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.
I mean, obviously, but this still made me literally lol - like why was this even an expectation?
(I should know more about these ECRs.)If we don’t do it for “”“global”“” school mass shutting events (due to the frequency it would be very impractical), this “school shooting” shouldn’t be the case either.
Also influencers like this pos actually affect the practical liberties of freedom of speech by “shouting the loudest” from their professionally raised platforms to comparably silence minorities & their talking points.
Also, doesn’t usually Kenny get killed?
No mention of the kids killed in that school shooting.
These people can go fuck themselves.
The outrage is the point. Don’t give them the satisfaction.
You don’t even have to be specific, I just inherently 'reckon there was a school shooting somewhere in the last two weeks in the US.
Pretty sure they’re referring to the school shooting that happened on the same day.
https://apnews.com/article/colorado-high-school-shooting-3f4fc4338247a661874060e06cb16f43
I literally was not aware of said shooting, usually watching political drama around free speech and encryption, but man, that really figures.
He would be proud
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.
Charlie was a nobody who got famous being racist on YouTube. Nothing else.
He deserves nothing.
Sir, don’t besmirch racists like that. Kirk was a proud Nazi. Not all racists are Nazis, some are just idiots.
Lol
Why would they?
Good on the EU Parliament
Would you say Charlie’s proposal was… shot down?
The proposal failed…by a long shot ?
Not a fuĺl throated motion.
That would be the same as if the British Parliament held a minute of silence to rever the death of Joseph Göbbels back in '45.
Glad the magat infection hasn’t gotten to them at least
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 😎
yeah the fascist can go shove baseball bats covered in barbed wire and razors up their hairy arseholes
No lube !
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
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”
