I am also not surprised.

Even Nicolle Wallace is uninformed about this.

one is against shithole. I really don't mind them fighting each other, but killings I don't approve.

and other innocents gunned down for these maga, expansionist beliefs. At this point, if they want to exercise 2nd amendment options, I'd much rather see them use it against each other instead of innocents just trying to live and let live.

Understand, I didn't use to be like this. And I certainly didn't come to this out of nowhere. But 10 years of trump has caused PTSD, night terrors, and makes living just incredibly hard to handle. However it can be put back under the rocks from which it came, I'm all for it.

. . . prepare to be informed then to be disgusted.

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Helldivers II is a popular video game that came out a while back on Playstation and PC, and is now on Xbox (I think). The game takes place in a fictionalized universe which is basically a ripoff of the movie Starship Troopers (which is a satirical adaptation of a Heinlein novel), where humans have spread across the galaxy and run into other alien species which they try to eradicate, while sending messages back to "Super Earth" that they're "spreading freedom" across the galaxy. From their wiki:

It's basically a satire on various US military misadventures, like the invasion of Iraq. People who play it very much lean into the tongue-in-cheek faux-propaganda language of the game (like the example above), and the social media accounts also use the same language. It's all in good fun, and the satire is thick, which makes it popular with memers. People who play the game know that it's satire and supposed to be humorous -- but then of course not everybody online is a stable individual.

Edited to add: this was the launch trailer so you can get an idea of the tone of the game.

That trailer looks to me like it'd go right into Starship Troopers.

Never played it myself but I have heard it references Starship Troopers quite a bit.

...row of garden space, plant and harvest enough food for one week for one person. When they can do that, they will have earned the right to play unrealistic games such as this.

Edited to add: the original Canned Heat song drives it right over the top.

He was one sick puppy.

and that is one sick way to look at a
fucking game.

All of the slogans on the bullet casings were dripping with ironic sarcasm and offered as insider LOLs to fellow Groypers. The game has absolutely *nothing* to do with the action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groypers

You'll be reading a lot about this shortly I expect. Taken from Bluesky today, which was generated by Grok/AI:

In my view, these inscriptions on the ammo casings -"Notices bulges OWO," "Oh Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao Ciao Ciao," "Catch this fascist," and "If you are reading this you are gay, Imaoooo"-aren't random or left- leaning signals like some early reports claimed. Instead, they trace Tyler Robinson's political beliefs squarely to the fringes of the alt-right, specifically the Groyper movement led by figures like Nick Fuentes. This crowd positions itself as hyper-patriotic, pro-Trump conservatives who see
mainstream Republicans like Charlie Kirk as sellouts or "fake conservatives" infected by globalism, liberalism, or even fascism-lite. The "bulges OWO" bit is a crude, mocking nod to transphobic memes that originated on Tumblr but got co-opted by right-wing trolls to "spot" trans people in crowds-pure Groyper-style bigotry. "Bella Ciao" flips an anti-fascist WWII partisan song into ironic ammo for ridiculing leftists, while tying into their beef with "fascist" establishment figures like Kirk (whom Fuentes has repeatedly trashed). The "gay" taunt is straight-up homophobic bait, emblematic of the group's anti-LGBTQ venom. And "Catch this fascist"? That's a direct shot at Kirk, framing the attack as purging a traitor from the right.Overall, it's not antifa or trans activism-it's the toxic underbelly of the MAGA ecosystem, where online radicalization turns personal grievances into violence against perceived ideological impurities. Robinson's Republican registration and Trump donations fit the profile: a young guy steeped in gun culture and pandemic- era echo chambers, lashing out at "the enemy within" on his own side. Tragic, but a reminder that extremism
doesn't care about party lines-it just amplifies hate.

The game represents the reality,
and vice-versa.

like this? Or what?

A variation -



There are so many different emoji sets out there it would be tough to keep track of!

Not some initials.

you can generate some of the smilies manually using the alphanumeric characters like = the ":" next to a "D".

I believe the point of that, which is popular among the GenZ crowd, is to use the text equivalents of emojis for "reactions" when texting (and they spend all day and night texting and swiping ).

You might have stuff like this -

8^D

or

:^D

or

:-O

when it's much easier to just type it up on paper or email it or post it online. So weird to do it on bullets.

I feel some satisfaction knowing how many RW homophobes have read this: