Enemy: quotes from the Martin Shkreli jury selecti... by and0 on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:44AM (#15028389)

I don't follow Shkreli closely but him sexually harassing journalist Lauren Duca (he still continues to do this: "when I'm acquitted, I'm going to fuck Lauren Duca") makes him very much not a "man of the people in the truest sense".

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Re:Public Enemy: quotes from the Martin Shkreli jury selecti... by Thorncorona on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:57AM (#15028506)

He's a troll. Inflammatory speech is what he does.

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Re:Public Enemy: quotes from the Martin Shkreli jury selecti... by DeepRote on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:49AM (#15028433)

What's not manly about that? I'd fuck Lauren too. Granted, I might not tweet it out quite like that, but yeah.

You don't get to determine morality based off someone's speech, only off their actions.

Until they actually fuck, it's that big of a deal. People that complain about mean things online were recently attacking people with dangerous weapons the other day. I have become suspicious of most people who want to gatekeep other people, it's usually a signal that they have no respect for the concept of personal property and human rights.

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Re:Public Enemy: quotes from the Martin Shkreli jury selecti... by dang on Thursday August 17, 2017 @02:04PM (#15039203)

We've banned this account for serial trolling. Would you please stop creating accounts to break the site guidelines with?

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Re:Public Enemy: quotes from the Martin Shkreli jury selecti... by and0 on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @12:39PM (#15028911)

Speech is an action, I'm not sure why that isn't obvious.

Your denial of it, and the weird generalizations you're making, make me think you're not actually open to rethinking any of this. Oh well.

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