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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      Definitely just the guy that preached hate, they don’t care about the kids, but I am curious if they held one for the elected democratic members that were assassinated a few months prior.

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    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.

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    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?

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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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        Apparently, he was in Japan last week to talk with the Sanseito Party, otherwise known as Japan First.

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          I think the earlier guy was asking if he’s ever left the US because “travel widens the mind”, but when people like that leave the country, they don’t even really need to “leave the country”. A private plane, constantly driven by his own people, eating his own food, etc etc etc.

          Like Trump can go anywhere in the world and still not leave his cosy little McD and Fox&Friends bubble.