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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    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.

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      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.

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          “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.

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    Maybe get a statue of Hitler and Mussolini as well, oh, dont forget Pol Pot and one of trump.

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              That Mao was a Fuck up that got more of his own countrymen killed then he did during the Civil War for starters.

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                Source: Trust me bro

                Libtards cant help rewriting history as to minimize imperialist crimes

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                  Or you can ignore Chinese history and spout the crap the CCP talks about like a ml tard

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                If Mao was a fuck up, how come China is currently raping the USA in the World Stage? His Great Leap Forward worked.

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                  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.

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          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 😔

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            Avg liberal after running out of facts.

            1. Mao liberated and unified china
            2. Mao k!lled landlords
            3. Mao prosecuted fascists, bourgeois, reactionaries
            4. Mao doubled chinas population
            5. Mao increased china’s literacy rate massively
            6. Mao made china a nuclear power
            7. Mao did important contributions to doctrine of marxism
            8. Mao supported liberation of multiple nations
            9. Mao defeated japenese imperialists
            10. Mao was a great leader of the working class, he owned liberals. Cry about it
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              Do you understand why we call you tankies? Because I feel like the tanks are a pretty big thing to ignore.

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                  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.

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                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?

                  https://youtu.be/wmVkJvieaOA