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Sept. 29, 2015 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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This Week in Stupid (27⧸09⧸2015)
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Hello and welcome to a very late this week in Stupid for the 27th of September 2015.
This week's episode was so late because I was in Deepest Darkest Wales, handcrafting a replica of a Bronze Age short sword found in an Irish peat bog.
It came out magnificently and if you're interested in knowing how it was done you can click on the link on the screen and it will take you to a video that I have made doing it as the people who are running the course very graciously allowed me to film it.
It was an amazing experience and I am so pleased with the end result.
The whole weekend was absolutely wonderful and if you ever get the opportunity I strongly advise you to take it.
Anyway, let's get to last week's events and I am on the edge of my seat to talk about these.
Last week was so spectacular in so many ways I barely know where to start.
I guess I'll begin with the event that was effectively just rumour and gossip.
But holy shit.
Welcome to hashtag Piggate.
Piggate began when Michael Ashcroft released Call Me Dave, the unauthorized biography of David Cameron.
So you might be wondering, who is Michael Ashcroft?
Well, that's Lord Ashcroft to you, peasant, because he is a baron.
He is a peer for life and he is a billionaire.
He also is not a permanent resident in the UK for tax purposes, but you know.
So the majority of what was initially released was really about David Cameron's debauchery when he was at university.
He would get stoned, smoke drugs, take cocaine and hang out with his buddies and just act like twats.
Pretty standard stuff for university students.
Frankly, I wouldn't begrudge him a second of it.
But I guess if you're a baron and you're looking for something salacious to have on the current Prime Minister, I guess you would think that that would be it.
Although there are no photographs to prove it, and no one's come forward directly saying I saw David Cameron doing this, there are plenty of rumours that him and his wife used to smoke a lot of weed and take cocaine, and I don't give a damn about that in the slightest.
What's interesting is that Cameron has been asked more than once if he's ever taken cocaine, and he has repeatedly refused to deny it.
He has denied snorting it since becoming a parliamentarian.
When asked about cannabis, he merely says without further elaboration that he had a normal university experience.
So I think we can take this as an admission from David Cameron that he used to smoke weed and snort cocaine when at university and he had probably smoked weed and snorted cocaine since.
And if I hadn't gone and done the research for myself, I wouldn't know that he had done these things because the British public, in fact the internet at large, didn't give a fuck.
Nobody cares that you've done drugs, David.
It's not the issue.
The issue is Cameron's membership of something called the Piers Gaveston Society, named after the gay lover of Edward II, which specialises in bizarre rituals and sexual excess.
Because if there's one thing the British public love, it's pointless, salacious gossip about people who are considered to be their betters.
So when an unnamed source and contemporary of David Cameron's claims that he once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony at a Piers Gaveston event involving a dead pig, the extraordinary suggestion is that the future PM inserted a private part of his anatomy into the animal's mouth and you might be thinking, yeah, well that sounds like bollocks.
Someone who hates David Cameron would probably make up something like that.
Well, that's true.
However, the source is an MP themselves and claims to have seen photographic evidence of this disgusting ritual.
And the pig's head was resting on the lap of another Piers Gavriston Society member while Cameron did it.
The MP also gave the dimensions of the alleged photograph and provided the name of the individual who he claims has it in his keeping.
And this all seems to have been corroborated by the fact that there are a number of accounts of pigs' heads at debauched parties in Cameron's day.
And Cameron was a member of various other notorious clubs, such as the Bullingdon Club, which basically involved a bunch of toffee-nosed twats getting drunk, standing on restaurant tables, and shouting about fucking plebs.
It was all about despising poor people.
And this was enough for the court of public opinion to convict David Cameron.
He face fucked a dead pig.
And everyone was talking about it.
I could go through the hashtag and find you loads of examples, but honestly, it's more fun to do it yourself.
Just go for hashtag piggate or hashtag Hameron and check them out for yourself.
My personal favourite was this old article that someone dug up where Cameron secures a £45 million pig semen deal between the UK and China and everyone's favourite social justice hairpiece, Charlie Brooker, as the first episode of his Black Mirror series was a Prime Minister having to fuck a pig.
Just marvellous.
But these are just some of my personal favourites.
I recommend going through these hashtags and just checking them out for yourself.
have been getting busy with Photoshop it's it's marvellous The question, of course, is what does David Cameron and Downing Street have to say about this?
And the answer is absolutely nothing.
I guess it's one thing being a laughing stock, it's another thing being a liar as well.
What's interesting is that Lord Ashcroft is the former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party and a prolific donor.
Cameron and Ashcroft have apparently had a long-standing feud, who are said to have fallen out after Ashcroft was passed over for a leading role in the coalition government.
I guess that would explain why Ashcroft would write all of this in his unofficial biography of David Cameron.
But anyway, a spokesperson for the Prime Minister told The Independent, it's a no comment from us on any of it.
For reasons known only to herself, former Conservative MP Louise Mensch emphasised that the claims were unproven and characterised the story as, I didn't see anything but a mystery bloke has a photo.
Yes, this is the very same Louise Mensch who a few weeks ago tried to smear Jeremy Corbyn using her own Twitter search history because she's an idiot.
Since Downing Street and David Cameron have no comment on the issue, we should probably ask George Osborne, who struggled not to laugh as he made it clear that he had no comments to make either.
It's interesting that Piggate is being taken as a reflection of British politics as a whole.
This has become a fairly widespread opinion that I actually do share.
As the anonymous MP earlier put it, the Bullingdon Club was, well, about hating the poor and calling them fucking plebs.
And one of their initiation rituals includes burning a £50 note in front of a homeless person.
It's fairly easy to see Ashcroft's goal according to the mail as revenge.
In the years leading up to Cameron taking office in 2010, the tax-dodging billionaire donated over £8 million to the Conservative Party, bailing them out of debt after their disastrous election defeat in 2005.
He had worked as treasurer and later deputy chairman of the party, helping to manage them back to an electable public image under Cameron.
Yet Ashcroft had expected that he would be given high office in exchange for this, and Cameron didn't pay up when the time came.
It now appears that Ashcroft had spent the last five years compiling his book, Call Me Dave, in which the pig story and other damning allegations about the Prime Minister are made.
And when you really think about it, this is all a lot of hot air over nothing.
Except this is really about class.
That's what the Bullingdon Club and the Piers Gavston Society and other clubs like it do, and I completely agree with this author.
They are upper-class right-wing team-building.
The friendships and alliances forged in the secret drinking societies of powerful rich kids go on to define their careers, and these young men all have access to the highest rungs of British society.
Three prominent members of Cameron's cabinet were members, while many others went on to run the banks that crashed the economy in 2008 and the media empires that protect them.
And just so you're not under any sort of illusions, it has always been this way in almost every powerful civilization.
And I'm not just talking about contemporaries in America like the Skull and Bones Society and the Bilderberg group.
I'm talking about almost everywhere, like Roman orgies, Greek symposiums.
You've always had this kind of upper-class camaraderie formed by, well, frankly, having dirt on one another.
This forms one of the core mechanics of the British ruling class.
Why reveal someone's dirty little secret when you can keep schhtum about it and control them?
This forms the basis of the parliamentary whipping system, where the chief whip of each respective party is expected to have an arsenal of dirt locked away in their office so that when the time comes, the party leader can whip rebellious backbenchers with threats that sometimes include leaking that story about you that you really don't want to be leaked.
Piggate has made David Cameron a laughing stock.
And by the rules of the societies that he operates in, he had it coming.
Ashcroft did his part.
He paid the money.
He bailed them out.
Cameron should have scratched his back in return.
And he didn't.
And this is what he gets.
His career's probably over.
After he's not going to resign, he's going to wait on until he's finished with his tenure at Downing Street, and then he's going to quietly retire from politics.
Because if he doesn't, he will always get pig snuffling noises made at him.
I mean, he probably will anyway.
But it won't really matter if he's not in the public eye on running for a political office.
But isn't it interesting to watch how a political career can be completely destroyed without anything being proven?
And without David Cameron actually having done anything wrong.
He hasn't ruined the country.
He hasn't fucked anything up.
He's done exactly what he was elected to do.
I disagree with it, but that's what he was elected to do by the people who voted for him.
And through scandal, and just sleaze, and innuendo, is Cameron's career going to be ended?
Because he didn't toe the line.
So let this be a lesson.
If someone scratches your back, make sure you scratch theirs in return.
Especially if you have at any point, face fucked a dead pig.
And the thing is, I'm quite convinced that this is all true for two reasons.
One, it would be too much of a political risk for Ashcroft and anyone else involved to make such wild allegations against Cameron.
This would be ridiculous if it wasn't true.
Secondly, Cameron actively tried to halt Piggate Book and begged author sources not to squeal.
Nice one, Mira.
Very good.
And thirdly, David Cameron finally comments on Piggate and says that he is too busy to sue Lord Ashcroft.
Bollocks, Cameron.
Bollocks.
You just don't want this to go to court and for a picture of you face fucking a pig's head to be displayed as evidence.
So everyone knows that in fact you did do it.
So there we are, ladies and gentlemen.
For any of my international listeners, you've just witnessed British politics in action.
So the reason I put this story first is because it's all conjecture.
It's all we have heard from an anonymous source that we can only assume is telling the truth.
It's all about the internal politics of the upper class British system.
It doesn't really apply to anyone outside of it.
This is very much an internal affair that's being settled by people from within.
So the next stupid thing that we're going to talk about is Google Ideas and the monumental faux pas that they had made by engaging with social justice.
So Google Ideas' Twitter account tweeted out this photograph and it was well received exactly as you'd expect.
Because it didn't take people long to spot the Borg Queen Kaiser Soze in Unicron.
The only question really is what happened to Skeletor and what are they all doing at Google Ideas?
In fact, no, let's back up.
What is Google Ideas?
Apparently Google Ideas is a think tank specifically dedicated to supporting free expression while fighting harassment.
According to their website, Google Ideas is a team of engineers, researchers, and geopolitical experts who build products to support free expression and access to information, especially in repressive societies.
We focus on the problems faced by people who live in unstable, isolated or oppressive environments, including billions of people who are coming online for the first time.
So why the hell would they want to hear from a bunch of first world professional victims?
But Google Ideas clearly knew who they were getting in bed with.
There was no deception by omission.
There was nothing left out of the narrative about these people when approaching whoever it was that was dealing with them, I'm sure.
So an hour later, Google Ideas tweeted, The replies to our last tweet are precisely why we're exploring ways to combat online harassment.
The best Kafka trap you can imagine.
So go on Google.
Let's see exactly what the terrible problem was.
From Name Redacted, what a bunch of uglies.
Yuck.
Name Redacted.
Kill yourself, Google.
Doesn't even make any sense.
Name Redacted.
They should kill themselves.
Finally, we get to something that, well it's not a death threat, it's not very nice, is it?
I think it's safe to presume that these were the three nastiest tweets they could find.
Yes, three nasty tweets.
I think it's just worth remembering that Google Ideas claim to be a team of engineers, researchers, and geopolitical experts who build products to support free expression and access to information, especially in repressive societies.
We focus on the problems faced by billions of people who live in unstable, isolated or oppressive environments.
I guess, I guess, nasty words on the Twitter count.
I mean, I'm not saying it's anything to do with first world problems, but it's everything to do with first world problems.
What really amused me about this is that, as we said, Google Ideas clearly knew everything about the people that they were inviting to speak, which is why when Milo wrote an article called Google Ideas Invites Online Harassers to Talk About Online Harassment, everything about that title was absolutely true.
But as we already said, I mean, Google Ideas knew about that, right?
I mean, they must have known that Randy Harper is well documented for sending relentless mobs of abusers after her critics.
For one of them, for simply doing his job as a debt collector, because Randy happened to owe money.
And it's not just Randy, it's her supporters as well, who are quite happy to dox and dogpile and god knows whatever else, various people who happen to get in Randy's way.
Randy was even gracious enough to give us an example of why she's the sort of person you probably don't want to deal with in regards to this event.
She decided to go on Twitter and accuse Derek Smart, who spoke against GamingGate at the SPJ, who was allegedly flirty as fuck over the phone with her, which, again, isn't, it's not kind of harassment, it's not anything that Derek has done wrong, and frankly, I doubt that it's even true.
And I'm not saying this because if I personally found Randy Harper had washed up on a beach, I'd be looking for a stick of dynamite.
I'm saying it because Derek Smart categorically denies it and claims to have no particular reason to need to flirt with Randy Harper.
And having seen the evidence, I'm inclined to agree with him.
But it didn't stop there.
Randy then said that Derek had texted her Google voice number a fucking letter threatening me.
A letter Randy posts which begins, hiya, saw some tweets from you that is clearly simply critical of Randy and her actions.
However, Derek Smarts was taking none of her shit, threatened legal action, and suggests that Google Ideas should make someone over there take a closer look at an example of what they've championed.
But you know what, let's continue to do it for Google.
So next up is Zoe Quinn, the very honest young lady who cheated on her boyfriend at least five times and then repeatedly lied to him about it, who then promised that she'd never lie again, and when all of this finally went to some kind of court,
managed to get and enforce a gag order on the man she had emotionally abused because she had, quote, set up Google alerts to monitor his online activity, which means if he references her anywhere online, that constitutes contacting her.
Yes, someone that sociopathic actually exists.
And this is just in addition to everything else she's done, such as bombarding the Fine Young Capitalist feminist game design project with accusatory tweets and then DDoSing them.
Actually, no, sorry, I don't know that she was responsible for instigating the DDoS attack.
It just looks that way.
We know, though, that she was reveling in it as it happened.
As you can imagine, after learning about what terrible scum she was actually dealing with, the Google Ideas employee who had instigated all of this distanced herself from the online abusers she had cooperated with.
Izzy Zahorian, a designer and researcher for Google Ideas, whose Twitter bio says she is thinking about how to make the web a safer and more inclusive space, recently removed a number of retweets from attendees Randy Harper and Zoe Quinn.
An archive of her timeline from one day ago reveals a number of tweets from both individuals, but at a glance at the same timeline today shows those retweets have been unretweeted.
The internet is serious business, don't you know?
This is again the same Randy Harper who, one day before the Google Ideas event, had boasted about destroying men for sport.
What a kind-hearted person.
Also present was a journalist who helped trigger the high-profile public shaming of comet scientist Dr. Matt Taylor.
You know, Shirtgate.
You know, the guy who was bullied so badly by progressives of the internet for wearing the wrong shirt that he broke down in tears on a Google Hangout when trying to apologize.
But according to Anita Sarkeesian, online harassment is a real concern.
She says, you come to expect it.
As a woman writer, particularly if you're political, you come to expect the vitriol, the insults, the death threats.
After a while, the emails and tweets and comments containing graphic fantasies of how and where and with what kitchen implements certain pseudonymous people would like to rape you cease to be shocking and become merely a daily or weekly annoyance.
Something to phone your girlfriends about, seeking safety in hollow laughter.
Well, you've just told me you're not really bothered by them anymore.
They're just an annoyance.
Something that might happen weekly, but it's an annoyance.
Because it's words on the internet.
You know, let me give you an example of how this happens to everybody, Anita.
For example, loads of people sent me this Mad Max Fury Road review by the nostalgia critic.
I don't watch this guy because I find his voice to be insanely annoying.
But because people who kept sending it to me, I thought, oh wow, this will be exciting.
There must be something interesting in that.
So I watched it.
I was actually quite impressed with the effort they went to to recreate the film, and I didn't have any particular beef with the way he'd portrayed Menonists or sort of feminist Tom Hardy fangirls.
I think he'd been like, you know, equally misrepresentative of both groups.
So I left this rather innocuous comment for people to see that they didn't need to send me this video.
I don't see anything here to criticise apart from pointing out that Menonists don't actually exist, they're a parody, and that there's some heathen here saying that Thunderdome was the best Mad Max movie.
Obviously, The Road Warrior is objectively the best one.
Obviously.
But yeah, I thought Fury Road was fine.
I thought it was a bit overrated.
I really don't have anything else to say.
Now, I'm sure that we're both on the same page here, Anita, when I say that an innocuous comment like this doesn't deserve a torrent of abuse.
But look at this.
Of course, the number one Menonist on the web would say there's no such thing.
I mean, do I deserve to be criticized like that, Anita?
I would have thought that if I was the number one Menonist, I'd want it to be a thing, but, you know, I don't think I deserve to be called an old ways a better hipster.
Hipster?
Of all things?
Or what about this anonymous account?
Hey, you're dumb.
Do you think that's okay, Anita?
Is it okay?
I even had PC bros accusing me of being a male feminist.
Of all things.
Of course, the white nationalists turned up to project their fear of some black guy fucking their mothers.
But if that's not enough, I got called an Alex Joan wannabe and bottom feeder of Anit Sarkeesian's fame.
Talking shit again.
But they're not even addressing what I've said.
But Mir Mir had to spend time out of his life to say, my God, I can't stand you.
And here he is again.
Jeez.
People actually follow this cunt.
I got called the C word, Anita.
The C word.
Twice.
And 15 people liked it.
Do you know what that means?
Do you know, Anita, what that means?
It means I've been the victim of cyber violence.
I need to go to the UN and complain that I've been the victim of cyber violence and ask, nay, demand that everyone's freedoms be restricted because some people on the internet sent me nasty words.
The C word, Anita.
Cunt.
That's what I was called.
Imagine the emotional distress.
I deserve to be at the UN, just like you were last week with Zoe Quinn demanding exactly that.
One had mentioned it's not just what is legal and illegal, right?
Harassment is threats of violence, but it's also the day-to-day grind of you're a liar, you suck, you, you know.
Yaru Miharati, I do know it's terrible when people say things to you on the internet that you don't agree with because you're a controversial figure who's come out and said things like, oh, I don't know.
How about there's no such thing as sexism against men?
And when you find you can justify that, well, you can say almost anything about men, can't you?
Like that it's not a coincidence, it's always men and boys committing mass shootings.
Not a coincidence at all.
Or why are 98% of school shooters male?
That's a great question, Anita.
It's just like, why do blacks commit most of the crime, isn't it?
I mean, just imagine if you had said, there's no such thing as racism against Jews, and given whatever justification you like for it, how do you think it would come across?
Do you think there would be a lot of Jews telling you that you suck?
Making all of these hate videos to attack us on a regular basis and the mobs that come from those hate videos, etc.
And so, you know, I've spent a lot of time thinking about online harassment and what we can do about it.
And I think something that's really important to understand is that, you know, we know this, but I think it's worth saying that sexism and misogyny did not start with the internet.
It's been around for a long time.
And feminists for decades have been challenging these male-dominated systems.
So what we're seeing is that the internet is providing new ways to commit the same types of violence.
And so understanding that this is a cultural, that we really need to see a big cultural shift in how we deal with this.
And we can take note from activists that have been doing this work previously or have continued to do this work while acknowledging how technology is changing the face of current day sexism and misogyny.
So creating a cultural shift, I think, takes a great number of approaches.
And we've been hearing a lot about systemic change, and that makes me really happy because I think that that's really how we have to do this.
And so one of those approaches is I think that the online social media sites and the places in which we are engaging on these large platforms really need to step up and change the way that their systems operate.
So it's not enough that they simply put band-aids on the problem areas, that they need to completely reimagine what their systems look like in order to build sites that actively deter online harassment, that make it harder to do this.
We're not gonna go and convince every single person who does horrible things online to stop doing those things, but we can make systems that actively deter that kind of behavior, which would make a huge impact on the lives of me and so many other people who are being harassed online.
So, what we have right now is women are forced to build a fortress around themselves with the measly tools that we have online.
And so, we are being punished for people harassing us and you know, yes, period.
And I think that that's a really big problem.
And so, we need to really think about how we create this larger cultural shift, taking into consideration society at large, taking into consideration tech platforms, taking into consideration laws, so that people, like all people, can engage online and fully participate without fear of intimidation and violence.
Right.
Well, I don't know exactly what you're proposing, Anita, but it sounds like you want dictatorial control of society, every society, and the internet, and the laws of that society.
I think the answer's probably going to be no.
I'm really sorry.
Unfortunately, for controversial online personalities like us, because that's what we are, we're probably going to get called cunts quite a lot.
So, Sarkeesian and Quinn were at the UN to talk about cyber violence against women and girls, because cyber violence against men and boys is just fine.
Now, I'm not going to take the time to go through it in this video, because it'd take way too long, and because I don't need to.
I can just find a feminist online to tell me how bad this cyber harassment report is, and not because of the terrible levels of online violence that myself and many other victims have suffered.
No, it's bad because it's crap.
It's been written really, really poorly.
And I do have to stress that Anit Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn did not write this.
The responsibility for this sloppy work falls on the UN Broadband Commission.
Some of the issues with this report include, but are not limited to, duplicate or flat-out missing citations.
When these are removed, only 64% of the citations remain.
And 15% of the citations for the entire document are to the UN itself.
While everyone can agree that this report is a pile of crap, there is something good that came out of it, and that was the desperate attempt to make cyber violence sound like a real and credible threat.
This was obviously done using propaganda pictures, and they're amazing.
Indian sisters told they will be repeatedly gang raped as punishment for their brother's crime launch appeal at Supreme Court.
That sounds awful, but someone called this woman a nasty word in a comment section.
Female genital mutilation embraced by Sunni Muslims as Shiite government looks the other way?
Well, I mean, that is bad.
But this poor young girl tweeted something inflammatory, and a bunch of people told her to shut up and stop being stupid.
You can see why she's the one who's going to get priority.
UN says 3,600 raped in the Congo by military and rebels over four years.
I mean, that sounds really bad, but someone has just made an unfavorable video response to Anita Sarkeesian.
GamingGate critic Sarah Nyberg claimed to be a paedophile.
Oh shit.
Seriously, though, I think this can be best summed up by one of those pithy little cartoons, the sort that they were using for, oh, I don't know, Black Lives Matter.
I know that things are really, really bad in the Congo or in Iran or wherever women are actually being abused.
But I think that cyber violence matters too, and we should care exactly equally about that at all times.
Because all violence matters, real or cyber.
Seriously though, how selfish and entitled do you have to be to think that your problems on Twitter or YouTube or wherever are more important than everything else I've listed here?
They're more important than Saudi Arabia being chosen to head the UN Human Rights Panel.
I mean, what the fuck is wrong with these people?
But I tell you what, the Gadfather called it back in 2012.
The United Nations is a morally bankrupt body.
And by God, I can't find an argument against that.
But the thing is, all of this is really small fry.
I mean, it's not really affecting too many people too directly.
To really be the winner for last week, you have to screw millions of people out of millions of dollars.
Preferably people who are dying.
Just like Martin Shakelli did.
Oh, sorry, sorry, I've got that wrong.
His name's Martin Shakrelli, and he is apparently the most hated man in America.
Judging by social media, Martin Shikrelli, the 32-year-old chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, may be the most hated man in America right now.
He's been called a morally bankrupt sociopath, a scumbag, a garbage monster, and everything that's wrong with capitalism.
And those are some of the tamer comments.
So maybe he needs to go to the UN and complain about cyber violence as well.
So what exactly did this cherub-faced young captain of industry, this go-getter, do that caused so much ire?
How did a rap music-loving former hedge fund manager suddenly become the target of online ridicule and even death threats?
And more importantly, what is the UN doing to stop this cyber violence?
Well, the answer is of course nothing.
But what Shikrelli did is purchased a drug that AIDS patients have come to rely on that recently cost about $13.50 for each dose.
And then he hiked the price up by 5,000% to $750 a pill.
Now I know what you're thinking, this guy is probably Satan incarnate, and yes he is, but you kind of have to admire the brass balls on the man.
He went on to argue that this was warranted because the drug is highly specialized.
He likened it to an Aston Martin previously being sold at the price of a bicycle.
Without considering that maybe if an Aston Martin cost as much to make as a bicycle, then what he's saying is actually completely normal.
So after this backlash began, he turned around and quoted some MM lyrics because he's such a badass.
But eventually it got too much, and he agreed to lower the price on the drug to a point where it's more affordable.
Because he's such a charitable fellow, and I don't know why everyone isn't thanking him.
Obviously, he was not sorry for any of this.
Apparently bankrupting AIDS sufferers isn't something that weighs on his conscience, which kind of makes me think he doesn't have one.
So he is apparently committed to making sure that patients pay no more than $20 out of pocket for a course of his drug.
And he apparently seemed psychically bulletproof from online shrapnel and was unapologetic about his own salvos.
So, you know, maybe he just doesn't give a shit.
So this article was written by the moderator of his conversation.
And he's included a tweet at the bottom.
A responsible and experienced CEO would never have made this mistake.
He is a hedge fund guy and not a CEO.
Which is probably a really good point.
A CEO probably wouldn't have been so stupid.
As you can imagine, Shakrelli's price gouging has started a much larger conversation about the worst excesses of the American pharmaceutical industry, and this conversation needs to happen.
So, in a way, him being a greedy, soulless corporate slimebag has actually probably done good in the long run.
I think what I find most interesting about Shakrelli's story is that he's not a trust fund kid.
He didn't start with massive amounts of money.
In fact, he's the son of Albanian and Croatian immigrants.
And in fact, he's brilliant.
He skipped several grades in school and has, well, been a millionaire for a long time.
He's very good at what he does, so I can only imagine that he really is a corporate psychopath.
But you know what?
That doesn't really matter.
What really matters is what Donald Trump thinks of this.
And Donald Trump thinks this kid is a spoiled brat.
What a fucking legend.
That guy is nothing.
He's zero.
He's nothing.
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