A newly unveiled statue of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk was vandalized at the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.
The statue was found with red spray-paint. A nearby poster memorial in front of the statue was vandalized with red paint as well.
New Charlie Kirk statue vandalized at Turning Point USA headquarters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/13/charlie-kirk-statue-vandalized-tpusa-arizona
208 Comments
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 148 pts · 2d
Very sad, folks. Very sad. Just look at what they did the new brand new statue. The thing was only just unveiled! Goodness!
treadful@lemmy.zip · 84 pts · 2d
They marked the neck at least.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 2d
Charlie wouldn’t want the truth washed away
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 1d
That was there before
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 1d
Next time they should use thermite...
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
And not as dangerous as many other acids
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
terranoid@lemmy.cafe · 7 pts · 2d
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 121 pts · 2d
My gut says there's a 40% chance they did this themselves to try and gain sympathy. They thought Kirk would be their Horst Wessel, but public opinion never went their way. Less than a month in and they couldn't even get Jimmy Kimmel fired. A year in and everyone finds the Kirk widow off-putting. Thanks to Candice Owens, they're even reduce to arguing with own supporters about whether Erika Kirk and the Mossad had Charlie killed. I could see this being a last ditch effort to regain narrative control.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 2d
Idk if it were a false flag thing they probably would have spraypainted some dumb shit like "A TRANS ANTIFA DID THIS MUHAHAHA" or "IM SO GAY FOR CHARLIE" or something obvious like that, because they lack subtlety.
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 26 pts · 1d
or “left is best” as was done previously
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
Fair point, there's no, "Black's rule," spay painted in front of this.
RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1d
If they can write
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
It would be on-brand for them to do this to themselves. There never was a war on Christmas.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1d
candance ownes is pretty much who kept kirk's "legacy alive" since she was questioning the motive behind his assasination. "reporting on the billionaire backer associated with israel(since shes antisemetic she would report on this) was pressuring kirk to stop associating with TUCKER CARLSON. candace also dint like erika kirk.
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I have been wondering if we would even be talking about Kirk if it weren't for Owens conspiracy theories.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 22h
, she had some evidence(recorded phone conversations with charlie) that he was frustrated by his israeli billionaire backer pressuring him to stop hosting "nazis" on his podcasts, that they were doing this to him. she is apparently a very close friends of him, she doesnt like ERIKA kirk thats for sure.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
40% sounds right. Not out of the question.
Gaslov@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Just by the responses in this thread, I don't think it's approaching anywhere near 40%.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 87 pts · 2d
I think a paintball gun would be a better choice next time. They'll put up more cameras, another fence, etc. A gun would be faster and they could stand back a ways.
Kirp123@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 2d
They should leave it like this. That thing is never staying clean.
glitch1985@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
Such an American response. I love it.
Ironfist79@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Good, put it behind a fence so nobody else has to look at it.
TRBoom@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 2d
That paint is highly washable.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 2d
Pellet-Mark Oil-Based Paintballs are durable for 4-6 years (on trees) and are designed to be fired from a .68 caliber paintball pellet gun to mark hard to reach targets from a distance. They are used to mark trees and animals from across ravines, over difficult to traverse ground, across streams, from horseback, vehicle or helicopter.
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 1d
He was a social media influencer, not an activist. Everything he did was for attention or profit.
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social · 68 pts · 1d
I don't cry for a man who called for the stoning of gays.
rmuk@feddit.uk · 26 pts · 1d
Instead, we can all laugh for the man who fought hard to change the world for others and got to experience that world for himself.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1d
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I can never see this meme and not think of this...
https://youtu.be/oMRgdpXLElE
Nalivai@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1d
This level of poetic justice happens so rarely.
redkid1324@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
Clip in context?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1800678317030564306
I know, a twitter link. Throw it into yt-dlp.
Also, the line that Kirk counters Ms Rachel with may have been a mistranslation and the original text may have said something more along the lines of "Man shall not lay with a boy the same as they lay with a woman", which is a very contentious idea among Christians. Whether that's because it means they're not being told to hate gay people or because they're being told to hate statutory rapists is up to you.
Pegajace@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 1d
It is not a mistranslation, it's very clearly talking about same-sex intercourse. The "mistranslation" angle is being invented out of whole cloth to retcon the Bible.
I appreciate the Christians who are trying to be accepting of LGBTQ+, but IMO they should just acknowledge the Biblical authors were wrong about this instead of pretending they didn't say what they said.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
If it was just about same sex intercourse, they would have included a line about women lying with women. This was very likely more about not denigrating another man by forcing them into the role of a woman. Also, given this spent generations as oral tradition before being written down and translated several times, trying to say your particular personal interpretation is the only possible correct one is asinine at best.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Clearly, it just meant that hetro couples shouldn't do anal.
redkid1324@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 1d
Favorite take so far. Lol
redkid1324@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 1d
I'll have to push back there and maybe you have an argument if this was the only time it was talked about in scripture but it is not and it matches the threads of other biblical narratives.
A common thread through the Bible is that families are God's plan for humans on this side of death. They are good to His kingdom and to promote the values of His love. Now homosexuality would directly go against that narrative so I don't think the "man to a woman role" is a valid argument anymore. Romans 1 goes through the "homosexuality is bad" too.
Someone else said we are to say the writers of the Bible are wrong and that is a fundamental difference in ideals that we cannot overcome. I believe the Bible is the word of God and it is complete, authoritative and not up for change based on societal influences where that may not be the case for others so we would be arguing from literal difference in fundamental values. And that's ok to do but no resolution could possibly come out of that.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 23h
Oh, so you read the bible in its original ancient Hebrew? I wasn't aware any copies survived past the end of the Mouseion. Or do you just conveniently not count all of the translations, excisions and retranslations, along with editorialising at times such as the council of Nicea as "change based on societal influences"? Or, perhaps, do you believe that God, YHWH himself, gave forth the words, in English, to produce the specific version you read?
redkid1324@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 20h
I do read it in the ancient Hebrew sometimes and the Bible is one of the most accurate references of history known to mankind. That is a fact. All other books have a fraction of the same accuracy.
Here is some information for you.
The Bible has far more early manuscript copies and a higher percentage of textual agreement between those copies than any other ancient book from the classical world . [1, 2, 3]
Manuscript Count and Comparison
The New Testament: Scholars have found over 5,800 early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. When including ancient translations in other languages, the total number of early copies exceeds 24,000.
Other Ancient Books: Standard historical works, such as the writings of Plato or Tacitus, survive in only a small handful to a few dozen handwritten copies. Even Homer’s Iliad, which has the next-highest count for an ancient work, has around 1,900 surviving manuscripts.
Details on this manuscript evidence are outlined by the C.S. Lewis Institute.
Textual Accuracy and Preservation
Copy Consistency: When scholars compare thousands of older biblical copies, they find a 95% to 99.5% rate of agreement.
Types of Errors: Most differences between copies are minor spelling mistakes, flipped word orders, or missing single letters made by tired scribes. Very few differences change the meaning of a passage, and none change core doctrines. [4, 5, 6]
Historical and Archaeological Views
Support for Specific Details: Traditional researchers and groups like GotQuestions.org note that archaeology has confirmed many named kings, cities, and events in both the Old and New Testaments.
Broader Debate: Professional historians hold a range of views. While some portions of the text align closely with external historical records, other parts are viewed as theological or legendary narratives rather than strict, literal history. [10, 11, 12]
Would you like to explore the archaeological discoveries related to a specific part of the Bible, or look into how textual criticism works?
AI responses may include mistakes.
[1] https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/resources/how-accurate-is-the-bible/
[2] https://nextstepdisciple.org/article/reliability-of-the-bible
[3] https://thinke.org/blog/how-do-we-know-the-bible-is-accurate
[4] https://makinghimknown.tv/the-bible-truth-or-fiction/
[5] https://www.facebook.com/JesseSpeaksFB/posts/how-accurate-is-our-bibles-compared-to-ancient-manuscripts-surprising-answer-bib/497430153111807/
[6] https://kenboa.org/how-accurate-is-the-bible/
[7] https://www.icr.org/biblical-record
[8] https://alexmcfarland.com/is-the-bible-completely-authentic/
[9] https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-accurate.html
[10] https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/5o1pwj/how_historically_accurate_is_the_bible/
[11] https://www.quora.com/Do-historians-other-than-Christian-apologists-really-consider-The-Bible-to-be-the-most-well-verified-book-in-history-or-to-be-historically-accurate-in-general
[12] https://www.facebook.com/groups/467799950536561/posts/1740638269919383/
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 9h
You can't even speak in your own words and you think you are the all knowing authority on the Bible? Settle down with that blasphemy please.
redkid1324@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 7h
Did I say I was an all knowing authority on the Bible? No I'm bringing up counterpoints. That's how discussions work
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1d
The Bible has been translated and re-translated across basically every language on the planet, as well as appropriated for propaganda purposes over and over as well. To think that you can take a line at face value - especially in English - is naive. There have been at least 50 different cultures and societal revolutions between you and when that line was first written.
For example, the King James version of the Bible is a propaganda piece commissioned by a monarch at a time when kings were quite literally losing their heads with the express purpose of including as many references to kings and monarchies as possible in order to foster positive sentiments in the peasants toward the "divine right of kings" or whatever.
In early versions of the Bible, Lucifer was imprisoned in Tartarus alongside the Titans that Zeus put in there. I'm pretty sure Hell was added later during a medieval reformation or something. The Bible was definitely altered several times during the Medieval period. The line in question here I think had at least 3 variants during this time period. The one claimed to be about same-sex intercourse, a version potentially about not engaging in CSAM, and one that might be about not fucking somebody in another person's bed.
King David, one of God's anointed, had something like 32 wives and a friend who "loved him in a way that no woman ever could."
One of the people that Jesus heals is the slave of a Roman soldier. In the original Latin text, the word used is for a specific type of slave. A male slave commonly kept as a lover.
And we could have a field day on Biblically accurate angels, "Be not afraid," and the Renaissance era redefining what an angel is.
And then there's also the fact that the Bible was written by multiple different people across several hundred years, at least. The later parts of the New Testament were written by people who lived 300 years after the death of Christ and claimed to know him and what he wanted better than his apostles did. Some of whom who said that the Old Testament and original sin still counted despite the nullification of the Old Testament and the cleansing of original sin being one of the reasons that Christ supposedly sacrificed himself for.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
A) They can't acknowledge the Bible was wrong about anything. The whole point of their religion is that the Bible is God's words written down by man. Even when you know about the conclave that decided which of the hundreds of "biblical" stories were apocryphal and which were true, hundreds of years after the events of those stories supposedly happened, they will still say that God was guiding that conclave. Bringing up a bad translation also doesn't help, since King James was guided by God to create his translation. The Bible CANNOT be wrong (according to Christians), since it is the word of God.
B) Historical context is important if you want to try interpreting God's words instead of taking them literally. Romans had a very different lifestyle and view of sex and the role of men and women. It could be that God's word was that the TYPE of male relationships the Romans had was not what God wanted, but just two dudes banging was fine.
PepperoniNipple@lazysoci.al · 1 pts · 1d
When I showed you evidence of the Iron River getting thousands of Mexicans killed under American-made guns, 30,000+ of them every year plus another 20,000+ if you count the depression, misery and poverty an environment like that causes, the cardiovascular and neurological diseases it causes on the poorest and most vulnerable, and how angry I was at that injustice, and the fact you have killed my family in the Middle East and Mexico, you kept gaslighting and then replied with this:
Why should anyone give a MAGA like you raw data? You are a piece of shit who denies reality and ignores the deaths of minorities.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 1d
The most useful thing he ever did was die
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 1d
Anyone can die
But it takes a special kind of person to become the victim of gun violence while publicly defending gun violence.
Absolute legend.
modus@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1d
I'm so proud of him.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1d
Yeah, he really demonstrated the ills of gun violence.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1d
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."
"And, of course, our hearts go out to the victims in Kentucky for every one of these situations. But we cannot allow them to emotionally hijack the narrative."
"You must use reason when you look at these things," Kirk added. "A free society comes with a cost, and that cost is worth it. Liberty is worth it."
Kirk died doing what he really believed in: getting shot to protect our right to shoot him.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1d
His wife agrees. But, she apparently has failed to capitalize on the event as much as she hoped to.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
Not for lack of trying.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 1d
He died doing what he loved, celebrating gun violence.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 2d
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 1d
Remember that guy who spent $10k making a statue of Kirk? It's not even that statue they have outside lol. Some how two statues of this man!?
parlaptie@feddit.org · 9 pts · 1d
The right wing really want him to be their martyr
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
These grifters are so underhanded it's proply one MAGA statue maker destroying another's to get sales.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 1d
addie@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 1d
His face is far too big on his head, doesn't even look like him.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 27m
AI slop tends to drag things toward the average appearance for what it depicts.
CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social · 1 pts · 6h
Yeah he just looks like a generic white reply guy. Of course, that is what he was in reality.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 1d
cdf12345@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1d
Look at this nazi ass
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Saved!
BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1d
Counting or not counting gang vandalism?
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1d
*pop*
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Crazy how his neck just exploded on its own.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 1d
Maybe get a statue of Hitler and Mussolini as well, oh, dont forget Pol Pot and one of trump.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
Tiral@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
No Mao?
Tolc@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 1d
mao was great. Cry about it
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1d
Lol, that's they funniest joke on this page.
Tolc@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 1d
what do you know about chinese revolution and chinas history?
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1d
That Mao was a Fuck up that got more of his own countrymen killed then he did during the Civil War for starters.
PepperoniNipple@lazysoci.al · -2 pts · 1d
If Mao was a fuck up, how come China is currently raping the USA in the World Stage? His Great Leap Forward worked.
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1d
not american, and also mao had little to do with any of china achievements, itd likely have achieve more if hed died off after the war but sadly he didnt.
Tolc@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 1d
Source: Trust me bro
Libtards cant help rewriting history as to minimize imperialist crimes
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 23h
Or you can ignore Chinese history and spout the crap the CCP talks about like a ml tard
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1d
Mao's writings on epistemology (on practice, on contradiction, where do correct ideas come from, & on the correct handling of contradictions among the people) are incredible, and I think everyone should read them. Especially the first two!
Those poor sparrows though 😔
Tolc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
total sparrow destruction
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social · 0 pts · 1d
Go back to .ml where you belong
Tolc@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1d
Avg liberal after running out of facts.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social · 5 pts · 1d
Do you understand why we call you tankies? Because I feel like the tanks are a pretty big thing to ignore.
PepperoniNipple@lazysoci.al · 0 pts · 1d
Because you are MAGAs. Blue or red, light or heavy, doesn't matter, you're literally using a word right-wing "MAGAs" from back then created and abused.
Every single American I have spoken to about Mao, they always paint him as a cartoonishly evil guy who would wake up every morning with an insatiable desire to kill thousands of his own people for no good reason at all, just being evil.
What caused the deaths were the exaggerated quotas that left no food to the peasants. Mao was lied by his piers, because admitting defeat was dangerous to them, but he still found out and reduced those quotas, it was just too late by then.
No one is perfect and flawless, but, the way you paint China or Mao is the same way you have painted Muslims and Arabs as "genetically-born evil terrorists that deserve to die," that hate America "for no reason." You are doing the exact same shit with China, because they kicked you and Britain's ass. They actually managed to become a behemoth, something you don't want anyone to do, hence the reason you are currently killing a bunch of children in Iran, "so they don't get a nuke and become more independent from us" or getting over 30,000+ innocents of us, Mexicans, killed every year with the Iron River. Add another 20,000+ if you count the depression, misery, poverty and silent cardiovascular and neurological diseases an environment like that causes in the poorest and most vulnerable.
You do that to keep us filled with fear, so we work for you for cents an hour, cheap hand labor. That's what you are. You know Mexico has the lands to become an agricultural super power, same with its oil reserves which you already frackled and left us with all the mess frackling does, you simply don't want us to succeed. You pay us a sixth of the salary you pay the average American worker, just for being Mexican. Working as a software engineer from home, same results, same effort, same everything, except the salary, we and Indians and so on are being exploited by American worms.
So, for so long, I used to believe American propaganda about Asia. Ever since I was a kid I noticed you only talked negatively about it all the time. Their air contamination, their overpopulation, their exploitation, you only showed the bad, never the good. I had to go read and find out myself, and what I found out, was just another fabricated attempt to create a similar movement as Islamophobia in the USA, but toward Asians: Sinophobia.
That's literally America's strongest and only talent: Their ability to turn people into racists. Just look at you, you probably cannot even properly explain why you hate China. If your only responses are "cuz they communists, authoritarians" you are literally a MAGA.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1d
Damn, that's a lot of assumptions about my beliefs based on absolutely jack shit.
Today I learned that I
And that you're so good at reading people that you deduced all of that from me saying Mao was bad because he deployed tanks against his own citizens.
You really think everyone one centimeter to the right of you is a singleminded liberal monolith, don't you?
https://youtu.be/wmVkJvieaOA
mobyduck648@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15h
Tolc@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1d
Because you are capitalist imperialists. Do you think I care?
BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8h
Bro, we can smell your unwashed narcissism from here.
And of course you care. You care most of all about what others think of you. You just pretend not to care because you're emotionally (and maybe literally) a teenager.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social · 1 pts · 17h
About the tanks? You ought to.
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2d
Pretty sure it was delivered like that. Nothing to see here.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
The statue just did that.
SwissArmyKazoo@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1d
He wasn't a Nazi, He just said a bunch of egregious stuff that people who hate Nazis hate
Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 1d
The pose they chose for him is throwing hats? Really?
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1d
Moving merch in life and death.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 1d
yes that exactly what he is, giving away promotional maga hats, so people will be drawn into his manoshpere.
Ele7en7@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
Yeah, throwing hats flamboyantly lmao
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 2d
It's a communal art project. Everyone gets to participate.
A distinct improvement if you ask me. I'm sort of an expert.
hexdream@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1d
The irony that he is now immortlized as "brown".
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 6h
Tarnishing Charlie Brown and everyone just going to let him feel like crap.
Localhorst86@feddit.org · 19 pts · 1d
it's weird that his statue just did that.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 1d
will there be one for erika having a wwe style celebration event?
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1d
Hebe, the British were smarter. They put Margaret Thatcher on a rather high and hard to climb pedestal.
Some people have resorted to play "Ding, Dong, the witch is dead" on full blast from their BT speakers in that park, though.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Apparently there was a push back against criticisms of Margaret Thatcher at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5eufYYpHwE
merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
Reminds me of this based reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUlj48Rvp1c
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2d
DemandtheOxfordComma@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 2d
If turning point had any decency at all I would feel like this was inappropriate. And so I say, GOOD!
sapphironZA@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1d
Who?
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 1d
Some guy known for his neck pain
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
You win the internet today
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
And leaning left.
Nalivai@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1d
Some random grifter whose biggest claim to fame was that his face was way too small for his head.
Leviathan@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1d
Memorializing the day someone finally convinced him to lean left.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1d
I think it looks great. It just needs a matching one of his wife all dressed in gaudy gold cheerleader-like outfits like right after his funeral.
Naive@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
it really happened?
Suffa@lemmy.wtf · 14 pts · 1d
Love the neck paint
Avicenna@programming.dev · 12 pts · 1d
looks historically accurate
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 1d
Paint? Pfft, call me when Kirk's memorial is covered in shit, urine, and vomit, and even then it'd be kept too clean for my tastes.
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social · 7 pts · 1d
No idea why you're being downvoted. Kirk's statue deserves to be used as a public restroom, much like the man's corpse.
lemmygarden@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1d
Save up bottles of piss jugs and bring them as an offering
cdf12345@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
Hey Jeff Bezos…….
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
Hook a blood spurtting fountain to the neck.
Chezus9247@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
To quote princess Zelda: "Good."
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1d
Horst (Blood) Vessel.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2d
Good.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1d
Kirk is also an ex-spurt.
Hayduke@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2d
I mean really, who saw that coming?
harmbugler@piefed.social · 8 pts · 1d
I can think of one person who didn't
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 9 pts · 1d
Isnt it supposed to look like that?
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 9 pts · 1d
They should braze the tiniest dick on it. Just big enough to notice.
Huschke@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
I don't think I'd go that far. Yes, he had his following, but I don't think he was that influential.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 28 pts · 1d
His corpse was a useful propaganda tool to Trump for a week and then he moved onto the next thing.
Tiral@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1d
From my understanding Kirks wife moved onto a lot of things too.
Up_dog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
She’s deep state. Planted. Suddenly inherits turning point. Nothing makes sense
TheMinister@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
This is the second reference to his wife being shady after he died, what’s the story there?
Avicenna@programming.dev · 3 pts · 1d
It sort of started with this and took off
lemmygarden@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 1d
They got the neck to recreate the moment
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 22h
Has to go along with the loser generals and their loser flags.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d
Those disgusting vandals painted red on his shirt, face, hand and hat!
That spot on his neck is just accuracy tho. Should've been there to begin with
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2d
Who?
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2d
Charlie Who.
echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1d
Didn't he fly some spaceship?
lemmygarden@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 1d
Gotta put a trans flag scarf around his neck
Etterra@discuss.online · 7 pts · 1d
Hey if you're gonna memorialize the tiny faced bastard, you at least need to get the coloring right. That splash of red is exactly what he wanted to make an impact in the world.
arc99@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 15h
A town in Sweden erects a giant straw goat every Yule / Christmas and somebody almost always finds a way to burn it down. That's despite ever increasing measures to protect the goat - fencing, spotlights, CCTV, security guards.
Well that's Charlie Kirk's statue. They'll have to encase the thing behind glass and steel walls to protect it from ever more novel attacks.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 8h
"When you build the straw goat how do you do it?"
"Well we first take a 500W high intensity light bulb and pack the straw around it. Makes it shine from inside. Very pretty."
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 6h
What is the intent for the straw horse other than to be burned?
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1d
Right, now - get on those Epstein Files. They're right there, and the perps are right there. Why not them first? Women and children first ... so com'on. Two step it.
CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social · 6 pts · 6h
Should have just painted the neck tbh
QubaXR@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Instead of a statue, I think a fitting tribute would be to segregate population of a town into "us" and "them", build a wall, then establish a Checkpoint Charlie at the crossing. You know, follow historically tried ideas.
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
It looks like they stuck him out by the office bins.
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1d
Yes. Very sad. Anyways…
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1d
Some people all they want is to piss other people off.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Apparently he pissed off someone with good aim.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Some acts of vandalism are acceptable if we can retain our rights to spray paint.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1d
Trump thinking..."Even that Kirk guy gets a statue. What do I need to do to grab their respect by the throat?"
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 1d
LeftReddit2@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
I just popped a perky.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
Funny, I saw the post in a conservative sub. Both highly upvoted, but probably not for the same reasons.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
The /c/cpnservative is mostly critical of conservatives, from what I've seen. They just took the name out of the equation
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 13h
It was on reddit..
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 12h
Ah, yes. I wouldn't do I didn't think they way.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Now if someone would also drill a nice hole into the statue.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
If they're smart, they will allow people to paint all over it. Otherwise, it's an ugly statue aesthetically in my opinion, paint could only improve it.
If they're really smart, they did this themselves. Press brings them donations.
I say this as someone who is anti-Kirk murder and anti-political murders in general. I think his assassination will make his message much stronger than it was when he was alive, and now he's a martyr for a message that fundamentally thrives on martyrs. He's already gotten a lot more press than he would of if he was alive.
teslekova@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1d
What's his message? Because I haven't heard anything about it except "I died because I love guns lol".
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
He became a meme, not a martyr.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip · 0 pts · 1d
They tried really hard to make him a martyr only to realize within a week or so that no one gave a shit.
It's been a year, people are only bringing it up because it hit the year mark. He'll go back to bring an ironic death for a piece of shit any day now
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
should be chopped down
MithranArkanere@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I would have brought a metal saw and a welder and turned that hand into the gesture he would have actually wanted to do.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d
why go after the statue?
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
Why he gets a statue?
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1d
no idea but it tells me what kinda place turning point is.
FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
That's the wrong question to ask here. We definitely don't need to address the underlying issue of why someone would do this. What we really need is more good guys with paint cans who can paint over the bad guys' paint. If we add more paint to the equation we can definitely stop statues from being painted.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 0 pts · 1d
yeah I don't think anyone got it. so your at turning point usa and your going after the statue. I was implying a better target for more agressive action.
FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I was just being facetious and callous towards the people clutching pearls over this (thanks Charlie for teaching us this is the best way to engage on social issues). Not really arguing your point!
chewypoops@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Somebody already went after the real thing, so we gotta make due.
0x0@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 1d
Naive@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d
We are heading towards idiocracy, don't we?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
No. Idiocracy was funny.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
To be honest, Idiocracy was an optimistic look into our future. At the very least they were actually trying to fix their problems and willing to listen (at least somewhat) to the smartest person in the world to do it.
Not to mention, they were willing to change their minds when presented with contradictory evidence.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
There's an implicit criticism in Idiocracy of "Smart" people. Specifically, of institutionalized and bureaucratized forms of tracking and grading intelligence.
The movie kicks off with a bunch of ostensibly smart people doing a bunch of stupid shit - putting careers ahead of family, turning the military into a status symbol, prioritizing asthetics (curing baldness) over real human health. It's implied that the human response to declining intelligence is to build a supercomputer that outsources all our thinking from us.
If we're living in anything, it's the prequel to Idiocracy.
Naive@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Well Trump is no less than a comedian
gnate@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
He's much less than a comedian.
Naive@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Oh boy, he is the most mocked guy ever. His accent and hand movements are the most comedic among all the PMs, seconding Obama.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Chief Clown and Distracter.