yeah the fascist can go shove baseball bats covered in barbed wire and razors up their hairy arseholes
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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
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???
it was already done at an NFL game. i think? it was already done in Congress, where (if memory serves), right-wingers didn't feel a moment of silence went far enough and demanded a spoken prayer.
edit - to clarify, done specifically for the newly dead influencer, whose name i don't care to type atm.
Fucking disgusting.
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"
Momentum for a hardcore hateful fascist?
They are pushing OTHER countries to hold vehicles WTF?!?!?!
Because US feels they are more important than they actually are, and have been trying to claw back an image of being number 1; while they prove each week, by defunding education, health and science, that they have slid backwards from world leadership
Why should anyone hold a vigil? The guy was essentially a loudmouthed pundit. A nobody. This is a cynical power grab by fascists. They try to weaponize everything. A moment of thanks and a toast to his passing would be more appropriate.
Who is this guy Kirk and why would EU Parlament hold a minute of silence? Seriosly, he is just another gun violence victim in US, not EU problem. Not even US problem, every idiot can have a gun so "you ask for it".
In a week or two, hopefully just some dead fucking nothing-knower nobody.
He was a podcaster. His death means nothing. It's manufactured hate and blame by MAGA world. What changed today from his death? Nothing.
A moment of silence, please, for the idiocy of the Trump right.
Can you please respect out influencers??
holding a vigil to someone died in the US, responsible for turning men to the right wing manosphere with rhetoric and violence. this has russian back influenced all over it, right wing groups need to shore up thier support for the voters.
"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.
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
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As a reminder, we hanged people at Nuremberg for doing exactly what Charlie Kirk spent his whole career doing.
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Why the fuck would EU Parliament give a shit about an American YouTuber?
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If they had a minute of silence for him, to be fair they'd need to have a minute of silence for every American gun death, and then they could never say anything.
At least then they couldn't pass chat control 😎
A minute of silence for every dead child in Gaza or nothing for no one.
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Pwwweeese, we need a moment of silence for
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adolf hitler's #1 follower 🥺👉👈
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Did they request a moment of silence for the children who were masacred?
Or just for the guy that preached hate?
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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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Why should they hold a moment of silence? Kirk wasn't a US official.
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