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.
Interesting. Release the Epstein files.
Why would they?
Good, why should the EU care? This whole political scene is just US doing its best to try and escalate bad relations with EU.
Kirk is NOT A HERO
Would you say Charlie’s proposal was… shot down?
The proposal failed…by a long shot ?
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
I bet that 99% of Europeans didn’t know who this loser was.
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.
what the actual fuck?I read declined as “decided” phew…They say influencer. I say it’s Propaganda.
Oh this is brilliant!
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.”
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.
Never heard of Charlie Kirk before the big news.
Good on EU…
