Influencer = just some guy. If he was close to you, go have your own moment of silence.
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2025
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Probably the fastest and easiest ”no” in European Parliament history.
There was no uproar, no one cares.
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.
Of course it is. Putin hates the EU and NATO, and Trump is Putin's bitch.
Interesting. Release the Epstein files.
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.
Would you say Charlie's proposal was... shot down?
Not a fuĺl throated motion.
The proposal failed...by a long shot ?
Thank you EU for not glorifying yet another Hitler wannabe! "Never Again" means just that!
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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.
He was a lot more than a podcaster, he was a well-funded hatemonger leading the neoconfederate christofascist wing of MAGA.
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.
Why would they?
Kirk is NOT A HERO
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.
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He's literally a right wing influencer, nothing else.
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?
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.
So far, it seems more likely that this guy is a groyper.
"Flawed vessel doing the lord's work," as the holy-rollers say.
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?
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Never heard of Charlie Kirk before the big news.
They say influencer. I say it’s Propaganda.
"Should we have a moment of silence?"
"Absolutely not! He was a Nazi propagandist!"
"Fair enough. Moving on...."
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.
Oh this is brilliant!
Good on the EU Parliament
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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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.
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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Why is this relevant to EU? Some US podcaster has died... Not anyone important
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Good on EU...
Turning Point and Turning Point UK are funded by the same group of people that they are.
So I'm an American. I'm not understanding when this moment of silence was supposed to happen. Usually an event or a game we care about, this might happen for someone truly influential. I was out of the know so I went to learn.
What the MEP(whatever tf they are) was asking, is that the European Parliament take a minute of silence during their Plenary.
A plenary session or plenum is a session of a conference or deliberative assembly in which all parties or members are present. Such a session may include a broad range of content, from keynotes to panel discussions, and is not necessarily related to a specific style of presentation or deliberation.
Would US congress or senate take a moment of silence for a social influencer on either side of the spectrum for any other nation?
That is a rhetorical question. Nice try, but this is only "news" on social media where nobody would have known or cared about it if someone didn't post about it.
Our own government won't even do it. Football season is starting fresh and they didn't do it. Why the fuck would another nation give a shit???
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