Omg. Please let this happen. Not because I care about Charlie. No, he was a racist asshole who reaped the rewards if his own rhetoric.
No no. I just want a sculpture to try and figure out how close he should make Kirks eyes. Knowing that someone had to actually objectively think about that makes me feel all warm and tingly on the inside.
We could have something that transcends this.
Charlie Kirk is not deserving of a bust as good as this. I’m not being sarcastic.
Except maybe it could dispense drinks from it’s neck hole.
Make it a fountain at least
That one already looks a lot like him, they can just use it.
That would be recycling, which is woke. They’ll need it manufactured by slaves in saudi arabia to ensure its not woke.
Oh yeah. Totally normal to throw up a statue before the bodies cold.
This doesn’t matter at all. Release the Epstein files.
and the yahoo emails from epstein
Would it not be better to have monuments to ideals instead of people, who can be flawed, idolized? …asking for a friend
We have those too. Justice with her blindfold, scales, and sword as well as lady liberty with her woke poem claiming we want huddled masses yearning to be free. Hell, even our obsession with our founding documents fits in that category
My friend asks further, are they set in front of buildings named for the aforementioned flawed people? Thus giving credence to an entire life as opposed to the goodwil at the end, exemplis Carnegie, Morgan, Westinghouse, Gates, etc.
The statue of liberty is in the middle of the Hudson Bay (named after it’s discoverer, James Hudson) on an artificial island built for it.
Lady Justice is found all over, largely in front of governmental buildings.
The bronze bull is a symbol of capitalist growth found on wall street (named after a type of stone barrier that once existed at that location) in front of the New York Stock Exchange building (named after it’s location and purpose).
You aren’t wrong that many monuments to concepts are outside buildings named after complicated people. But a lot of the iconic ones aren’t. The Atlas of Rockefeller square is iconic but it’s iconic in that it is art at a location associated with the profession done in the building behind it. It’s seen as a symbol of television production not a symbol of New York or the abstract concept of mass media. Chicago’s art deco definitely has a lot of statues in front of buildings named after people but they aren’t iconic to the point that it’s hard to think of a statue or monument as iconic to Chicago as the statue of liberty, the Hollywood sign, the liberty bell, or the space needle, none of which are associated with people’s names.
Really it’s mostly DC filled with monuments to people that are actually iconic. I like the Albert Einstein monument. It isn’t popular or convenient but that just means it isn’t overdone. Just statue to honor a scientist and pacifist activist.
My friend appreciates your honesty, but asks why the news coverage is about slaver and oppressor monuments instead of ideals?
Because those are the controversial ones. Everyone more or less likes the statue of liberty. Its been around for a very long time and it’s downright cliche to talk about it. Nobody wants it removed.
Alternatively every few months the statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus, Ohio outside the state legislature gets vandalized. A lot of people that live there resent that their home is named after a man who committed genocide.
In the south statues of confederates often serve as proxies for ideals. Their maintenance is a symbol of heritage and rebellion (and sometimes racial dominance) to their supporters and their removal is a symbol of progress, equality, and improvement to those who wish them removed. But the reality of these being people makes it messier. And yeah it’s controversial so its news.
Like, nobody is looking to tear down the space needle. It’s a symbol of space age progress and the city of Seattle. It’s not newsworthy, you won’t hear much about it, because it’s just there.
Which brings me back to my initial query? Why idolize people instead of ideals?
Hope his statue looks absolutely ridiculous. Like it’s based off the edits of the man with an extra tiny face
Those are actually just pictures of him.
They are REALLY fucking itching for their Horst Wessel.
Gross, but yeah, you’re right.
I will only support this if its also a fountain.
Best I can do is a urinal
Remember kids, fascists need a martyr & will happily make their own if needed.
A statue to pedo-protector Charlie Kirk, friend to pedos the world over, and beloved by all pedos?
Shooting a statue in the neck in honour of his propaganda success.
You have a statue of MLK because he deserved it.
You should not get a statue for Kirk for the same reason that there is no statue of Joseph Göbbels in Berlin.
DC does need more public restrooms
They want to add a gender neutral bathroom? I thought they hated those.
This is the martyr they wanted for whatever reason to finally roll out their next phase. He’ll be used to lock up/kill anyone that says anything negative about the administration. They’re treating this nazi like he was jesus fucking christ.
Umm, they were already kind of doing that
We’re going 120 mph into fascism and then Charlie is killed and they go “now you’ve done it! This is a turning point!!” and increase the speed to 130 mph.
Dealing with conservatives is an endless sequence of “this is common sense, but how does that relate to Trumpers?”
This is a turning point!!
Some might even say it’s a Turning Point USA!
::Dons sunglasses with one hand to an opening song from The Who::
