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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    As a reminder, we hanged people at Nuremberg for doing exactly what Charlie Kirk spent his whole career doing.

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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 we did a minute of silence per child in Gaza murdered by the IDF maybe they would realize how bad this is

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    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.

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    Why should they? He wasn’t an elected official in Europe, he wasnt a world leader or a diplomat. He was some influenced, a dirtbag that spread racism and hate for money. He was Logan Paul basically, why would a parliament have a silence for him??

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    Why would the EU Parliament give a crap about an American christofascist? Do you guys typically hold public prayers for Nazis?

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      Did they hold a moment of silence when that minnesota dem senator was killed? Honestly curious if there is even precedent for them doing it even for a politician.

      I’m sure they don’t hold a moment of silence every time someone in the US dies of gun violence, since they would never be able to speak…

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        Exactly… Kirk was literally indoctrinating children into a hateful, murderous ideology. All of this praise is sickening.

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          Find the praise, find the sickos.

          Only a dead Nazi is a good Nazi.
          And that is more than just a slogan.
          In my mind it stems from the realization that those who don’t honour the social contract forfeit any protection granted by it.
          Take it or leave it, but don’t cherry-pick.
          If you hate on people and want them dead, well, guess what other people may think of your right to live?

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        They laughed and mocked them. Insisting they were insane and got what they deserved. Even Trump said he did not call the governor to give condolences as he considered Tim Walz beneath him.

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        Id answer your question, but I have to wait until the backed up moment of silence log is complete. Were adding one every 30 seconds

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      he wasn’t elected, he wasn’t important, and after he was killed, most search traffic was asking who the fuck he was. Now he’s being formed into a martyr for the Nazis.

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        But the hammer incident and Minnesota incident I will cherish this moment the rest of my life, where’s charlie’s grave I got a drop a deuce!!

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    Kirk doesn’t deserve a minute of silence. He was a scum bag. His ideas were trash. He got what he was due.

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    The proper reason for moments of silence are as described by our late George Carling who called for one such moment for the senior citizens who all stood up on a rollercoaster on a turn and thus went flying off of it. But as he put it, why a moment of silence? How about a moment of screaming in panic? HAaaaaa! NOOOOOO! DON’T STAND UP!!! NOOOOOO! THEY DID!!! NOOOO! SPLATT!

    Later he does explain that the senior citizens were retarded. But don’t take my word for it. Google it, its hilarious!

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    Do they also hold a minute of silence ever time a single refugee is killed by their border violence or when thousands die due to European imperialism?

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      Honestly I reserve judgment on everything until (if really) we find out who killed him and why. I don’t see how this killing benefits “the left”. Feels more like a Reichstag moment. He already served his useful purpose of helping Trump get elected last year. I’ve never seen the conservatives (including previously unconfirmed conservatives) I know so riled up, calling for vengeance.

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        Yeah that’s essentially what I’m saying. They’re such fucking tools that the media amplified this to distract them from the Epstein files and it’s working just as intended. Kirk getting killed is something I’m just apathetic about and it’s not remotely close to the news that the media is making out to be, in order to distract people from the fact that they voted for and support a pedophile