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New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2026
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Charlie Kirk was an “activist” in the same way that Horst Wessel was an “activist” - which is to say that the regime picked him up as a mascot after he got ganked, so the regime could get some blood on their flag and say “look what they did to my boy 😭”.