Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollars

To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio.

“Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” he told the Guardian.

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      It’s so funny to see a grifter crash out like that. Ah we need more of this. Legit thinking of edging grifters into unsustainable businesses might be the highest return meme of this decade.

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        I heard the main reason people didn’t want to buy this is that it doesn’t adequately reflect Charlie Kirk’s towering stature in the world. If he made a 100-foot-high version in gold, Elon Musk told me he’d personally pay billions for it.

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      It’s also just objectively a horrible statue. The body proportions are just awful. You can tell he’s spent 90 percent of his time and effort on the head and just draped the body in baggy clothing to hide his work.

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        Hey, give the man a break. It may be a terrible, ugly sculpture of a nasty, hateful man but he only wants a few million dollars for it. It probably took him days to make!

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      “People are cheap” is something you say when someone tries to haggle a 90% discount on your like-new dresser that you listed for an already cheap $40 on craigslist. It is not something you say when someone fails to buy your statue of a person who was human garbage, made out of actual garbage, for 1000% return on your already bullshit overinflated supposed cost of 100k for like $200 in materials and your (apparently) very precious time and effort. You’re cheap dude, and an idiot. Get a commission first and make an actual sculpture out of actual sculpting materials (clay, stone, metal, even fucking plaster) instead of spray painting a cotton t shirt and some Levi’s, dude. Your time is worthless when this is the outcome.

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      I think what he meant is nazis are cheap.

      The rich ones can spend money on elections that buys them power, but they absolutely will not waste their money on statues.

      Other nazis are really really cheap.