1. Recaudación de fondos y venta de mercancía durante el servicio conmemorativo.
Numerosos comentarios expresan conmoción y disgusto por la promoción activa de donaciones y mercancía de TPUSA durante la transmisión del funeral, a través de cintillos en pantalla y mensajes de texto, calificándolo de insensible y oportunista.
- "send a text to recieve official tpusa merchandise " jesus it's a funeral. Have they no shame?
- Hell, they were promoting tpusa merchandise and soliciting donations during the "funeral" yesterday. It was literally in the scrolling chyron the entire six hours.
- "text merch to 71776 to receive a to the tpusa merchandise store." that's a real interesting choice of a heartwarming message to have in the lower third crawl during a broadcast of a funeral service.
- Motherfuckers have a goddamned chyron for the tpusa merch store during their feigned grief! proof of their lack of soul and a testament to their greed.
- First time i've seen a memorial service also serve as an infomercial, tpusa in this case. Very weird. But also on brand with maga.
2. Campañas de recaudación masivas y no solicitadas.
Varios usuarios reportan haber recibido múltiples mensajes de texto y correos electrónicos no solicitados de TPUSA pidiendo donaciones, a menudo supuestamente redactados por la viuda del fundador, lo que generó acusaciones de uso indebido de datos personales y tácticas de "grift".
- Pete, i've received three text messages from tpusa, in the past 24 hours. They are fundraising hard on kirk's death. I have never given them permission to text me. They got my phone number from somewhere else.
- In the last few days i’ve received multiple spam fundraising texts from tpusa “composed by his widow” (which is yuck on multiple levels). I’ve never received spam from tpusa before.
- Fwiw, there are three separate emails asking for donations to tpusa and some variants. Two of the three have a personal plea from charlie kirk's wife erika. Not unexpected but definitely distasteful before the man is even buried.
- I have never been on any charlie kirk mailing lists, but i got 2 text message fundraisers from tpusa and his spouse.
- If you wondering how long it would take tpusa to start fundraising off of this, i’ve gotten two texts from their team since yesterday.
3. Percepción del funeral como un evento político y no un homenaje.
Los comentarios describen el evento no como un funeral o un homenaje sincero, sino como un mitin político o un "infomercial" para TPUSA, diseñado para consolidar a un mártir para la causa y energizar a su base política.
- It was a tpusa event vaguely disguised as a memorial, cmon. You can't be this credulous.
- Hmm.a memorial service or nazi rally? was more like an infomercial for tpusa in the end, complete with chyrons soliciting donations. Now they have their martyr.
- Because the propaganda was the point, not the funeral. Nobody on stage seemed to actually care about the dude, not even his widow. They were all there to drive tpusa merch sales and distract the political base by making them rabid with hate.
- This looks more like a political rally for tpusa than a funeral. Why is it even on air cnn?
- You know you don’t have to watch someone’s memorial that you absolutely despised. There’s been funerals i attended to “make sure they were actually gone” but this craps just a campaign fundraiser.