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New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy (www.theguardian.com)
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Furnari said he did not agree with Kirk on “certain issues”.

“I wasn’t a fan of Charlie,” he said. “Like one thing that I couldn’t stand about him while he was alive [was] when he was talking about Palestine. [Kirk would say]: ‘Oh no, Palestine doesn’t exist.’ I thought: ‘Well, this guy must be out of his mind.’”

Instead, Furnari said he made the statue in an effort to “glorify and to exercise the first amendment, this freedom of speech” – although at points during the conversation, Furnari also said he made it to support Charlie Kirk’s wife; to “glorify democracy”; and to “commemorate a person”.

He later added: “Why am I making the statue? The same reason why Michelangelo did the Pietà, or Michelangelo did the David, or Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. Why? Just to commemorate a moment, you know, a person.”

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[–] sober_monk@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fucking amateur hour. Set up a paintball booth with it, 5 bucks per shot. Make a video of people shooting at the statue, post it everywhere, get money from views. Then, get a friend to raise funds to get the booth taken down (make up some bullshit about legal expenses). Disappear with the money.

This is just one idea. If I had a Charlie Kirk statue and the morals of this guy, I'd make 100,000 dollars in a week. Seriously, how can you be a sculptor with this little creativity?

[–] 100@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

paintball booth? not a real range?

[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

You'd see less lasting returns having people fire real bullets at it. You could run the paintball thing for years.

[–] iltoroargento@startrek.website 3 points 4 days ago

It would have to cost more per shot to break even, but I'd be down for either.

[–] sober_monk@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Let kids in on the fun!