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.
If they had a minute of silence for him, to be fair they’d need to have a minute of silence for every American gun death, and then they could never say anything.
“Why would anyone in Europe care?”
I think the point of it would be to signal to Trump that Europe is his vassal. Trump says it’s sad that this guy is dead, therefore Europe is sad. Doesn’t really matter who it is or what’s up. You’re just following the pledge of fealty.
So, I think it’s good that the EU decided they’re sovereign for now. This sort of thing is always an ongoing project.
Yeah, keyword is “right wing” lawmakers.
In my country at least, the far right is currently looking up to the US and sucking off Trump. Their true master is Putin, but they can’t praise Putin in public, we used to be part of the union.
Pwwweeese, we need a moment of silence for
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adolf hitler’s #1 follower 🥺👉👈
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European here.
I don’t give a fuck about dead Nazis.
Good. Absolute shit state of affairs that so many people in this country think this ratshit motherfucker deserves to be eulogized.
Why not? They’re the good kind.
I prefer my Nazis dead
I do.
A fuck of approval that is!
As a reminder, we hanged people at Nuremberg for doing exactly what Charlie Kirk spent his whole career doing.
That would be the same as if the British Parliament held a minute of silence to rever the death of Joseph Göbbels back in '45.
Fuck Kirk, he doesn’t deserve anything other than that bullet.
A minute of silence for every dead child in Gaza or nothing for no one.
If we did a minute of silence per child in Gaza murdered by the IDF maybe they would realize how bad this is
That’s months of silence.
I think the orphan-crushing machine will only stop when it’s eaten itself or has been beaten up.
Unfortunately you’re correct
Did they request a moment of silence for the children who were masacred?
Or just for the guy that preached hate?
Definitely just the guy that preached hate, they don’t care about the kids, but I am curious if they held one for the elected democratic members that were assassinated a few months prior.
There’s not even an uproar, that’s Russian fiction.
Oh no. Anyway release the Epstein files
While I agree, do you actually think it will change anything?
Nothing fundamentally. Might speed up the course we’re on but that about it.
I mean, obviously, but this still made me literally lol - like why was this even an expectation?
(I should know more about these ECRs.)If we don’t do it for “”“global”“” school mass shutting events (due to the frequency it would be very impractical), this “school shooting” shouldn’t be the case either.
Also influencers like this pos actually affect the practical liberties of freedom of speech by “shouting the loudest” from their professionally raised platforms to comparably silence minorities & their talking points.
Also, doesn’t usually Kenny get killed?
He would be proud
Why should they? He wasn’t an elected official in Europe, he wasnt a world leader or a diplomat. He was some influencer, a dirtbag that spread racism and hate for money. He was Logan Paul basically, why would a parliament have a silence for him??
Ikr? Has kirk ever even left the us?
He went to Cambridge for a debate where he got absolutely trounced.
Apparently, he was in Japan last week to talk with the Sanseito Party, otherwise known as Japan First.
I think the earlier guy was asking if he’s ever left the US because “travel widens the mind”, but when people like that leave the country, they don’t even really need to “leave the country”. A private plane, constantly driven by his own people, eating his own food, etc etc etc.
Like Trump can go anywhere in the world and still not leave his cosy little McD and Fox&Friends bubble.
Maybe once or twice, for CPAC held in Hungary.
