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.
Very sad, folks. Very sad. Just look at what they did the new brand new statue. The thing was only just unveiled! Goodness!
They marked the neck at least.
Charlie wouldn’t want the truth washed away
That was there before
Next time they should use thermite…
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And not as dangerous as many other acids
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Counting or not counting gang vandalism?
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.
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.
Fair point, there’s no, “Black’s rule,” spay painted in front of this.
If they can write
It would be on-brand for them to do this to themselves. There never was a war on Christmas.
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.
I have been wondering if we would even be talking about Kirk if it weren’t for Owens conspiracy theories.
, 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.
Just by the responses in this thread, I don’t think it’s approaching anywhere near 40%.
40% sounds right. Not out of the question.
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.
They should leave it like this. That thing is never staying clean.
Such an American response. I love it.
Good, put it behind a fence so nobody else has to look at it.
That paint is highly washable.
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.
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He was a social media influencer, not an activist. Everything he did was for attention or profit.
I don’t cry for a man who called for the stoning of gays.
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.
I can never see this meme and not think of this…
This level of poetic justice happens so rarely.
Clip in context?
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 to hate statutory rapists is up to you.
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.
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.
Clearly, it just meant that hetro couples shouldn’t do anal.
Favorite take so far. Lol
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.
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.
Did I say I was an all knowing authority on the Bible? No I’m bringing up counterpoints. That’s how discussions work
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?
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/
[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/
[12] https://www.facebook.com/groups/467799950536561/posts/1740638269919383/
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.
He died doing what he loved, celebrating gun violence.
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!?
The right wing really want him to be their martyr
These grifters are so underhanded it’s proply one MAGA statue maker destroying another’s to get sales.
The most useful thing he ever did was die
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.
I’m so proud of him.
Yeah, he really demonstrated the ills of gun violence.
His wife agrees. But, she apparently has failed to capitalize on the event as much as she hoped to.
Not for lack of trying.
His face is far too big on his head, doesn’t even look like him.
AI slop tends to drag things toward the average appearance for what it depicts.
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Look at this nazi ass
Counting or not counting gang vandalism?
*pop*
Crazy how his neck just exploded on its own.
Maybe get a statue of Hitler and Mussolini as well, oh, dont forget Pol Pot and one of trump.
No Mao?
mao was great. Cry about it
Lol, that’s they funniest joke on this page.
what do you know about chinese revolution and chinas history?
That Mao was a Fuck up that got more of his own countrymen killed then he did during the Civil War for starters.
Source: Trust me bro
Libtards cant help rewriting history as to minimize imperialist crimes
Or you can ignore Chinese history and spout the crap the CCP talks about like a ml tard
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 😔
total sparrow destruction
Pretty sure it was delivered like that. Nothing to see here.
The statue just did that.
The pose they chose for him is throwing hats? Really?
Moving merch in life and death.
Yeah, throwing hats flamboyantly lmao
yes that exactly what he is, giving away promotional maga hats, so people will be drawn into his manoshpere.
