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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.
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Should have just painted the neck tbh
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.
What is the intent for the straw horse other than to be burned?
“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.”
The irony that he is now immortlized as “brown”.
Tarnishing Charlie Brown and everyone just going to let him feel like crap.
Has to go along with the loser generals and their loser flags.
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.
Yeah he just looks like a generic white reply guy. Of course, that is what he was in reality.
He died doing what he loved, celebrating gun violence.
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.
“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.
His wife agrees. But, she apparently has failed to capitalize on the event as much as she hoped to.
Not for lack of trying.
Love the neck paint
He wasn’t a Nazi, He just said a bunch of egregious stuff that people who hate Nazis hate
He was a social media influencer, not an activist. Everything he did was for attention or profit.
Isnt it supposed to look like that?
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
If Mao was a fuck up, how come China is currently raping the USA in the World Stage? His Great Leap Forward worked.
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.
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
Go back to .ml where you belong
Avg liberal after running out of facts.
- Mao liberated and unified china
- Mao k!lled landlords
- Mao prosecuted fascists, bourgeois, reactionaries
- Mao doubled chinas population
- Mao increased china’s literacy rate massively
- Mao made china a nuclear power
- Mao did important contributions to doctrine of marxism
- Mao supported liberation of multiple nations
- Mao defeated japenese imperialists
- Mao was a great leader of the working class, he owned liberals. Cry about it
Do you understand why we call you tankies? Because I feel like the tanks are a pretty big thing to ignore.
Because you are capitalist imperialists. Do you think I care?
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.
About the tanks? You ought to.
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.
- You always ignore that Japan did a genocide on China. You looooove Japan. Asian Israel, literally.
- You ignore that the British got them hooked up with drugs just to make money.
- You ignore that the Great Leap Forward was done to catch-up with developed countries.
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.
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Damn, that’s a lot of assumptions about my beliefs based on absolutely jack shit.
Today I learned that I
- am American
- love Japan
- think Muslims and Arabs are “genetically evil”
- support what Trump is doing in Iran (nay, am personally committing those atrocities myself)
- am racist toward Mexicans
- hate China
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?
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Look at this nazi ass
Saved!
it’s weird that his statue just did that.
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 told 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.
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.
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.
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.
