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On July 17 2026 03:36 oBlade wrote:Show nested quote +On July 17 2026 03:19 dyhb wrote:On July 17 2026 02:26 Fleetfeet wrote:On July 16 2026 23:07 dyhb wrote:On July 16 2026 22:42 Jankisa wrote:On July 16 2026 22:29 dyhb wrote:On July 16 2026 22:11 Jankisa wrote:
LMAO, now dyhb is basically accusing DPB (and I'm guessing everyone else who wasn't weeping for this POS) of martyring CK, hilarious.
The "I'm centrist representing most Americans but I somehow I spend all of my time defending Trump and his policies" guy who's favorite word is hysteria is basically accusing everyone to the left of him of murdering a podcaster. It's a little on the nose to have some right-winger die in a political assassination, and a year later the only thing you can say is "an ignorant, bigoted, Christian nationalist, white supremacist podcaster." Oh, and his widow didn't care. Oh, and if you find those takes objectionable about a statue, you're definitely a Trumper. Stop being such a walking parody. I very specifically noted the things that make you a crypto right winger buddy, none of them had to do anything with your valiant defense of the racist sexist podcaster. Also I called the guy all of those things on the day of the assassination, basically because he was all of those things, with quotes. Nothing more distasteful then fake outrage, especially coming from the guy known for gleefully explaining how murdering 8 and 11 year old boys for stepping over an imaginary line is A-OK. Nothing says "valiant defense" like maybe show less visceral hate for his beliefs a year after he was martyred for them. That's like Rule #1 about political martyrs: be more like "who cares" about a statue, than anignorantbigotedChristiannationalistwhitesupremacistpodcaster + Show Spoiler +or his widow didn't care at all... or how dare you say I should give it a rest, that's asking me to cry over him!... . Wait, why? Christian Nationalism, White Supremacy and Transgender Fearmongering are pretty solid beliefs to hate regardless of who died and when. I mean yeah theoretically CK was a human with humanity at some point, but I/we never were really exposed to it. If someone is erecting a statue for CK, it's safe to assume it isn't for his humanity but for his political ideals. Seems like as good a time as any to shout them down. If Trump died, there wouldn't be a grace period where it wasn't safe to talk shit about Government Corruption. I'm not actually willing to regardless of who died and when when it's literally a statue to a guy that died, and I also regard I mean yeah theoretically CK was a human with humanity at some point as missing that point that shared humanity is shown by ourselves to others. It's an 'us' attribute, not a 'him' attribute. I also know of a person that set aside the theoretical point that "CK was a human with humanity at some point," and it was Tyler James Robinson with a rifle. It's really a core point about regarding the person as being part of shared humanity and not just a non-human/sub-human avatar of political beliefs. It ties in so deeply to why it was wrong to kill him. It's like asking the gunman to aim at the "Christian Nationalism, White Supremacy and Transgender Fearmongering," and we're all disappointed that he missed and hit Charlie Kirk's neck and killed the man instead of the other things. I could go on with whether it's "safe to assume," and art-artist distinction, and whether you can "shout them down" at a statue, and how people give away the power of their own moral conduct to others, but that's probably digressing even farther from my original point. Just let go and move on and mock the clowns if you wish. They have to keep the memory of what they think is the worst part alive otherwise there's nothing to dehumanize. Which is the whole hobby. Honestly, it's way better to let him be dead and move on instead of digging him back up again to expose all the bad views to why they're glad he's dead (which is different than saying glad he was murdered). This is a statue not a biblical resurrection. If the memory of his spirit is so odious, just mock the (future) parade of clowns and grifters that are going to embarrass themselves. They're practically guaranteed to happen and vents steam.+ Show Spoiler +Also, as kind of a side note, why attack the widow for how she displayed grief and money? Did the Westboro Baptist Church switch sides when I wasn't looking? Are we at dialogue immediately prior to David Mitchell asking, "Are We the Baddies?" I swear, there's people here who would delight in hearing Erika Kirk is dead (same bad views! grieves wrong! also anignorantbigotedChristiannationalistwhitesupremacist!), and then we can move on to how the 3 year old daughter and 2 year old son are inheriting too much money and reacting badly and all the rest. That's more of a rant and morbid curiosity into how some people work, so it's spoilered
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On July 17 2026 03:06 oBlade wrote:Show nested quote +On July 17 2026 02:45 Godwrath wrote:On July 17 2026 02:26 oBlade wrote:On July 17 2026 00:26 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On July 17 2026 00:21 dyhb wrote:On July 16 2026 23:56 Gorsameth wrote:On July 16 2026 23:55 dyhb wrote:On July 16 2026 23:13 Jankisa wrote:
By all extents and proposes he was "martyred" because a guy who was dating a Trans girl was fed up by him constantly shitting on Trans people. The key element is actually killing the guy because you thought his speech was so hateful towards trans people. I have enough shared humanity in my perspective to not feel the need to shit on his beliefs a year after he was murdered for them. It's a statue, not the Charlie Kirk Memorial Act for Transgender Exclusion and Establishing Religion. Why? Do his beliefs become less shit after a year? Hopefully you can call it a shitty Charlie Kirk statue and not a anignorantbigotedChristiannationalistwhitesupremacistpodcaster statue after he's been dead a year. I never said the statue was those things. I said that Charlie Kirk was those things. Because he was. And he will forever be known as those things, just like how Hitler was a Nazi and how Trump is a rapist and fascist. We don't stop describing people accurately just because they die or have a statue erected in their honor. Charlie Kirk is one of your Big Three with Hitler and Trump? Why'd this artist Sergio Furnari not go in for a Hitler statue then, any knowledge of that? Or any guesses? (Remembering who brought this up.) I gotta admit i just felt bad for you. I am not sure what's worse in this case: your inability to read and understand such a simple argument where it's pretty clear that no one is comparing Charlie to Hitler, or the possibility that you are doing it on purpose, wasting your time writing such utter nonsense as a comeback. Either way answering you is like beating a baby seal. It's just sad because of how stupid your argumentative skills are. I'm pretty sure for DPB Charlie Kirk is a lot closer to Hitler than he is to DPB. Either way, you aren't DPB.
I have no Big Three. Hitler and Trump were just two other easy examples of the point I was making.
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On July 17 2026 03:00 Jankisa wrote:The funniest part of this is how shitty the statue looks: Well, that and the fact that the artist and our resident clowns all reacted very similarly to people pointing out the shitty nature of the subject and / or the statue. Edit: Oh god, just red this guy's wiki page. It's like a timeline of someone's brain being broken by COVID and right wing politics. The dude gained prominence with a genuinely cool statue: He then has a short stint making one for first responders and such, couldn't find the image, but in 2025 he re-emerges to celebrate another shit person: It's really fun to see how your artistic ability seems to fade along with empathy when the right wing spiral occurs.
Oh god, really? I saw the first picture and thought that looked just as deadeyed and miserable as the CR7 statue. And then two photos down it turns out it's the same guy. It explains why I was instantly reminded of it, but the real question is why anybody is paying any attention to this hackjob of an "artist"?
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As with so many others, seems like the case of "lost relevance and turned to controversy", this latest one seems very much on the nose, but also, as you can see from the usual suspects losing their shit it's also working.
This guy will be on Joe Rogan before the end of the month.
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On July 17 2026 04:37 Acrofales wrote:Show nested quote +On July 17 2026 03:00 Jankisa wrote:The funniest part of this is how shitty the statue looks: Well, that and the fact that the artist and our resident clowns all reacted very similarly to people pointing out the shitty nature of the subject and / or the statue. Edit: Oh god, just red this guy's wiki page. It's like a timeline of someone's brain being broken by COVID and right wing politics. The dude gained prominence with a genuinely cool statue: He then has a short stint making one for first responders and such, couldn't find the image, but in 2025 he re-emerges to celebrate another shit person: It's really fun to see how your artistic ability seems to fade along with empathy when the right wing spiral occurs. Oh god, really? I saw the first picture and thought that looked just as deadeyed and miserable as the CR7 statue. And then two photos down it turns out it's the same guy. It explains why I was instantly reminded of it, but the real question is why anybody is paying any attention to this hackjob of an "artist"?
Because he makes MAGA stuff so they promote the hell out of them. If you are a d level celeb or artist and want some easy clicks and money just throw your hat in the MAGA crowd.
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So wait, Trump is talking about the 2020 election tonight? WTF, I thought maybe the Iran war, or inflation, or even immigration, but no he still stuck on pretending he won?
How people support this selfish moron is beyond me.
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On July 17 2026 06:23 Billyboy wrote:
So wait, Trump is talking about the 2020 election tonight? WTF, I thought maybe the Iran war, or inflation, or even immigration, but no he still stuck on pretending he won?
How people support this selfish moron is beyond me.
I mean, yeah, it is somewhat funny that he seems to be stuck on that and that he just can't seem to deal with having lost that election, but on the other hand it is also his transparent excuse to fuck with future elections.
Because if that election was tampered with, surely we need more "protections" to prevent that from happening again. And since any result that isn't Trump winning is proof of election fraud, we need to put system ins place to make sure that Trump wins.
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More of a question for oBlade than anyone else,
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I'm processing this as another egregious example of self-dealing corruption and should be quickly reversed if anyone in that orbit has a clue. The guy who promised to drain the swamp made his own, grew it bigly, and did it openly. Do you disagree with anything I've said there?
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On July 17 2026 06:37 Simberto wrote:Show nested quote +On July 17 2026 06:23 Billyboy wrote:
So wait, Trump is talking about the 2020 election tonight? WTF, I thought maybe the Iran war, or inflation, or even immigration, but no he still stuck on pretending he won?
How people support this selfish moron is beyond me. I mean, yeah, it is somewhat funny that he seems to be stuck on that and that he just can't seem to deal with having lost that election, but on the other hand it is also his transparent excuse to fuck with future elections. Because if that election was tampered with, surely we need more "protections" to prevent that from happening again. And since any result that isn't Trump winning is proof of election fraud, we need to put system ins place to make sure that Trump wins.
But the mushroom brains already believe it, I can’t imagine Trump speaking on this, well presenting zero evidence, is going to convince anyone with working brain cells.
I have hope he will ad lib, that always leads to some hilariously embarrassing clips
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There was a prominate conservative that was killed last year, and a prominate liberal with her husband and dog killed last year.
One side is acting a lot more crazy about it than the other. Minnesota is probably going to get the statue and the building named after her after this election, the other keeps trying to grift and virtue signal over it.
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On July 17 2026 06:23 Billyboy wrote:
So wait, Trump is talking about the 2020 election tonight? WTF, I thought maybe the Iran war, or inflation, or even immigration, but no he still stuck on pretending he won?
How people support this selfish moron is beyond me.
Cost of living? Iran War? Epstein files? Any of the other campaign promises? Naw, just more blubbering because Trump is still mad about the election he lost because he fucked the country entirely of his own volition when he fired the pandemic defense team right before a pandemic.
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On July 17 2026 07:33 Sermokala wrote:
There was a prominate conservative that was killed last year, and a prominate liberal with her husband and dog killed last year.
One side is acting a lot more crazy about it than the other. Minnesota is probably going to get the statue and the building named after her after this election, the other keeps trying to grift and virtue signal over it.
You don't have to pretend a state lawmaker, whom very few that live outside that state would have ever heard of, is close to the prominence of an infamous, shock-jock political commentator that ran a multimillion dollar national nonprofit in hundreds of colleges and high schools. Or that murder for (hateful) political speech has the impact as a guy that said Democrat Tim Walz told him to kill Democratic Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith.
You're right on all the grift and shit. You're wrong on the two different playing fields.
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On July 17 2026 00:26 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On July 17 2026 00:21 dyhb wrote:On July 16 2026 23:56 Gorsameth wrote:On July 16 2026 23:55 dyhb wrote:On July 16 2026 23:13 Jankisa wrote:
By all extents and proposes he was "martyred" because a guy who was dating a Trans girl was fed up by him constantly shitting on Trans people. The key element is actually killing the guy because you thought his speech was so hateful towards trans people. I have enough shared humanity in my perspective to not feel the need to shit on his beliefs a year after he was murdered for them. It's a statue, not the Charlie Kirk Memorial Act for Transgender Exclusion and Establishing Religion. Why? Do his beliefs become less shit after a year? Hopefully you can call it a shitty Charlie Kirk statue and not a anignorantbigotedChristiannationalistwhitesupremacistpodcaster statue after he's been dead a year. I never said the statue was those things. I said that Charlie Kirk was those things. Because he was. And he will forever be known as those things, just like how Hitler was a Nazi and how Trump is a rapist and fascist. We don't stop describing people accurately just because they die or have a statue erected in their honor.
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On July 17 2026 06:37 Simberto wrote:Show nested quote +On July 17 2026 06:23 Billyboy wrote:
So wait, Trump is talking about the 2020 election tonight? WTF, I thought maybe the Iran war, or inflation, or even immigration, but no he still stuck on pretending he won?
How people support this selfish moron is beyond me. I mean, yeah, it is somewhat funny that he seems to be stuck on that and that he just can't seem to deal with having lost that election, but on the other hand it is also his transparent excuse to fuck with future elections. Because if that election was tampered with, surely we need more "protections" to prevent that from happening again. And since any result that isn't Trump winning is proof of election fraud, we need to put system ins place to make sure that Trump wins.
Not exactly clear how Democrats would/will/are dealing with the possibility that the 2026 and/or 2028 could be rigged (like a carnival game) in favor of Trump.
Anyone paying any attention to the process to replace Platner?
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I find it strange that 2 elections ago was rigged, by China, but then the Dems fixed it so Trump could win. I mean that is super honest, and clearly they care more about fairness and the constitution than winning. Very un swampy. Trump makes a great argument on why, if you care about getting rid of corruption and fairness, vote dem.
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