European Parliament Rejects Request For A Minute Of Silence For Charlie Kirk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4iF_dDg3nM

Someone please 🙏 make a remix.

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36 Comments

Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world · 160 pts · 327d (1 reply)

The comments are unhinged. "Cut off funding to the EU!"

How utterly and hilariously disconnected from reality.

Unpeeled3828@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 326d

That's the Forbes Breaking News channel. That is a serious insane channel that probably attracts a lot of insane people.

Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social · 126 pts · 327d (1 reply)

Why would the EU, a completely separate sovereign group of nations, mourn for some American christofascist? I'd be supremely disappointed in them if they did.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 326d

Instead of wondering why Kirk matters, we should be asking who put this notion forward. Kirk must have inspired some love from christo-fascists in Europe. Maybe we should be looking at them.

takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 115 pts · 327d (1 reply)

WTF did he contribute to Europe to even consider this?

He (indirectly) contributed that Europe will possibly have another war after 80 years of peace.

BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 327d

Other than making nazism globally mainstream again?

LePoisson@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 327d (1 reply)

I took a look at the transcript, and surprisingly it did a good job spitting out the German (I think?). Ran it through google translate because I don't speak the language.

Anyways, the woman speaking is saying that the request for a moment of silence was already rejected by the President so that's why she keeps going.

Dude was trying to ignore the ruling that was already issued on his request and go outside of the procedural rules.

skisnow@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 326d

Yeah this is the one thing pissing me off about how I'm seeing it summarized on the Other Site and elsewhere. There's a lot of outlets making it look like there was scheduled to be a minute of silence, but a bunch of obnoxious disrespectful leftists kept talking during it.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 327d

Christ YouTube is such a sewer. Its like the commenters all have channels now.

BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 327d

There are a lot of suspiciously similar comments on that video

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 327d (6 replies)

It cannot be overstated how pathetic YouTube commenters are.

Naich@lemmings.world · 6 pts · 327d (5 replies)

Noted TrickDacy... Noted

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 327d (4 replies)

I have no idea what this reference is

Naich@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 327d (3 replies)

The many comments under that video that say "noted EU... Noted". I don't know about you, but I'm scared.

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 327d (2 replies)

I still don't get it...

Serpent@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 327d

Noted TrickDacey... Noted

Korne127@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 326d

The reference is that many, as you say, pathetic YouTube commenters write pathetic stuff like "noted EU… noted" in an attempt to say how mad they are and that this will have bad consequences. Because you ridiculed such commenters, @Naich@lemmings.world referenced it but using your nickname instead of EU.

sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 327d (1 reply)

the EU is the new Soviet Union

Carmakazi@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 327d

I'd say the shoe fits the US better, considering how close we are to collapse.

leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 327d (5 replies)

I farted loudly for around 40 seconds (with occasional pauses) while reading about his death on lemmy; does that count?

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 327d

Respects paid.

Dojan@pawb.social · 7 pts · 327d (2 replies)

Gods. That level of bloating sounds really uncomfortable. Are you alright?

leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 327d (1 reply)

Yeah, the intestinal flora had some unusual reaction to something I ate yesterday, I suppose.

Dojan@pawb.social · 5 pts · 327d

Hope you’ll recover swiftly.

DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d

Unfortunately no ot doesn't count but still very impressive.

yesman@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 327d

Kirk in and of himself doesn't justify any of the attention that this is getting.

SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 327d (1 reply)

Holy fuck the people in the comments are literally mentally deficient.

don@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 327d

I have seen a few heroes clap back really well at the republican degenerates, but you’re not lying. Irreparably mentally fucked. Deport ‘em to North Korea.

Slotos@feddit.nl · 12 pts · 327d

One of the comments claims he’s a victim of hate crime like George Floyd, because there were „anti-fascist engravings on bullets”.

Stop the Earth, I’m disembarking!

Unpeeled3828@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 326d (3 replies)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/us/eu-parliament-charlie-kirk-moment-of-silence.html

Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary called Mr. Kirk “a true defender of faith and freedom.”

The Europe of Sovereign Nations Group, a far-right political group, moved to nominate Mr. Kirk for the Sakharov Prize, a tribute for human rights work.

Europe is so fucked.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 326d (1 reply)

You do know that Hungary is NOT Europe?

It's a country in Europe run by a Putin supported dictator

Also, as you can see in the headline, or am suggested it and Europe said "No"

There are a lot of problems going on in Europe, this ain't one of them

Unpeeled3828@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 326d

Not Europe? So Patriots for Europe is not an European political alliance that in many ways tries to mirror MAGA? You say Putin personally I see Trumps America, The Heritage Foundation as a bigger threat

trustyturtle@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 326d

Well Hungary is fucked, and the Sovereign Nations Group is a bullshit populist right wing group that has <4% of the vote ... I'd say we're still all right, but you know how it is. Gotta vote against the Nazis

scarabic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 326d

Why does it always look like someone photoshopped his face to 50% size?

Ron@zegheteens.nl · 5 pts · 326d

He is the one who said that empathy is for the weak.

frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 3 pts · 327d

Aw man, it's just an administrative no. They can still request one.