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      Gotta find something to pad between articles from JK Rowling about how Dumbledore would happily murder Trans people and some Reform UK slimeball insisting Ukraine refugees were stealing all the NHS money.

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    Labeling fascist culture war ghouls “activists” may literally be correct but I refuse to consider them so. They are not activists as we colloquially consider them. They are agitators, stochastic terrorists and our media has been laundering their awful slop for far too long.

    Have fun in hell Charlie you scumbag.

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      Charlie Kirk was an “activist” in the same way that Horst Wessel was an “activist” - which is to say that the regime picked him up as a mascot after he got ganked, so the regime could get some blood on their flag and say “look what they did to my boy 😭”.

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    Really takes off from the headline…

    Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.

    To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio.

    “Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” he told the Guardian.

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    It’s a decent likeness, but somehow not quite creepy enough.

    I wouldn’t pay money or travel to see it, but if I happened to walk by it and I was sure of not catching a charge, I’d probably be willing to stop and piss on it.

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      His weird body is the creepy part of this statue. It looks like his body is underwater and you’re viewing it from above the surface in the way that makes it look squashed.

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        Ah. I looked at the second picture in the article.

        Torso is too short.

        I’d still be willing to piss on it.

        Edit: Looking at it again, I still think the creepiest part about it is it looks like Charlie Kirk.

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    Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.

    To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio.

    “Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” he told the Guardian.

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    It looks like dogshit. And that’s before you even consider the fact that it looks like Charlie Kirk.

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    *Man who created a cursed statue*: “This statue is definately not cursed”

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    I didn’t like the guy okay. But honestly at this point some of the shit the right has done to him seems really disrespectful.

    Like way beyond a leftist saying “charlie kirk was a racist, misogynistic grifter”

    Like what they do is well beyond discussing traits.

    It’s almost like they taxidermy-ed him (or whatever the word is) to roll him around to sell cheap shit to people who never knew who he was until he died.

    This statue. His wife’s behavior. The “pregnancy” . TPU

    It’s all so deranged.

    I don’t agree with his profession but let’s be a little honest. It was a grift. He likely didn’t believe half the shit he said. But that’s all he will ever be known for.

    Kinda sad.

    But also this “artist” sounds like a grifter themselves. Just thought they could do a cash grab.

    "I wasn’t a fan of Charlie,” he said. “Like one thing that I couldn’t stand about him while he was alive [was] when he was talking about Palestine. [Kirk would say]: ‘Oh no, Palestine doesn’t exist.’ I thought: ‘Well, this guy must be out of his mind.’”

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      I think he was a harmful hatemongerer and I am glad he is dead.

      But I agree about how off-putting it is for so many people to continue profiting off his death. They are scavengers milking a corpse for all they can. It’s not about respecting the person he was, it’s about shamelessly exploiting him for their own gain.

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        Yeah maybe “disrespectful” wasn’t quite what I meant. Your description is more with how I was thinking.

        The pure greed. Using a man’s death for personal gain at that scale.