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.

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    No uproar. Fascists got told no by the majority.

    They can always go have a viking funeral, or sacrifice a goat, or slice their arms while ululating, or whatever the hell those people do, just not in the European Parliament.

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    We don’t care. We also would not hold a moment of silence if Joe Rogan was shot.

    He was some right-wing idiot influencer, what do you expect?

    Should we have a minute of silence if some Putin propagandist in Russia dies? Wtf why is this a topic at all?

    What’s with the Trump fd little girls on Epstein island, can we get back to that?

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    I never suspected that Charlie Kirk was deemed more important or valuable than all of those schoolchildren (past, present and future) that were killed by gun violence. I expect Solomon Grundy to cause some shit later today in this bizarro world.

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      It’s really disappointing, living here in Colorado where we had a school shooting on the same day as the Charlie Kirk thing, and seeing the people on Nextdoor gushing over the “find out” phase of a 13 year career antagonizing people, while ignoring the deaths of their neighbors children. MAGA is sick as fuck.

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    Good, why should the EU care? This whole political scene is just US doing its best to try and escalate bad relations with EU.

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      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.

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      So far, it seems more likely that this guy is a groyper.

      “Flawed vessel doing the lord’s work,” as the holy-rollers say.

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      (movie trailer voice) They made fun of liberal weenies.

      (character from movie) Universal Healthcare is only bad for insurance executives!

      (movie trailer voice) They ridiculed queer voices.

      (movie caricature of bi guy at a protest, southern U.S. accent) The Bible says Adam AND Eve, not Adam OR Eve!"

      (movie trailer voice) This summer, the Left strikes right back.

      July 4

      SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR
      [This film is not yet rated]

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        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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          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?

          You literally watched part of that happen yesterday, my dude.

          Don’t get caught up in romanticizing historical events. History books list big historical events all in one go and jump from one to another through the pages, enough to a point where one could think that something was happening every day. But we all know that wasn’t the case. Nobody writes about the weeks or months between those events where nothing happened.