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.
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.
He’s literally a right wing influencer, nothing else.
The only reason I even knew about him was because of people mocking him and denouncing his grifting and reprehensible ideology through memes.
Never heard of Charlie Kirk before the big news.
“Should we have a moment of silence?”
“Absolutely not! He was a Nazi propagandist!”
“Fair enough. Moving on…”
Momentum for a hardcore hateful fascist?
yeah the fascist can go shove baseball bats covered in barbed wire and razors up their hairy arseholes
Trump is going to find out soon how ANTIFA the world really is.
Imagine the world boycotting the US?
Of course, Russia won’t be able to help because that will give up the ghost between Trump and Putin. And Putin will have the last laugh as the old Soviet counter to capitalism comes to fruition.
Keep in mind this man defected and is pushing Western anti socialist propaganda.
His theory of social manipulation is what is important in this video.
That video is AMAZING!
The MAGAs are just doing exactly what the Russians want. Everything this guy predicted is coming true. EVERYTHING!
Yup, this video is from the late 80s I believe.
This is the machine having its eggs come home and roost.
This is what all good people should decry from the top of our lungs.
Governments and big money keep us under their thumb and it’s about time the masses wake up and unite against these monsters.
Trump has main character syndrome. Nobody cares. So many people get murdered all the time, why is this guy special? He has a YouTube channel?
Everyone knows what’s going on.
Good on the EU Parliament
So I’m an American. I’m not understanding when this moment of silence was supposed to happen. Usually an event or a game we care about, this might happen for someone truly influential. I was out of the know so I went to learn.
What the MEP(whatever tf they are) was asking, is that the European Parliament take a minute of silence during their Plenary.
A plenary session or plenum is a session of a conference or deliberative assembly in which all parties or members are present. Such a session may include a broad range of content, from keynotes to panel discussions, and is not necessarily related to a specific style of presentation or deliberation.
Would US congress or senate take a moment of silence for a social influencer on either side of the spectrum for any other nation?
That is a rhetorical question. Nice try, but this is only “news” on social media where nobody would have known or cared about it if someone didn’t post about it.
Our own government won’t even do it. Football season is starting fresh and they didn’t do it. Why the fuck would another nation give a shit???
it was already done at an NFL game. i think? it was already done in Congress, where (if memory serves), right-wingers didn’t feel a moment of silence went far enough and demanded a spoken prayer.
edit - to clarify, done specifically for the newly dead influencer, whose name i don’t care to type atm.
They are pushing OTHER countries to hold vehicles WTF?!?!?!
A moment of silence, please, for the idiocy of the Trump right.
If you’re gonna be silent for a minute every time some American is gunned to death we’d never be able to talk
It is more newsworthy the few days someone isnt being gunned down in the USA really
Why is this relevant to EU? Some US podcaster has died… Not anyone important
Because US right-wing influences European right-wing politicians.
But the rest who aren’t paid by them won’t have it, lol.
It’s only ever the European far-right, it’s not even all of them and most of the ones which are influenced by America are pretty selective about what they take in because most of that shit in Europe is seen as seriously retarded shit even amongst the far-right here (for example, religiousity doesn’t land well nowadays unless you’re talking about really backwards places like Hungary, outside maybe the UK, nobody gives a shit about the ideas of the transphobes and there is zero support for the kind of gun ownership laws the US has).
Sure, some shit does leak, but the fully packaged message from people like Charlie Kirk would just not work anywhere around here.
My bet it that it was a handful of total unknowns amongst the European Far-Right who maybe get money from American sources (some European Far-Right parties were created with the money Bannon brought some years ago very openly to “create far-right parties in Europe” and I would be surprised if certain American interests had stopped buying such politicians in Europe) that suggested this and the others just went along with it.
When it, naturally, failed miserably to gain traction beyond that handful of obscure politicians, the newspaper owned by Germany’s very own Murdoch-clone then described the reaction to that refusal by the overwhelming majority of the EU parliament to do it, as an “Uproar”
Who is this guy Kirk and why would EU Parlament hold a minute of silence? Seriosly, he is just another gun violence victim in US, not EU problem. Not even US problem, every idiot can have a gun so “you ask for it”.
In a week or two, hopefully just some dead fucking nothing-knower nobody.
Why should anyone hold a vigil? The guy was essentially a loudmouthed pundit. A nobody. This is a cynical power grab by fascists. They try to weaponize everything. A moment of thanks and a toast to his passing would be more appropriate.
He was a podcaster. His death means nothing. It’s manufactured hate and blame by MAGA world. What changed today from his death? Nothing.
