Right-wing lawmakers pushed for a tribute to the U.S. conservative influencer who was shot dead.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Thursday rejected a bid by right-wing factions to hold a minute of silence for slain U.S. conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
The initiative was first proposed by Charlie Weimers, an MEP from the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), as a symbolic measure “to declare that our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished,” according to an email chain with dozens of MEPs that was seen by POLITICO.
We don’t care. We also would not hold a moment of silence if Joe Rogan was shot.
He was some right-wing idiot influencer, what do you expect?
Should we have a minute of silence if some Putin propagandist in Russia dies? Wtf why is this a topic at all?
What’s with the Trump fd little girls on Epstein island, can we get back to that?
Probably the fastest and easiest ”no” in European Parliament history.
I never suspected that Charlie Kirk was deemed more important or valuable than all of those schoolchildren (past, present and future) that were killed by gun violence. I expect Solomon Grundy to cause some shit later today in this bizarro world.
It’s really disappointing, living here in Colorado where we had a school shooting on the same day as the Charlie Kirk thing, and seeing the people on Nextdoor gushing over the “find out” phase of a 13 year career antagonizing people, while ignoring the deaths of their neighbors children. MAGA is sick as fuck.
There was no uproar, no one cares.
fuck that kirk idiot and the usa
Why would they? He’s a frickin podcaster, not some virtuous political figure gunned down doing their duty to the public. He was paid to be at an event to promote himself and his agenda.
Cuz christo fascism is a global scourg-I mean cance-I mean… uhhhh movement. Yea, That.
Why would we care in Europe about a fascist US citizen dying on his own soil? He’s just some random dude for us. More concerning are the murders of school children and the Epstein files.
The only reason I even knew about him was because of people mocking him and denouncing his grifting and reprehensible ideology through memes.
I was fascinated by his manlet body, pumpkin-like head, small face, and chromosomal features.
One could say he bore a mitochondrial burden.
Interesting. Release the Epstein files.
You’d have better luck standing on your roof and yelling at random people in red hats that the 80 year old man who is also a convicted felon likes to party with all of the rich people on a private island (probably doing horrible things to men, women & children) and his “friends” can use .00005% of their wealth to make your online presence null and your life a miserable hell.
Good, why should the EU care? This whole political scene is just US doing its best to try and escalate bad relations with EU.
Thank you EU for not glorifying yet another Hitler wannabe! “Never Again” means just that!
Never again will we miss getting on the ground floor of growing fascism
Would you say Charlie’s proposal was… shot down?
The proposal failed…by a long shot ?
Kirk is NOT A HERO
The far right, or even the normal right (who I believe to be idiots anyway) are completely silent with regard to the hundreds of kids killed by armed assailants in US schools.
That’s because of people like Charlie; who take advantage of people’s ignorance and good will.
His closed end debate style is designed to sedate critical thinking. Example; his response to, “how many trans shooters?” was “too many”. He just plays on peoples morals and preconceptions.
The audience he retains are people who’ve been conditioned by the church to surrogate their faith in god with a human pastor. In this way Charlie cultivates an audience that loves trump based on what Charlie tells them about trump.
I’ll never forget my sister telling me in Dec 2024, how Trumps policies would be the best thing for the USA, because Charlie kirk is “prolific in economics”. Her brain literally broke when I asked her to explain why she thought that.
Exactly. Prompt the other party to exercise the smallest amount of critical thought and you can watch it all unravel. It’s fucking exhausting, but that’s what it takes.
I once heard someone drop some nonsense in a conversation about how “San Francisco is a dirty place.” Not only is “city = dirty” a common right-wing trope, but it had zero place in our conversation. It was just kinda parroted nonsense ham-fisted into our dialogue. I simply replied: “I’ve been to silicon valley and the touristy parts of downtown, and what I saw was a nice clean place; I can’t speak for the rest of it.” The guy stopped for a sec and said “well, I haven’t been there myself so I guess I can’t either.”
Yes! We’re arguing with people who literally don’t form their own opinions. That’s why they projects so hard that “the left is brain-washed.”
If you’re gonna be silent for a minute every time some American is gunned to death we’d never be able to talk
Good on the EU Parliament
