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Yeah im gonna be blunt here, People who are seen as important, die all over the world every day, and Im having trouble drawing a line to why Charlie Kirk has fuck all to do with anything in any country in Europe.
you know, two countries that might have a reason to be upset for losing someone who WAS important to them, would be Russia and Belarus
Charlie was a nobody who got famous being racist on YouTube. Nothing else.
He deserves nothing.
Man, fuck those assholes. We have motherfuckers shooting actual political leaders this year and these dicks want a moment of silence for a podcaster?
Eat a bag of my shit, Charlie Weimers
WHAT IN THE HELL?
he is just an influencer on a foreign country, not an EU elected official or high ranked member
Not even an elected member from a foreign government (like the Minnesota democrats who were shot a couple of months ago)
I held a moment of silence, it was when I was eating and I didn't want to choke as I was listening to what happened.
Charlie would want people like me killed and he would take great joy in it. I also don't have anything to prove to his peons by expending emotional energy for him.
Just lay some flowers to the entrance of Hitlers bunker ... I think it's a parking lot now
Why would the EU Parliament give a crap about an American christofascist? Do you guys typically hold public prayers for Nazis?
Christ, this motherfucker wasn't JFK.
Shit, he's not even RFK
I wouldn't call it an uproar. More like a tantrum.
Based and anti-redpilled.
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,”
Well no, right to free speech isn't curbed here. The people are just reserving their right to kill off hypocritical dogwhistling would-be fascists.
as a symbolic measure “to declare that our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished,”
Let's celebrate our freedom of speech (which isn't even a thing in the EU) by forcing everyone to be quiet!
Most people in the real world outside of the internet didn't even know who this guy was until yesterday, especially outside the US. When I was talking to my roommate after it happened the first thing he said was "who's Charlie Kirk?"
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