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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Messages on the Bullets are From a Video Game
Im noticing the corporate media is relying heavily on the fact that the shooter - now in custody - engraved anti-fascist rhetoric on some of the bullets found at the scene. But to tie those phrases to actual anti-fascist movements, or Democrats, is a mistake.
The phrases engraved on the bullets include Hey fascist! catch!, Notices, bulges, If you can read this, youre gay lmao, the lyrics to O Bella, Bella Ciao, and a series of arrows. As Anna Bower from Lawfare put it: Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot.
Alexandra Matheiu sums it up nicely: A friend and I have been debating whether the alleged Kirk shooter was either a "dirtbag left cumtown chapo stupidpol poster" or if he was an "irony poisoned, terminally online, neonazi groyper type" given the gun casings, which shows just how impenetrable this is going to be for MSM.
But most of these phrases come from a video game.
The phrases engraved on the bullets include Hey fascist! catch!, Notices, bulges, If you can read this, youre gay lmao, the lyrics to O Bella, Bella Ciao, and a series of arrows. As Anna Bower from Lawfare put it: Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot.
Alexandra Matheiu sums it up nicely: A friend and I have been debating whether the alleged Kirk shooter was either a "dirtbag left cumtown chapo stupidpol poster" or if he was an "irony poisoned, terminally online, neonazi groyper type" given the gun casings, which shows just how impenetrable this is going to be for MSM.
But most of these phrases come from a video game.
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The Messages on the Bullets are From a Video Game (Original Post)
Cattledog
12 hrs ago
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Silent Type
(10,967 posts)1. OK, he's not as well read as we thought and probably played a lot of video games. The engraving could mean anything--
Maybe he was trying to throw investigators off, maybe he a raving leftist, maybe he's just another incel like at least 50% of high profile killers, who knows.
GreenWave
(11,507 posts)2. I thought the perfect shootist needed only one bullet.
Why are there more?
gab13by13
(29,730 posts)4. Back when I hunted
The top hunters took 3 bullets, or thats what they said.
gab13by13
(29,730 posts)3. Thank you for the truth
Even Nicolle Wallace is not up on the video game angle.
The etched shells were about video games.