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.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      5 months 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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      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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        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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    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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    4 months ago

    No uproar. Fascists got told no by the majority.

    They can always go have a viking funeral, or sacrifice a goat, or slice their arms while ululating, or whatever the hell those people do, just not in the European Parliament.

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    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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    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?

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      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.

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    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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      Cuz christo fascism is a global scourg-I mean cance-I mean… uhhhh movement. Yea, That.

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      He was a lot more than a podcaster, he was a well-funded hatemonger leading the neoconfederate christofascist wing of MAGA.

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        That doesn’t make the point any more salient. He’s a nobody hate mongerer, not an elected political figure. Why would any government anywhere give a shit about him?

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    Good, why should the EU care? This whole political scene is just US doing its best to try and escalate bad relations with EU.

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      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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        But the hammer incident and Minnesota incident I will cherish this moment the rest of my life, where’s charlie’s grave I got a drop a deuce!!

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

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    5 months ago

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