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.
fuck that kirk idiot and the usa
Good, why should the EU care? This whole political scene is just US doing its best to try and escalate bad relations with EU.
Interesting. Release the Epstein files.
Why would they?
Kirk is NOT A HERO
Would you say Charlie’s proposal was… shot down?
The proposal failed…by a long shot ?
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
WHAT IN THE HELL?
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.
Global bowel movement, more like.
2000 year case of constipation.
I bet that 99% of Europeans didn’t know who this loser was.
The USA is starting to have a social justice assassin problem.
Oh no! Anyways.
(movie trailer voice) They made fun of liberal weenies.
(character from movie) Universal Healthcare is only bad for insurance executives!
(movie trailer voice) They ridiculed queer voices.
(movie caricature of bi guy at a protest, southern U.S. accent) The Bible says Adam AND Eve, not Adam OR Eve!"
(movie trailer voice) This summer, the Left strikes right back.
July 4
SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR
[This film is not yet rated](movie trailer voice) They thought making fun of people trying to do the right thing was funny and cringe, until those people started to show more spine and action than anybody else.
But it’s the left’s fault for correctly identifying fascists as fascists
Do we act now, or wait until the fascism gets more powerful: When is the turning point in history; when will citizens will choose to observe their own responsibilities?
Do we act now, or wait until the fascism gets more powerful: When is the turning point in history; when will citizens will choose to observe their own responsibilities?
You literally watched part of that happen yesterday, my dude.
Don’t get caught up in romanticizing historical events. History books list big historical events all in one go and jump from one to another through the pages, enough to a point where one could think that something was happening every day. But we all know that wasn’t the case. Nobody writes about the weeks or months between those events where nothing happened.
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.
He’s literally a right wing influencer, nothing else.
They say influencer. I say it’s Propaganda.
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.”
Permanent silence has to be better than a minute of silence, right?
what the actual fuck?I read declined as “decided” phew…
