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Re:Martin Shkreli May Spend 20 Years in Prison by where_do_i_live on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:18PM (#16485834)
you know... he's going to jail for none of the reasons you provided, and instead for plain old fraud.

Fraud sounds like a perfectly normal thing to go to jail for.

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Re:Martin Shkreli May Spend 20 Years in Prison by savanaly on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:43PM (#16486081)
Yeah I don't think I emphasized quite enough that my post was against Shkreli-bashing, not objecting to him going to jail for fraud.
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Re:Martin Shkreli May Spend 20 Years in Prison by where_do_i_live on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:16PM (#16487029)
Most people are simply applying social pressure against norm breaking anyways - often times they do not literally mean that he should go to jail - it is simply how people talk about offensive behavior in general.

I'm happy to bash him as well, but I still think the actual jail time should be on legal not social law breaking. Everyone hates someone that is a douchebag, and this guy embraces it making him a perfect target.

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