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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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[–] Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago

fuck that kirk idiot and the usa

[–] C1pher@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago

Interesting. Release the Epstein files.

[–] RonniePickering@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Why would they?

[–] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago

Kirk is NOT A HERO

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 26 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Would you say Charlie's proposal was... shot down?

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

The proposal failed...by a long shot ?

[–] Amonverite@lemmy.ca 32 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you EU for not glorifying yet another Hitler wannabe! "Never Again" means just that!

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Never again will we miss getting on the ground floor of growing fascism

[–] lorski@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

WHAT IN THE HELL?

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 56 points 8 hours ago (1 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.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 15 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Global bowel movement, more like.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

2000 year case of constipation.

[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 hours ago

I bet that 99% of Europeans didn't know who this loser was.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

The USA is starting to have a social justice assassin problem.

Oh no! Anyways.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

But it's the left's fault for correctly identifying fascists as fascists

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

(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]

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

(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.

[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 90 points 11 hours ago (2 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.

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 20 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

One could say he bore a mitochondrial burden.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 12 points 10 hours ago

He's literally a right wing influencer, nothing else.

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 28 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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."

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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."

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 hours ago

Permanent silence has to be better than a minute of silence, right?

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago

They say influencer. I say it’s Propaganda.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

Oh this is brilliant!

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

~~what the actual fuck?~~ I read declined as "decided" phew...

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 31 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Never heard of Charlie Kirk before the big news.

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago

Why the fuck should they hold a minute's silence for this piece of shit anyway. He was an asshole in life, he got shot for his troubles and now the far right are trying to make a martyr of him Horst Wessel style. And that includes some some fellow traveller who happens to be an MEP in this instance.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 29 points 11 hours ago

"Should we have a moment of silence?"

"Absolutely not! He was a Nazi propagandist!"

"Fair enough. Moving on...."

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago

Good on EU...

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have any idea how hard it is to organize a minute of farting?

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

Just arrange a tactical order of Taco Bell.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 hours ago

Turning Point and Turning Point UK are funded by the same group of people that they are.

[–] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 55 points 15 hours ago

Good on the EU Parliament

[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

yeah the fascist can go shove baseball bats covered in barbed wire and razors up their hairy arseholes

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Fucking disgusting.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 29 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (10 children)

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.

Crystal ball into the past

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.

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