Internet whipping boys

Odradek

George Lucas

Damon Lindelof

Michael Bay

M. Night Shyamalan

George Lucas

Peter Moffat

Imipolex G

you forgot George Lucas

Tre

unlike the others, though, he deserves it

Crystal

I expected Macklemore.

Alduin

John Green

E.L. James

Stephanie Meyer

One-Winged Eagle

I was going to post this elsewhere, but I felt this was a better place.

Guy's been crying.

Salix Babylonika

allegedly he paid someone $15 million to not release the new Kanye West album and the person he paid turned out to not actually be affiliated with GOOD Music because, surprise, rich idiots are still idiots and are easily scammed.

Calica

though he said he was talking to satoshi so he's probably just making shit up like when he punched a wall

glennmagusharvey

i'm surprised justin bieber hasn't come up yet

Calica

bieber's honestly kind of a prick but he still doesn't deserve the transphobic abuse

Princess Alice

Terrifying thought: Shkreli is exactly the kind of self-important idiot who will have a vanity presidential campaign 20 years down the line

One-Winged Eagle

I doubt he'll have enough money, but anything's possible.

Sredni Vashtar

He'll be in jail.

Obā-san

different

Imipolex G

He will not collect $200

Bee

I wouldn't be surprised if he slips out of it, TBH

Princess Alice

Sredni Vashtar said:

He'll be in jail.

see you have more faith in our justice system than i do if you think they'll actually manage to keep a rich white boy in jail

Tachyon

Baldanders said:

Peter Moffat

and Steven!

(there was actually a Doctor Who writer named Peter Moffatt, whose output varied in quality, but it's Steven who gets most of the hate; idk if you're referring to a different person with the same name?)

Princess Alice

I don't know why I had it in my head that his name was Stephen

Why are there two different ways to spell "Steven" anyways??

Tachyon

i can never remember which it is, but i googled and it's Steven

Aliroz

It's so we can tell Stephen Fry from Steven Fry.

One's an athiest, one's a christian singer.

Tachyon

(as to WHY, lots of names have variant spellings, since there's no standardization and you can't very well tell someone they're spelling their own name wrong.  "Stephen" is the older spelling; i would guess "Steven" probably became more prevalent due to the popularity of the nickname "Steve"?)

Salix Babylonika

you know it's me and you

and our dog Blue

Princess Alice

Tachyon said:

(as to WHY, lots of names have variant spellings, since there's no standardization and you can't very well tell someone they're spelling their own name wrong.  "Stephen" is the older spelling; i would guess "Steven" probably became more prevalent due to the popularity of the nickname "Steve"?)

I wouldn't be surprised if "Steven" was an American variation

Ever since Noah Webster, Americans have had this thing about spelling words how they sound :P

Tachyon

maybe

hm, i was thinking both were probably more common in the US than over here, but that appears not to be the case

Tachyon

The spelling "Stephen" reached its peak of popularity in the United States in the period 1949–1951, when it was the 19th most popular name for newborn boys. It stayed in the top 100 boys' names from 1936 through 2000, and for most years between 1897 and 1921. In 2008 it was the 192nd most common name for boys.[9]

The spelling "Steven" reached its peak of popularity in the United States in the period 1955–1961, when it was the 10th most popular name for newborn boys. It stayed in the top 100 boys' names from 1941 through 2007. In 2008 it was the 104th most popular name for boys. Before the 20th century, the "Steven" spelling was heavily outweighed by "Stephen", never reaching above 391st.[9]

In England and Wales, neither "Stephen" nor "Steven" was among the top 100 names for newborn boys in 2003–2007.[10] In Scotland, "Steven" and "Stephen" were the 8th and 10th most popular names for newborn boys in 1975, but were not in the top ten in 1900, 1950 or 2000.[11] "Stephen" was 68th in 1900,[12] and 46th in 1950,[13] while "Steven" was not in the top 100 either year. Neither spelling was in the top 100 names for newborn boys in Scotland in 2008.[14] Neither "Stephen" nor "Steven" was among top 25 most popular baby boys' names in Ireland in 2006 or 2007.[15]

Salix Babylonika

what about Stefan though

Obā-san

stefaen

Salix Babylonika

Styfan

Obā-san

schefawn

Salix Babylonika

Shantophyyeen

Obā-san

ceftaun

Tre

Section42L

Central Avenue said:

Sredni Vashtar said:

He'll be in jail.

see you have more faith in our justice system than i do if you think they'll actually manage to keep a rich white boy in jail

He's the new Bernie Madoff.

The guy everyone in his industry decides to pounce upon to distract attention away from their own wrongdoings.

He'll go to jail and stay there.

Calica

Today is Tomorrow said:

schefawn

shuhvahn

Sredni Vashtar

Section42L said:

Central Avenue said:

Sredni Vashtar said:

He'll be in jail.

see you have more faith in our justice system than i do if you think they'll actually manage to keep a rich white boy in jail

He's the new Bernie Madoff.

The guy everyone in his industry decides to pounce upon to distract attention away from their own wrongdoings.

He'll go to jail and stay there.

That, and he's an unusually egregious example of his type. He's basically narcissistic avarice and arrogance personified. Even other scumbags want to take him down a peg on principle.

Salix Babylonika

I hope he dies.

Salix Babylonika

I hope every person like him dies, actually.

Obā-san

well, people do tend to die more often than not

Salix Babylonika

To be more specific I hope he dies soon.

Calica

I hope he inspires systemic change that prevents people from doing quieter and more devious versions of the stuff he does openly and mockingly

glennmagusharvey

I keep on wanting to pronounce "Stephen" like "steffen" but I don't think there's anyone who actually has that name and pronounces it like that.

Thankfully, "Stefan" has an unambiguous pronunciation.

Salix Babylonika

Calica said:

I hope he inspires systemic change that prevents people from doing quieter and more devious versions of the stuff he does openly and mockingly

and then dies.

Tatterhood

glennmagusharvey said:

Thankfully, "Stefan" has an unambiguous pronunciation.

I've definitely heard this pronounced as both "STEF-an" and "ste-FAHN".

Bee

Calica said:

I hope he inspires systemic change that prevents people from doing quieter and more devious versions of the stuff he does openly and mockingly

This.

Honestly literal bloodthirst, even directed at him, is more horrifying than what he was doing.  Either be progressive, or be vindictive and disproportionate -- they're pretty mutually exclusive ideas.

Section42L

Not to mention the fact that he wants to be the world's supervillain, and wishing he'd die is just giving him what he wants.

He's been ejected from his position of power and will sink ever deeper into irrelevance over whatever period of time until he's finally put behind bars. That, not death, is what really scares him.

Klinotaxis

i hope he gives me ten million dollars for no reason, I think

Obā-san

Klinotaxis said:

i hope he gives me ten million dollars for no reason, I think

i'd be down with this

Salix Babylonika

Section42L said:

Not to mention the fact that he wants to be the world's supervillain, and wishing he'd die is just giving him what he wants.

I don't care what he wants, though.

Bee said:

Calica said:

I hope he inspires systemic change that prevents people from doing quieter and more devious versions of the stuff he does openly and mockingly

This.

Honestly literal bloodthirst, even directed at him, is more horrifying than what he was doing.  Either be progressive, or be vindictive and disproportionate -- they're pretty mutually exclusive ideas.

I was not really in a good state of mind when I made that post.

He is an asshole though.

You can choose to not believe me of course, I am an occasionally extremely judgmental and vindictive person, but usually only when I'm angry.

I guess that's most people actually.

I don't consider it one of my good points though. Maybe that's the difference between me and people who really strongly support the death penalty.

Salix Babylonika

Incidentally I don't appreciate being bundled with other liberals since I disagree with much of the rest of the left semi-often, but I suspect you wouldn't appreciate being bundled with other conservatives, so fair play I guess.

Klinotaxis

Also I hope that somehow the economics of pharmaceutical R&D and marketing are somehow magically made less incredibly broken, because that doesn't seem to be a thing politicians are doing, and in any case it's hard and maybe impossible.