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.

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[–] 677 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Why the fuck would EU Parliament give a shit about an American YouTuber?

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    They cause an uproar anytime they don't get what they want. Like toddlers having a tantrum. It's part of a very calculated strategy, and the sad part is, it seems to work.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I work for a major casino in Nevada. During the last campaign, we hosted both Tim Walz and Donald Trump. When Walz was here, his supporters were absolutely pleasant to have over. Polite, mature, etc. Then the Trump Campaign had their event, their supporters made it a point to go around the casino acting like immature high school kids that just attended a pep rally. It was like they were going out of their way to disrupt operations of a business that actually welcomed them in. It really exemplifies the type of absolute trash filling that portion of the American population.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm still trying to decide how much is that, and how much they just like outraging. Gets the blood pumping, y'know.

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  • [–] 104 points 1 year ago*

    He's not just a YouTuber, he's a Republican Mega-Bundler. One of the richest country's premier bagmen has been slain. How can you be so callous? It's not like he's a Palestinian or a Minnesota Congressperson or a Colorado school kid, here. He's important!

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, the GOP keeps trying to make this asshole into something more than he's not. He wasn't even part of ANY government service. Like, this clown wasn't even a local parks and rec employee of a small town.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    the GOp need something to unify the disarra-yed supporters of magats. THE MSM will just sweep this under the rug like they did with RUSH, ONCE THE NEWS cycle blows over, they did nothing of noteworthy to benefit society so they will just disappear as soon as people reorient themselves with epstein again.

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  • [–] 312 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    If the EU Parliament had to have a minute of silence for every shitty American killed by a gun, they'd never have time for anything else.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    the us has like hundreds of gun deaths every day

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    4 mass shootings this past Sunday; and 4 isn't even a 'record' day by half.

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  • [–] 172 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    As a reminder, we hanged people at Nuremberg for doing exactly what Charlie Kirk spent his whole career doing.

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  • [–] 127 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Why should they hold a moment of silence? Kirk wasn't a US official.

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  • [–] 119 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Did they hold a moment of silence when that minnesota dem senator was killed? Honestly curious if there is even precedent for them doing it even for a politician.

    I'm sure they don't hold a moment of silence every time someone in the US dies of gun violence, since they would never be able to speak...

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  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Exactly... Kirk was literally indoctrinating children into a hateful, murderous ideology. All of this praise is sickening.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Find the praise, find the sickos.

    Only a dead Nazi is a good Nazi.
    And that is more than just a slogan.
    In my mind it stems from the realization that those who don't honour the social contract forfeit any protection granted by it.
    Take it or leave it, but don't cherry-pick.
    If you hate on people and want them dead, well, guess what other people may think of your right to live?

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    he wasn't elected, he wasn't important, and after he was killed, most search traffic was asking who the fuck he was. Now he's being formed into a martyr for the Nazis.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Wait, really? Nobody knew him? I guess it makes sense: everyone knows the song but nobody knows the singer. Only in this case it's not a song, it's propaganda and indoctrination. Like how if Christopher Rufo kicked the bucket, few would know he literally invented the CRT scare.

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  • [–] 246 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    No mention of the kids killed in that school shooting.

    These people can go fuck themselves.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    You don't even have to be specific, I just inherently 'reckon there was a school shooting somewhere in the last two weeks in the US.

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  • [–] 117 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh no. Anyway release the Epstein files

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  • [–] 116 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    European here.

    I don't give a fuck about dead Nazis.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Good. Absolute shit state of affairs that so many people in this country think this ratshit motherfucker deserves to be eulogized.

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  • [–] 102 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The only reason I even knew about him was because of people mocking him and denouncing his grifting and reprehensible ideology through memes.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I was fascinated by his manlet body, pumpkin-like head, small face, and chromosomal features.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    High rate of sisterfucking among the fundies.

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  • [–] 101 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    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??

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  • [+] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Apparently, he was in Japan last week to talk with the Sanseito Party, otherwise known as Japan First.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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    Because the EU has a lot of fascist chuds in it who stand for what fuckface stood for.

    The US is speedrunning christofacism. But we aren't the only ones with a major infection.

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago

    He would be proud

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  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you’re gonna be silent for a minute every time some American is gunned to death we’d never be able to talk

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    Why would Kirk even be eligible for a moment of silence?!

    He wasn't a member of state. He wasn't even on someone's staff.

    He literally was just some guy. Not even a notable guy. Just some guy that was conservative who, AT BEST, said some controversial things.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    He literally was just some guy.

    On one hand, to Europe they were just some guy. True.

    On the other, they were the co-founder and CEO of a political influencer operation so influential that the US President and their party are doing all this crap to honor them. Kirk is responsible for radicalizing many people into real violence.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago

    But we do issue official fascist decree to lower flags to half staff for 5 days.

    Just like we did when the Democratic rep and her husband were assassinated back in June.

    Oh wait, I'm wrong, we didn't hear a single fucking thing resembling reverence from the Nazis about that terrorist attack.

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  • [–] 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why is this relevant to EU? Some US podcaster has died... Not anyone important

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Because US right-wing influences European right-wing politicians.

    But the rest who aren't paid by them won't have it, lol.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    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"

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  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 121 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    "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.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Here in Australia there's a few Trump sycophants that pull this type of stuff occasionally, or try saying "make Australia great again", and just nutters that put Trump stickers and whatever on their cars.

    The only explanation I've been able to develop is that they enjoy the reactions they get from people. In the same way siblings antagonise each other for a cheap thrill, these guys just like the feeling of antagonising people.

    Our recent election has shown that Trumpism doesn't get much love here in Australia.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It's interesting how you say this because I serve MAGAs. I'm a bartender in small town Merica.

    They're naturally good people. They care. But if politics enter into the conversation, the narrative changes.

    Many of them, when brouched with a hypothetical/reasonable question, such as, "Don't you find it interesting that if you speak online with people of other nations, they all find us shameful?" they say fuck them, 'Merica! We'd fuck them up anyway, if it came down to it.

    They want to get a rise out of the "libtards". I've witnessed them preening and delighted out of the reaction they insight.

    Once I steer the conversation, so I don't shoot my own damned self, they start complaining about prices in the same sentence they hope the tariffs will sink in and help them recover their losses.

    We are a nation being forced fed our thoughts, opinions, and ideals. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Honestly I reserve judgment on everything until (if really) we find out who killed him and why. I don’t see how this killing benefits “the left”. Feels more like a Reichstag moment. He already served his useful purpose of helping Trump get elected last year. I’ve never seen the conservatives (including previously unconfirmed conservatives) I know so riled up, calling for vengeance.

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