Its outrageous enough how the usa is treating him like a saint, good for the EU for not doing the same
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Never heard of Charlie Kirk before the big news.
Yeah im gonna be blunt here, People who are seen as important, die all over the world every day, and Im having trouble drawing a line to why Charlie Kirk has fuck all to do with anything in any country in Europe.
you know, two countries that might have a reason to be upset for losing someone who WAS important to them, would be Russia and Belarus
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Man, fuck those assholes. We have motherfuckers shooting actual political leaders this year and these dicks want a moment of silence for a podcaster?
Eat a bag of my shit, Charlie Weimers
"Should we have a moment of silence?"
"Absolutely not! He was a Nazi propagandist!"
"Fair enough. Moving on...."
Trump is going to find out soon how ANTIFA the world really is.
Imagine the world boycotting the US?
Of course, Russia won't be able to help because that will give up the ghost between Trump and Putin. And Putin will have the last laugh as the old Soviet counter to capitalism comes to fruition.
Keep in mind this man defected and is pushing Western anti socialist propaganda.
His theory of social manipulation is what is important in this video.
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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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he is just an influencer on a foreign country, not an EU elected official or high ranked member
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fuck that kirk idiot and the usa
Just lay some flowers to the entrance of Hitlers bunker ... I think it's a parking lot now
There's not even an uproar, that's Russian fiction.
Who is this guy Kirk and why would EU Parlament hold a minute of silence? Seriosly, he is just another gun violence victim in US, not EU problem. Not even US problem, every idiot can have a gun so "you ask for it".
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So I'm an American. I'm not understanding when this moment of silence was supposed to happen. Usually an event or a game we care about, this might happen for someone truly influential. I was out of the know so I went to learn.
What the MEP(whatever tf they are) was asking, is that the European Parliament take a minute of silence during their Plenary.
A plenary session or plenum is a session of a conference or deliberative assembly in which all parties or members are present. Such a session may include a broad range of content, from keynotes to panel discussions, and is not necessarily related to a specific style of presentation or deliberation.
Would US congress or senate take a moment of silence for a social influencer on either side of the spectrum for any other nation?
That is a rhetorical question. Nice try, but this is only "news" on social media where nobody would have known or cared about it if someone didn't post about it.
Our own government won't even do it. Football season is starting fresh and they didn't do it. Why the fuck would another nation give a shit???
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Kirk is NOT A HERO
Charlie was a nobody who got famous being racist on YouTube. Nothing else.
He deserves nothing.
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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?
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?
I wouldn't call it an uproar. More like a tantrum.
Based and anti-redpilled.
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.
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.
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.
They say influencer. I say it’s Propaganda.
I bet that 99% of Europeans didn't know who this loser was.