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 the fuck would EU Parliament give a shit about an American YouTuber?
the thing about fascists is that everything that doesn’t involve bending the knee and pledging complete loyalty and respect to fascists is a cause for uproar
remember some years ago, the far right outrage over starbucks for daring to release xmas cups that were just solid red because they weren’t jesusy enough?
these people are fucking insane cultist psychopaths
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.
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.
As Thomas Mann put it referring tothe late 1930s, they tried dicatorship of the proletariat. Now it’s dictatorship of the scum of the earth.
I’m still trying to decide how much is that, and how much they just like outraging. Gets the blood pumping, y’know.
Kirk certainly knows what it’s like when the blood’s pumping.
Not for long.
Maybe we need to do the same for anthing caving in to fascists, and write it off as “weak” when they do so. Fascists detest being called weak.
And then they have the gall to say they have thick skin and that liberals are the snowflakes. They have contempt for reality.
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!
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.
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.
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.
High rate of sisterfucking among the fundies.
Kirk’s wife didn’t look chromosomal, always surprising what attractive women the biggest chumps can attract.
It’s because she’s a Nazi too.
One could say he bore a mitochondrial burden.
He’s literally a right wing influencer, nothing else.
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?
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.
He was a lot more than a podcaster, he was a well-funded hatemonger leading the neoconfederate christofascist wing of MAGA.
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?
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.
doesn’t the us have like hundreds of gun deaths every day
4 mass shootings this past Sunday; and 4 isn’t even a ‘record’ day by half.
Which 4? I’m not doubting just checking sources as I hadn’t heard about them.
And very few of them are on record advocating for how we should not have empathy for gun victims. The right wingers whining for compassion here are dishonouring his legacy.
As an American, I laughed out loud at this one. They sure wouldn’t!
As a reminder, we hanged people at Nuremberg for doing exactly what Charlie Kirk spent his whole career doing.
🤣🤣🤣 the bros and I spent weeks quoting this, genuinely wasn’t expecting to see it here, best laugh I’ve had this week. Thank you.
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
No mention of the kids killed in that school shooting.
These people can go fuck themselves.
The outrage is the point. Don’t give them the satisfaction.
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.
Pretty sure they’re referring to the school shooting that happened on the same day.
https://apnews.com/article/colorado-high-school-shooting-3f4fc4338247a661874060e06cb16f43
I literally was not aware of said shooting, usually watching political drama around free speech and encryption, but man, that really figures.
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”
“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.
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.
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
There was no uproar, no one cares.
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
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.
European here.
I don’t give a fuck about dead Nazis.
Why not? They’re the good kind.
That is true.
I prefer my Nazis dead
I do.
A fuck of approval that is!
Good. Absolute shit state of affairs that so many people in this country think this ratshit motherfucker deserves to be eulogized.
I was out on my bike ride yesterday and one of the places I stop is next to a flagpole. The fucking flag was at half-mast for this asshole, just preposterous.
I’m downright celebrating.
Now if only uh…ALL OF THEM could die of lung rot, I’d be satisfied.
We thank you for that.
Good on the EU Parliament
