Why the fuck would EU Parliament give a shit about an American YouTuber?
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2025
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He's not just a YouTuber, he's a Republican Mega-Bundler. One of the richest country's premier bagmen has been slain. How can you be so callous? It's not like he's a Palestinian or a Minnesota Congressperson or a Colorado school kid, here. He's important!
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If the EU Parliament had to have a minute of silence for every shitty American killed by a gun, they'd never have time for anything else.
the us has like hundreds of gun deaths every day
4 mass shootings this past Sunday; and 4 isn't even a 'record' day by half.
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@MicroWave why would the EU want to hold a minute of silence for an enemy of everything it stood for? Seems a bit odd.
Because the EU has a lot of fascist chuds in it who stand for what fuckface stood for.
The US is speedrunning christofacism. But we aren't the only ones with a major infection.
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As a reminder, we hanged people at Nuremberg for doing exactly what Charlie Kirk spent his whole career doing.
We don’t silence for klan members.
Why would Kirk even be eligible for a moment of silence?!
He wasn't a member of state. He wasn't even on someone's staff.
He literally was just some guy. Not even a notable guy. Just some guy that was conservative who, AT BEST, said some controversial things.
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But we do issue official fascist decree to lower flags to half staff for 5 days.
Just like we did when the Democratic rep and her husband were assassinated back in June.
Oh wait, I'm wrong, we didn't hear a single fucking thing resembling reverence from the Nazis about that terrorist attack.
Why should they hold a moment of silence? Kirk wasn't a US official.
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...
Exactly... Kirk was literally indoctrinating children into a hateful, murderous ideology. All of this praise is sickening.
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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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"Why would anyone in Europe care?"
I think the point of it would be to signal to Trump that Europe is his vassal. Trump says it's sad that this guy is dead, therefore Europe is sad. Doesn't really matter who it is or what's up. You're just following the pledge of fealty.
So, I think it's good that the EU decided they're sovereign for now. This sort of thing is always an ongoing project.
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A minute of silence for every dead child in Gaza or nothing for no one.
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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Why should they? He wasn’t an elected official in Europe, he wasnt a world leader or a diplomat. He was some influencer, 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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Did they request a moment of silence for the children who were masacred?
Or just for the guy that preached hate?
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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Why would we care in Europe about a fascist US citizen dying on his own soil? He’s just some random dude for us. More concerning are the murders of school children and the Epstein files.
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If you’re gonna be silent for a minute every time some American is gunned to death we’d never be able to talk
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Why is this relevant to EU? Some US podcaster has died... Not anyone important
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“Lets us all be distracted so the peons will forget how many pedos are ruling the world”
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Why would they? He's a frickin podcaster, not some virtuous political figure gunned down doing their duty to the public. He was paid to be at an event to promote himself and his agenda.
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Pwwweeese, we need a moment of silence for
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adolf hitler's #1 follower 🥺👉👈
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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.
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Good on the EU Parliament
Oh noes. Anyway, I found the bugger that fell from my nose yesterday.
Why the fuck would Europe hold a minute of silence for that piece of shit? He was a Trump mouthpiece, the same Trump that is fucking up economic relationships and who is basically enabling Putin.
Why should anyone hold a vigil? The guy was essentially a loudmouthed pundit. A nobody. This is a cynical power grab by fascists. They try to weaponize everything. A moment of thanks and a toast to his passing would be more appropriate.
There's absolutely no reason for any body of government, anywhere in the world, or anyone to hold a minute of silence for Charlie Kirk. He's done nothing of value to humanity or mankind.
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Why even legitimize this "uproar" by publishing an article about it? Who cares about their faux outrage?
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He was a podcaster. His death means nothing. It's manufactured hate and blame by MAGA world. What changed today from his death? Nothing.
Fuck Kirk, he doesn't deserve anything other than that bullet.
Kirk doesn't deserve a minute of silence. He was a scum bag. His ideas were trash. He got what he was due.
Its outrageous enough how the usa is treating him like a saint, good for the EU for not doing the same
holding a vigil to someone died in the US, responsible for turning men to the right wing manosphere with rhetoric and violence. this has russian back influenced all over it, right wing groups need to shore up thier support for the voters.
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
Thank you EU for not glorifying yet another Hitler wannabe! "Never Again" means just that!
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Never heard of Charlie Kirk before the big news.
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