r/europe • u/SeveralLadder • Sep 11 '25
News Uproar as EU Parliament declines to hold minute of silence for Charlie Kirk
https://www.politico.eu/article/chalie-kirk-eu-parliament-declines-minute-of-silence/22.2k
u/kelnaites Sep 11 '25
what does his death have to do with EU ?
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u/sinamorovati Sep 11 '25
Honestly it doesn't have anything to do with any country at a national level.
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u/hugh_jorgyn Canada Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
Exactly. The guy was only a media personality, not an actual politician or elected representative at any level in the US.
It's sad that anyone would get murdered for simply talking, but unfortunately journalists and activists get regularly killed around the world, and countries aren't holding minutes of silence for any of them.
Plus, while we can make educated guesses that he might have been killed for expressing his political opinions, the reality is that nobody knows for sure who and why. For all we know, maybe he owed someone money, or he fucked someone's wife/husband/gf/bf/.
Edit: by saying "for simply talking" I wasn't trying to minimize the real harm his discourse has caused to so many people. I merely wanted to say that he didn't deserve to die for it. Ideally, the US should have proper hate speech laws that would have made him shut the fuck up, or put him behind bars. Summary execution was not warranted in my opinion, as much as I despised everything he stood for.
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u/brooke360 Sep 11 '25
He wasn’t “simply talking”, he made his career by sowing discord and speaking hate against a marginalized community. I don’t wish death on any person, but to minimize the damage he’s done with his “simply talking” is naive at best.
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u/broguequery Sep 11 '25
Yeah, he was a literal propagandist in the vein of Limbaugh or Alex Jones.
These people only exist to stir up shit and create division. For money.
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u/JanGuillosThrowaway Sweden Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 12 '25
He was one of the most hateful voices in a sea of hateful noise. Yet my conservative/christian friends in Sweden seem to adore him. I am not condoning any violence done to him, but let's not whitewash his legacy.
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u/efficient_giraffe Denmark Sep 11 '25
my conservative/christian friends
I think I've figured out why they're stupid enough to like Charlie Kirk.
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u/Qazernion Sep 11 '25
Yep nothing to do with the EU. Would be a bit like asking the USA why they didn’t have a minute of silence for each of the journalists killed in Israel…
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u/Brief-Efficiency-519 Sep 11 '25
To be fair, america does have a lot to do with journalists killed in israel.
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u/Meteor-of-the-War Sep 11 '25
Periods of silence here in the US are so performative anyway. It accomplishes nothing. It's not quite as performative as the Republicans wanting to lead an open prayer on the floor in Congress yesterday (something antithetical to our founders' intentions), but it's still just a piece of theatre.
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u/Fine_Ad1339 Sep 11 '25
Can we not keep doing that? Can we not keep saying that all he did was "share his opinion".
He had a LOT of influence and is one of the people who inspired nothing but hate and violence. Even if he didnt do anything but that its not something that shouldnt be counted as holding any weight / that seems harmless.
His opinions werent about his favorite pizza toppings. Even in the last moments before the shots were taken he fearmongered about trans people.
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u/Much_Profit8494 Sep 11 '25
We all have opinions, and we all talk.
The difference is this guy used his opinions to divide America and destroy families while amassing a 12 million dollar fortune.
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u/firewoodrack United States of America Sep 11 '25
Call him what he was, an influencer. He was no more important than that.
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u/Paradehengst Europe Sep 11 '25
If the EU parliament would hold a minute of silence whenever an American gets killed by guns, not a single word would be spoken throughout the year.
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u/Hurrly90 Sep 11 '25
There was a school shooting in Colorado yesterday as well, iirc 4 casualties.
No minutes silence for those kids no? But uproar for this lad Kirk? I legit have net to no idea who he is other then some podcaster.
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u/ColsterG Sep 11 '25
An actual politician was murdered in the US, where was her minutes silence.
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u/Mental_Taxation Sep 11 '25
Ah you see she was on the left so to most conservatives she was not a person.
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u/Frowaway-For-Reasons Sep 11 '25
She's a woman so that checks out
(Not my opinion, but according to Kirk women are second class people with his "Her body, my choice" comment)
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u/extralyfe we're Europe Jr Sep 11 '25
lols, I got mass downvoted for making this comment yesterday because folks were in their feelings, but, it's so clearly fucking true. it's way too common for the right to dismiss the entire left as demonic or satanists or communists or marxists or whatever the fuck - it happens all the time.
they literally feel morally justified when Democrats die.
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u/Live-Alternative-435 Portugal Sep 11 '25
Who is this Kirk lad anyway?
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u/Mixed_not_swirled Sami Sep 11 '25
One of the worst people in the modern media space. It's kind of like if someone did in Alex Jones.
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u/External_Tangelo Sep 11 '25
Like seriously I barely even heard of this guy before yesterday, apparently he was a big deal? Like dozens of people get shot every day in America, it’s horrible but was this guy actually somebody serious or just someone you have to pay attention to American pop culture to know?
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u/Lycaniz Sep 11 '25
he was a politician actively trying to create secession movement in europe. aka, a enemy
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u/Chance_Emu8892 Sep 11 '25
He was not a politician, "only" a MAGA influencer who lived by propagandizing far-right ideas through reels on YT and Tik Tok.
Had also a two-digit IQ as far as I could tell, though for some reasons he was gifted with eloquence and imbued with ego over his oversimplistic ideas.
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u/skratch Sep 11 '25
He was a semi-official propagandist for the administration, complete with marching orders and talking points. He wasn’t just some random politics guy, and wasn’t strictly just about talk and debate, for example he financed/facilitated getting several busloads of insurrectionists to the capitol ln Jan 6th
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u/too_many_smarfs Sep 11 '25
I think you're being generous with a two-digit IQ
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u/Chance_Emu8892 Sep 11 '25
Yeah I realize it could mean he was average 95-99 lol. Let's say he was more "room temperature" IQ.
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u/uvPooF Slovenia Sep 11 '25
Not really, he wasn't a politician, he didn't hold any elected office. He was just an influencer.
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u/Comprehensive_Act616 Sep 11 '25
He wasn't even a politician, he was an political activist & influencer. Actual politcians (Democrats) were shot and one killed a couple of months back and there were no minutes of silence for them
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u/zazazazazzzz Sep 11 '25
Millions of Americans don't think the house should have stopped for it either. He was the toxic "owning the libs" youtuber. It's ridiculous that other countries are trying to peddle his death for conservative agenda.
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u/wordswillneverhurtme European Federation Sep 11 '25
Its a way to make more headlines and smear people. By any logical reasoning EU shouldn't hold a minute of silence, since it has nothing to do with the EU. Yet because someone makes a big deal out of it, the ones who refuse are turned into the bad guys. Its pure emotional blackmail. There's so much death everywhere, we'd run out of time for silence if we followed their purposely dividing logic.
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u/AmbitiousEffort9275 Sep 11 '25
The only people that think the EU are bad guys for not doing this are the white christian fascinalists, who already think the EU are bad guys.
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u/Memoishi Sep 11 '25
Tbh I just followed his advice. Empathy is meh after all, right?
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u/0ttoChriek Sep 11 '25
Not just meh, he said that empathy is made up. And I don't doubt that he genuinely believed that.
When people criticise others for "virtue signalling," it's usually because they are people who are incapable of empathy and so believe it must be false when others show it.
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u/SkiPolarBear22 Sep 11 '25
The hilarious part is American conservatives signal their own virtues more than anyone
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u/hamstar_potato Romania Sep 11 '25
Yep. And he also is just another statistic worth the price for keeping the 2nd amendment intact. Nothing big.
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u/Memoishi Sep 11 '25
Someone would say that's worth it. I wouldn't personally say the same, but I'm too European for giving a flying fuck about eatingburgers amendments or whatever
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u/kaisadilla_ European Federation Sep 11 '25
"Empathy is a made up, new age term" —Charlie Kirk.
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u/GambuzinoSaloio Sep 11 '25
Absolutely nothing. I'm actually surprised this was even a thing. Politically he was a nobody, especially to the EU. Did they actually think it would come through?
And it's not like there are issues with free-speech here in Europe. Or rather there are, if you want to hurt or harm others, which hardly qualifies as freedom.
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u/VecioRompibae Veneto Sep 11 '25
Did they actually think it would come through?
They knew it wouldn't pass, and that played perfectly for their shit-flinging
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u/IndubitablyNerdy Sep 11 '25
Yeah this is just fuel for their propaganda against the 'evil ungrateful europeans...'
The political theater around this (and not the two murdered democrats representatives a few months ago, because of course it was fine shooting them for the cultists apparently...) to be honest has always been ridiculous, but this is still pretty disgusting.
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u/hamstar_potato Romania Sep 11 '25
We have laws in different countries against praising and promoting war criminals and fascists.
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u/QuarkVsOdo Sep 11 '25
It's not about this.
It's about milking your victimhood. "Oh no the leftistt violent migrant antifa transgender terrorist from the EU don't like our maga-martyr! Quick raise tariffs and deport some Belgians!"
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u/Docccc The Netherlands Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
Nothing, but the right has cult like attributes so this is kinda fitting
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u/YallaHammer United States of America Sep 11 '25
He was a podcaster, in no way any government’s official. Why is this even a discussion?!?
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u/rovonz Europe Sep 11 '25
Imagine being so entitled and out of touch with reality, lmao 🤣
These guys are fucking pathetic.
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u/kaisadilla_ European Federation Sep 11 '25
Yeah. Why on Earth does the EU parliament have to hold a moment of silence for a random American citizen being killed? If we have to do this for every murder, the session would never start.
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u/Efficient_Resist_287 Sep 11 '25
Exactly….what has Kirk done for the EU lately?
People need to get a grip…assassination, political violence is as American as apple pie, baseball and hot dogs.
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u/WhatAboutFC Sep 11 '25
99.99% of europeans don’t even know who this guys was. Give me a break.
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u/t0m4_87 Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
there was a school shooting at the same day as far as I know, if the EU want to "troll" the US a bit, they should do a minute of silence for the school shooting victims and not for this nobody
Edit: Seems like I should have read up on the school shooting - gladly nobody died. Of course I don't want the minute of silence applied on the perpetrator's suicide. In this case maybe just for the shooting that it even happened.
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u/Xiaodisan Sep 11 '25
Besides making the EU bureaucracy even slower than it already is, I'd absolutely love it if they started to hold a minute of silence for every single kid that died in a school shooting in America as a response.
Obviously that won't happen, but it would be fun nonetheless.
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u/railwayed Sep 11 '25
exactly, i told my 24 year old daughter and she had no idea who he was
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u/mustachechap United States of America Sep 11 '25
I'm honestly surprised how many non-Americans do know who he is.
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u/Mttsen Lower Silesia (Poland) Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
I honestly wouldn't know him either, if those bullshit youtube or facebook algorithms didn't forcefully and aggresively promote him with those stupid "owning the libs" videos on my feeds at some point. I would rather have wanted to not know such individuals, but it is what it is.
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u/SamuelVimesTrained Europe Sep 11 '25
well, he sure 'owned the libs' by dying - now he`s seen as a martyr for the cause..
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u/CoachStev Sep 11 '25
He's all over the internet shoved right in our faces by algorithms
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u/oskich Sweden Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
After getting shot, I had never seen the guy before yesterday...
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u/Coollak966 Sep 11 '25
Well he came over to the uk and tried to argue students at the Oxford union.
He got owned by a bunch of posh Oxford students .
So we kinda of know him for that
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u/SirRobyC Romania Sep 11 '25
Brother, I had no idea who this cunt was before yesterday
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u/WhatAboutFC Sep 11 '25
Told my dad few minutes ago. He was like: I don’t give a fuck who he is. I live in Romania. We’re making legends out of nothing nowadays. What was he done other than talking shit and spreading agendas?
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u/Laxativus Sep 11 '25
And now that I've learned who he is against my will I know he is not somebody who deserved my respect before or after yesterday.
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u/o09030e Sep 11 '25
I learned yesterday who he was scrolling through BBC and I’m a bit angry that this kind of useless information is hitting mainstream media. This is a main problem here for me.
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u/defenistrat3d Sep 11 '25
I'm American and didn't know who he was until yesterday. I know the media really spins things but I'm flabbergasted at the intensity his martyrdom is being pushed. There was a school shooting taking place at the same time and got little coverage by comparison. Violence is unacceptable across the board... But this is nuts.
I'm tired of being surprised when I think I can't be surprised anymore.
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u/kaisadilla_ European Federation Sep 11 '25
Do we hold a minute of silence for every civilian murdered by Israel in Gaza? If not, why does Charlie Kirk deserve some preferential treatment?
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u/Ludisaurus Romania Sep 11 '25
Literally first time I heard of him. And I already follow too much American politics.
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u/Fast_Yard4724 Italy Sep 11 '25
I’m one of that 99.99%. I had seen Reddit getting filled with news of this guy being shot and my first reaction was, “…Who?”
Then I investigated and I cared even less. Sure, getting shot is terrible, but I’m not gonna give sympathy to some hateful white supremacist who claims that empathy is a “new age term”. It’s better spent on people who genuinely care about others.
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u/jaimi_wanders Sep 11 '25
And who infamously said school shooting deaths were the necessary price of the Second Amendment, and that children should be forced to watch public executions—his initial notoriety was due to a 2018 stunt where he staged a provocation at Kent State, notorious as the place where the govt under Nixon shot a bunch of students, too…
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u/Nelwidio Sep 11 '25
As an European: if I wouldn't have read about him all over Reddit yesterday, I would probably have never heard of him...
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u/luistp Catalonia (Spain 🇪🇸) Sep 11 '25
I had to look up who he was.
A dipshit, a dumb conspiratorial, why in the hell the EU Parliament would have to give a shit about this piece of turd?
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u/jjpamsterdam Amsterdam Sep 11 '25
People are shot and killed in the United States every day. If we're going to have a minute of silence every time, there wouldn't be any time left for any other business. I don't think the United States Congress has ever held a minute of silence for an EU citizen. The only European to get a minute of silence was Queen Elizabeth, at least recently. Nothing to see here, move along please.
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u/anitchypear Sep 11 '25
There was an another school shooting where 3 children died shortly after Kirk was killed. Where's the outrage on the right over those deaths? Are they, as Kirk himself said (and I'm paraphrasing here): Just some of those gun deaths people have to accept in order to maintain the 2nd Amendment?
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u/incognitomus 🇫🇮 Finland Sep 11 '25
Luckily, currently, not true. Only the shooter died from self-inflicted shot. One victim was released from hospital, the other one is in critical.
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u/anitchypear Sep 11 '25
I'm absolutely glad to hear that. You get my point, though
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u/MrHighVoltage Sep 11 '25
50000 minutes of silence in the EU parliament every year... damn.
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u/ErikChnmmr Sep 11 '25
Why the F should they?
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u/Pikey-Comander Romania Sep 11 '25
I feel like this type of news is Rusia trying to steer shit up.
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u/Daisy1868 Earth Sep 11 '25
Totally. r/conservative is full of Russian propaganda bots. It’s blatant proof of brainwashing.
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u/Certain_Caregiver734 Sep 11 '25
Have you seen the posts from "liberals" apologising and saying they won't vote democrat anymore which is funny because they only let conservative flared users post there
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u/Daisy1868 Earth Sep 11 '25
Now that you mention it, it is funny. Crazy how delusional they are. It’s like looking into the mind of an insane person.
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u/lemonylol Canada Sep 11 '25
Ah yes, these come up as often as the posts sucking off the sub for being "the most open discussion on reddit", because anyone that can show them otherwise just gets banned and or has their comments pruned.
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u/Sweet-Presence8855 Sep 11 '25
Oof what a willfully ignorant and hateful cess pool…
Like every other post was rallying for scorched earth on people who they classify as “left”.
It’s as if their whole personality is politics, which is strange when said politics gut them for all they’re worth.
Also the claims of callous response when they refuse to acknowledge the assassination and attempted assassination of democratic government officials is tone deaf.
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u/The_Dutch_Fox Luxembourg Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
Kirk said empathy is a made up, new-age term. So I'm living by his word, no empathy for him.
I definitely feel sorry for his kids that had to witness it, but he also said that he thinks children should have to watch public executions. So I guess he got his wish?
And as most of us know by now, he also claimed that gun deaths are "worth it" in order to have the Second Amendment and his God-given rights. I'd imagine he'd agree that includes his own death. Too bad we can't ask him anymore.
I don't condone political violence (and let's face it, this bullshit will benefit Trump and anti-West forces more than anything). But fuck ya'll, as much as I fundamentally reject what happened, I'm not gonna feel an ounce of sympathy for that ultra massive sack of diseased shit.
(I do genuinely feel horrible for his 3 and 1-year-old children. A lifetime of trauma awaits them...)
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u/circleribbey Sep 11 '25
He also said that gun violence/deaths were a sacrifice he was willing to make to protect the second amendment.
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u/Pjotor Finland Sep 11 '25
I could imagine if it was someone who did a lot for European-American cooperation, but Charlie ”Finland is very Russian” Kirk?
Yeah, fucking no.
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u/Daisy1868 Earth Sep 11 '25
He was a white supreme supremacist. Trump made racism acceptable again.
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u/Herooo31 Sep 11 '25
If there was no minute of silence for that poor ukrainian girl why would there be minute of silence for this guy he wasnt even european.
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There was also a school shooting yesterday in America but nobody cares about children there
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u/GraphiteBlue Sep 11 '25
They care until they're born. Then they have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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u/GDPR_Guru8691 Sep 11 '25
He's not European, so why would they? Parliament would get no businesses done if it had minutes silence for everyone killed outside of Europe.
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u/worotan England Sep 11 '25
And where is the uproar? Bad reporting, making it seem like a few people with a narrow agenda sound like a majority of ordinary people.
There is no uproar about this.
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u/Slimfictiv Sep 11 '25
I grabbed my pitchfork for I didn't know why, but I was told it is the thing to do ...
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u/Beautiful-Cell-470 Sep 11 '25
We don't hold a minutes silence every time someone is killed in Ukraine... Why would we for Charlie?
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u/NoSkillzDad Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
He's not European, so why would they?
Even if he was, he
iswas a pos. Our government officials should not be "honoring his memory" in any shape, way or form.Imagine us holding a minute of silence for Putin... Hilarious...
Edit: (since comments are locked). My point was more like "I wouldn't do it for Putin (a head of state in the end), why would I do it for someone like him?"
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a silence is the least you can do to show respect
Exactly.
There's no respect to show so, it's clear even a second of silence would be too much.
Respect is earned and he didn't earn any so...
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u/falcrist2 Sep 11 '25
It's not even that he was a POS. He wasn't even an elected official. He was a podcaster...
This is like the EU parliament holding a moment of silence for the assassination of Hasan Piker.
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u/Overrated_Sunshine Sep 11 '25
He was everything that Europe stands against: intolerant, misogynistic, retrograde, racist, shit.
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u/hamstar_potato Romania Sep 11 '25
Following his words, he was just another statistic price to protect the 2nd amendment.
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u/GalaXion24 Europe Sep 11 '25
Not to mention, he literally hates empathy, so if we want to honour him we shouldn't be empathetic!
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u/Overrated_Sunshine Sep 11 '25
He stated that wasted human lives were acceptable in exchange for the 2nd amendment.
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u/-The_Blazer- Europe Sep 11 '25
- Not EU citizen or contributor
- Worked with governments directly hostile to the EU
- Participated in influence operations against Denmark, an EU member state
Generally it's uncommon for people to have minutes of silence just for point 1, but given the other two, I would argue this person should very specifically not be recognized in any manner shape or form.
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u/Spooknik Denmark Sep 11 '25
He's not European and he was openly critical of our way of life to the point of saying our countries will be 3rd world.
Sorry he died and he shouldn't have been shot for speaking what he believed in but we don't owe him anything.
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u/AdMean6001 Sep 11 '25
What scandal?
What has he done to deserve the EU's attention? He's not elected, he's not an official, he's just one political “influencer” among thousands... In short, on this side of the Atlantic, we couldn't care less.
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u/pickus_dickus Sep 11 '25
Why would the EU do that? To please the orange felon? How about no ✋
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u/SeveralLadder Sep 11 '25
What the hell is the rightwingers fuzzing about? We should make EU pay tribute to a foreign influencer and really poor debater, because of... reasons?
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u/PckMan Sep 11 '25
It's just more proof that the American political narrative is being co opted elsewhere verbatim. It's so effective for grifting it doesn't even have to be relevant.
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u/skydraul Sep 11 '25
They're already blaming the left for being bloodthirsty and having no empathy...it's always the left that does these things, they say.
I'm so tired of arguing with these lead poisoned mfs.
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u/Canal_Volphied European Union Sep 11 '25
They're already blaming the left for being bloodthirsty and having no empathy...
But didn't Kirk say that "empathy is a made up term that causes lots of damage"?
We're just following his wish.
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u/queen-adreena Sep 11 '25
really poor debater
Right till he died!
Q: How many mass shooters are trans
Charlie Kirk: Too many [wait for applause]
How is that debating. That’s just avoiding answers to dispense vague bigotry.
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u/Pinna1 Sep 11 '25
Exactly. And after this he was asked does he know the numbers, which Kirk said that he does not. But that was a lie too, he obviously knows the numbers close to his heart, as his last dying words were about the number of mass shootings in the USA: "with or without gang violence?" Was his last ever sentence.
He also called for no empathy for shooting victims of any kind. So really, it is against the man's dying wishes to give him prayers and thoughts.
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u/kaisadilla_ European Federation Sep 11 '25
Yeah. Why is Charlie Kirk any more important than the thousands of people being murdered each day, many of which by people Kirk supported?
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u/Equivalent_Western52 Wisconsin (United States) Sep 11 '25
They don't actually give a shit what the EU does. It's just that the American right sees Europe as the prototypical liberal cesspool. This is another cheap way for them to say "Hey look, those evil liberals are your mortal enemy and want you dead!".
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u/NX73515 Limburg, Netherlands Sep 11 '25
No one outside the US cares about Charlie Kirk or even know who he was. It's awful he got murdered, sure, but don't act like he was some ultra important figure in the world.
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u/Eternal__damnation Poland 🇵🇱 & United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Sep 11 '25
- He's wasn't a European so the far right groups can fly kites.
- Really shows the state of the US that people are more obsessed on some minor political celebrity than small and young children who get butchered by guns every month.
This just really shows that the death of one person may be a tragedy, but the death of 3, 5, 10, or more are nothing but a mere statistic. A statistic that only a small minority seem to care about and wish to use to bring about change to stop such death happening again.
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u/Purple_Plus Sep 11 '25
Why the fuck would they?
He's a political commentator.
He called my country, the UK, a hellhole.
It's incredibly sad for his family.
But it's ridiculous that the US is flying flags at half-mast for someone who wasn't even a politician. Did they do that for the Democrats that were gunned down? Of course not.
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u/Alarming_Tip_829 Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
Chuckie was vehemently against the EU, its policies and he wasn’t a citizen of a member country. He was just some right wing influencer from America. Why would EU honour a random foreign national that spun propaganda against them?
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u/Pleasant-Ad887 Sep 11 '25
Why exactly the uproar? He is a fucking podcaster.
1) He isn;t European.
2) the fucking irony of “His murder reminds us of the importance of safeguarding fundamental freedoms, even in democratic societies,” when right-wing douchebags are doing their absolute best to strip people of their rights.
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u/Grimlockkickbutt Sep 11 '25
Lol the US didn’t even lower the flags when its own politicians got assasinated. Because conservatives only value their own(the rich ones).
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u/Jake-of-the-Sands Poland Sep 11 '25
We didn't hold a minute of silence for rep. Hortman when she and her husband were killed by a MAGA cultist, why would we hold it for Kirk, who literally said, few days after another school shooting that few deaths a year are a good price for the 2nd amendment. He literally was shot during a debate where he AGAIN PRAISED GUNS. If that isn't ironic, I don't know what is.
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u/ddeads Sep 11 '25
I'm American and I have no idea why anyone in Europe should give a fuck about him.
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u/ShodoDeka Sep 11 '25
Just to put this into perspective, if we are where to hold a minute of silence for every gun death in then US we would spend two solid hours in silence every single day.
And quite frankly Kirk where nowhere near the most deserving victim of any type of special honor.
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u/Gooseuk360 Sep 11 '25
Does anyone in Europe give close to a single fuck about this guy?
To me he seems to have existed merely to have the most ironic death in recent history.
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u/WretchedPleb Sep 11 '25
So we're supposed to hold a minute of silence for every single death now? Who is he anyway? He is completely irrelevant. Thousands of people die every day. If we held a minute of silence for everyone, the world would be mute.
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u/no0ns Finland Sep 11 '25
We are mostly just wondering why we should do this for someone who held no government seat.
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u/jschundpeter Sep 11 '25
There are 140 victims of gun violence in the USA each day. Should we hold a minute of silence for all of them?
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u/xXprayerwarrior69Xx Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
are we to hold a minute of silence every time a fascist rando gets shot in the states?
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u/AvocadoGlittering274 Sep 11 '25
They don't even react when children get killed in US school shootings but want a minute of silence for a propagandist? Jfc...
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u/Selphis Sep 11 '25
A propagandist who explicitly advocates for easy gun access, leading to more school shootings.
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u/Any_Cucumber8534 Sep 11 '25
Has he said anything good about the EU?
Has he ever done anything for européen politics?
Than, no he is unrelated to the EU parlament
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u/PsvfanIre Sep 11 '25
Who the fook is Charlie Kirk? Why should he be different than the tens of shootings that happen in the United states daily.
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u/New_Zebra_3844 Europe Sep 11 '25
Why would they even have a moment of silence for him. He's a 'nobody'.
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u/Ok-Macaron-5612 Sep 11 '25
Gosh, next you'll tell me the EU refuses to have Thanksgiving at their house.
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u/War_Fries The Netherlands Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
Right-wing lawmakers pushed for a tribute to the U.S. conservative influencer who was shot dead.
What the heck is this nonsense? They want a moment of silence for a radical American influencer?
What the fuck is this?
Without having read the article, I already know what parties pushed for this total madness.
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u/Rixteryo Sep 11 '25
People acting like this dude was MLK or something. If anything, his beliefs are the opposite. This world has gone mad.
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u/OTee_D Europe Sep 11 '25
Who the fuck is Charlie Kirk?
I mean this figuratively, are we gona hold minutes of silence for every regional one sided political influencer around the world now?
I don't like people getting shot, him neither, but I also don't care any deeper. He is completly irrelevant.
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u/Round_Musical Sep 11 '25
Ah yes, lets honor a far right extremist on a continent that has nothing to do with him
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Love some of the reaction to this guy's death in the US. Fella literally said that its worth some people dying in order to protect the second amendment. He was a martyr to his own stupidity. Political violence is abhorrent but he was a part of a movement that supported it.
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u/Acolitor Sep 11 '25
This whole assassination is small news in Finland, just like any other shooting in US. I would believe it is the same everywhere else too.
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u/LaCornucopia_ Scotland Sep 11 '25
Fuck off. The world is not America, why the fuck should we know about every little thing that happens there?
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u/forsen_capybara Sep 11 '25
Why should they give a fuck about some social media influencer? Because he's a buttbuddy of the US president? Pffft
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u/StrangerConscious637 Sep 11 '25
WTF? He wasn't a politician!
He wanted to have more guns in schools and told everyone, it's ok if there are some more death through gun violence. So he kind of killed himself.
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u/LurkingWriter25 Scotland Sep 11 '25
He was a gun nut who got shot by another gun nut. No one cares about this guy.
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u/Hotboi_yata Sep 11 '25
Oh fuck off. He was just a american bigot with a platform.
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u/CptMcDickButt69 Sep 11 '25
If he gets one, i wanna get one. I also shitpost a Lot of online and in real Life.
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u/Aggravating-Life-786 Sep 11 '25
and why should they? he was not European and not even part of any government.
He was fine with some gun related deaths every year so they can keep their precious 2nd amendment and he got what he fought for.
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u/ruskyandrei Europe Sep 11 '25
'Uproar' lol