Why not add a wax figure of Kirk, wearing exactly what he wore that day?
Bonus: you could have another figure molded in pose of the moment when he was shot? “Yes, now you can experience Charlie’s exact moment of martyrdom!”And you know what? There would be a line.
Hook it up to a hose and squirt fans with blood through a hole in his neck!
AI slop isn’t AI slopping for once
The face is way too proportional tho
Oh man it could be like a gwar concert!
🤘
I commented almost the same thing before reading this 🤦.
shit, i might visit that
Gwar has taught me that people love being sprayed with blood.
The four-day event, called “America Fest”
More like Whitoid Fest where not only the fundies come in but also closet Nazis and Kluxers.
The modern day Horst Wessel.
Wow, that’s completely tasteless. You would think that’s what the murderer would want to see and visit. Good job guys.
you know, before that troll gurgled his last slur the term “getting kirked” was more likely to mean you’re being fucked by a spaceship captain.
I like the new meaning instead.
I guess “penetrated by something that isn’t good for your health” is the common denominator
Prove me wrong, LOL.
Is this meant to be a recreation of that specific scene? Or was it just meant to be a recreation of his normal setup when doing these?
Can’t say for certain… it’s almost like there’s … there’s these things. A bunch of them, just underneath the headline. Words and sentences in a smaller yet similar font which appear to be related to that very headline. They might even explain the situation in further detail…
Idk tho… I can’t read, so I can’t say for certain if these things are indeed related. You’d better ask chat GPT for an article summary, just to be sure.
Love the snark. The thing Lemmy needs the most is less engagement. So keep up your bullshit!
Second, I read the article, and nowhere did it mention if it was intentional. Which was the question. So maybe you need a lesson in reading comprehension.
I’m on the side where quality of comments > quantity of comments, but I do see how big data numbers via mindless engagement could have a similar kind of value. No relevancy to the article, however. I digress.
The first paragraph has the information you seek. If missed, fear not! It is mentioned at least one other time in the article (hint: look for the interview with the event staff). Good luck, and Godspeed! o7
At no point in the first paragraph does it say it is intentionally supposed to be a recreation of his death scene. It is mentioned throughout the article that the author and MS Now reporter that that’s what it is.
Now, where I am most dumbfounded by your comment is the fact that THERE IS NO INTERVIEW WITH THE STAFF. Did you misinterpret a report by a MS Now reporter as an interview with event staff?
I can’t believe you’re the one giving me shit. You gotta do more than look at the words. Comprehension is important too.
Well given that specific scene occurred in his normal setup it’s the same thing?
Like the car JFK was sitting in when he was assassinated is not just a normal car after that event.
OK, but if they considered his set up to be iconic during his life, then it’s not fair to say that they should never be able to reference it again just because some terrorist murdered him in it.
I certainly hate this dude, but I think there’s a big difference between saying “take your photo at a recreation of his assassination” and “we’re reclaiming this symbol as a celebration of his life”.
I just feel that things and places are tainted by horrific events that are associated with them, even if there’s a much more vanilla history.
As an example, the park at Bondi Beach in Australia where there was recently a terrorist massacre. It will always be the place where that happened, not the place where 10s of thousands of picnics were had.
Yes you can say that Kirk’s tent is a celebration of his life and his passion, but lots of people will find that to be in poor taste.
Everything about these people is creepy and weird. Before this guy died, I didn’t know who he was, but if I had I would have thought that making a living going to universities and manipulating people into signing up to this ideology was creepy and weird. His wife weirds me out too.
I get it. I just think that if it happened to somebody I liked, I would want to preserve the positivity of their life. Treating the iconic scene as a permanent tragedy is letting the terrorists win.
To be fair, people are paying for cross necklasses after their last religious leader died on one…
Still weird though. I like the hbomberguy phrased it; ‘how do people know I’m part of the jesus fan club if I’m not repping his holy merch??’
That sentence from hbomberguy is a work of art.
It’s a death cult. Makes sense for them to have a shrine to death.
Why
Literally why
I can’t
I don’t have the energy for this right now
They actually evil. It’s that simple. We’re brought up to think humans have innate morals that ultimately prevail. Some just don’t have it. The current president has shone a light on this. Unfortunately right and wrong has to be taught.
Because money. Someone thought “oh I can make money doing this”. It’s all they care about. Money
I feel like Charlie Kirk should be nominated for a Darwin award. Dude literally campaigned for guns, said it was Ok that some people die from gun violence and then got shot while sitting under a tent labelled “prove me wrong”.
It didn’t prove him wrong, it just made him one of the “some people.”
he had children
EDIT: which means he cannot get the Darwin award. this is not defending him.
I mean, maybe. Depends on when JD got his couch nob in there.
I’m a parent too, and that’s exactly why I am glad his disgusting voice was silenced in the most public and ironic way possible.
Sorry for ambiguity, I meant this in the context of Darwin award
Ah yeah good edit, I wasn’t even considering that you could have meant it that way.
I decided to go look up the rules in order to contribute something more useful to this discussion, and it turns out that the mere presence of offspring does not disqualify one from the award!
Given their reasoning, I think Kirk would qualify. And given that his whole brand was about spreading stupid dangerous ideas to everybody’s kids including his own, and then he died in a spectacularly ironic and public way, I think he should actually win one!
So did John Wayne Gacy, what’s your point?
Charlie Kirk’s comment about “some gun deaths being necessary” was in response to a comment about school shootings involving small children, wasn’t it? I don’t remember exactly, why don’t you look it up yourself?
Darwin award is for people who make themselves unable to reproduce.
I need to edit the comment in order not to sound like I’m defending him.
Yeah sorry I’m just used to people immediately jumping to defend this guy and make any negative comment about him illegal
no problem, I didn’t think enough before posting
Everyone always screws that up. The Darwin award doesn’t just mean the person died from their own stupidity, it means they did the world a favor and removed themselves from the gene pool before passing on their genes. By that note, people who are unable to reproduce also cannot be eligible for the award.
Money was vacuumed from the gullible, of course it was there.
Maga is so god damn weird. Its exhausting
I read this 3 times as Magic is so good damn weird before my morning brain clicked
I have a similar problem when people refer to MTG
That said I wish someone would drop Royal Assassin on Trump
“And Charlie Kirk would have been sitting right here when he was shot in the fucking neck.”
That is fucking ghoulish.
