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[Pisces]

1. Damage is done

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

18. yeah

[yardwork]

30. As intended.

[SheltieLover]

2. Jfc

Magat morans.

[bluedigger]

3. So Canada has committed an act of war, now?

Those fools. Don't they know we are already staging in Chicago and Boston? It's all about the poutine.

[RockRaven]

4. Transgender symbols are law enforcement's new "touched fentanyl and fell over dead" hysteria.

They are ignorant and bigoted and see their new bogeyman everywhere, and run with it at the drop of a hat.

Reminder: ACAB means feds, civilian investigators, prosecutors, everyone in the process, not just pedantically municipal police officers.

[yardwork]

31. It's LE's new "satanic symbols."

[pat_k]

5. Unbelievable (i.e., unbelievable in any world outside the 47 regime. For the regime, sounds like pretty much on par ).

Unfortunately, in the 47 regime, whoever pulled the bullshit out of their ass and put it in a report will undoubtedly be promoted.

[Cha]

6. TY for this valuable Information...

[rzemanfl]

7. Some cops and FBI

folks had to have turned a blind eye to this stupidity.

[orangecrush]

8. JFC

[still-prayin4rain]

9. Oh, they knew exactly what they were doing. Spreading hate and lies are their core competencies.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Unfucking believable.

This level of ignorance and unprofessionalism in the FBI is just cringe.

[Prairie Gates]

25. The bulletin came out of the ATF, but yeas, FBI was complicit in not shutting it down

CNN should also have known better. I expect this level of nonsense from the WSJ, but we still have to accept them as a source. The various posters who were spreading this (rather gleefully) yesterday should apologize to the board.

[Qutzupalotl]

11. Throw away all your transgender ammo.

[dalton99a]

12. Kick

[PurgedVoter]

13. Who knew there was an munitions company that supports transgender idiology?

A company so immersed in transgender ideology that their maker marks are like a manifesto. Oh no, now that it is out, the maga are gonna want to boycott them.

[Bluetus]

20. If you own guns, you are in danger of catching "the gay"

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

14. Hey magats, better keep your powder dry in those woke bullets!

[niyad]

15. I am reminded of an incident about symbol ignorance that happened MANY years

ago, back in the last millenium. I was wearing an ankh, and this young man came up to me, all outraged, demanding that I get rid of the "satanic" symbol. I pointed out that it was an Egyptian symbol for eternal life, and had been in existence far longer than the christian satan. He said, "I know it's satanic, I learned it on tv!" Being me, I looked at him, and laughed, and said, "Pee Wee Herman (TOLD you it was a long time ago!!!) is also on tv. Do you believe he is real?" As he slunk off, he sneeered, "Sorry I upset you." I replied, "Oh honey, you are far too stupid and gullible to upset me." Poor, confused little idiot.

[Tanuki]

21. Remember when Proctor and Gamble kept getting accused

of worshipping Satan because of a benign, old-timey logo of a man-in-the-moon and stars, which they had been using for decades before anyone freaked out over it?

[niyad]

23. Yes, I do. My favourite part of that hysterical nonsense was where

the ceo supposedly went on Phil Donahue's afternoon talk show and announced that he worshiped Satan, and that all P & G profits supported Satanic efforts. Such an episode did not exist, of course.

[muriel_volestrangler]

29. That was a scam by Amway members to damage their competitor

P&G wins US case on Satanic slurs

The Devil is not in league with global consumer brand Procter & Gamble, a US court has ruled.
P&G won a $19m (£9.7m) lawsuit against four distributors of rival Amway over rumours tying it to Satanism.

The court concluded a 12-year lawsuit in P&G's favour, after it ruled that the four had spread a false accusation that P&G subsidised Satanic cults.

The case is one of several unfair competition suits P&G has brought refuting the Satanism slurs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6471373.stm

If something looks unbelievably stupid, then there's probably something more to it, and profit is most likely.

[yardwork]

32. Yes, it was Amway.

And P&G dropped the moon and stars logo, which I thought was kind of sad.

[obamanut2012]

44. Beat me to it!

[Prairie Gates]

26. They damn near shut down Boston when a street artist who tiles space invaders on surfaces

had a space invader tile mistaken for a terrorist symbol (for some reason). Both the police and the journalists who spout their nonsense need to be better trained and we need a closer selection process because many of them seem to be idiots.

[Jim__]

16. What a bunch of incompetent fucking clowns!

[IronLionZion]

17. It sounds like amateur hour at the FBI because it totally is

they fired anyone who was qualified because they failed some idiotic "loyalty test" or they were too DEI or whatever.

[NBachers]

19. Wait, you mean they didn't really have George Soros's signature on them?

[SunSeeker]

22. Who needs Russian disinformation bots when we have the Trump administration?

[Prairie Gates]

24. This one seems like a motivated "mistake"

They wanted to get their ideological story out there, and they did.

It satisfied their frothing masses, including some trolls close to home (ahem), but was always likely to be bullshit, and sounded trolly and implausible. How does one engrave antifascist ideology on a bullet? The whole thing was ludicrous.

[yardwork]

33. I was struggling with that, myself.

It's not at all clear to me what symbol or few words could possibly convey such a message.

[Prairie Gates]

36. The only thing I can think of is the three arrows down symbol

But honestly, the whole thing is goofy.

[yellowcanine]

27. ATF is a DOGE target. Lot of ATF fired, reassigned.

The “transgender markings”. Nonsense likely came from some political stooge. Kind of like “MS-13 tattoos.”

[sl8]

28. Is there any source other than this tweet?

Is this just this particular poster's hypothesis, or is there more? The images he included, other than the top left one, come from sources unrelated to the shooting. Apparently he's just using them as examples of different headstamps.

I believe this is where the photo in the lower right came from(ca. 2023):
https://forum.cartridgecollectors.org/t/headstamp-inquiry-on-30-06-cartridge/53509

The bits about about the Canadian & UK headstamps are on the Wikipedia page on military headstamps:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_headstamps

[yardwork]

34. I think you're missing the point.

There's no evidence whatsoever that bullet casings supposedly found at the scene have "pro-trans and anti-fascist" words on them. Nobody in authority has released any photos or any evidence for this whatsoever.

Despite the lack evidence, the news media ran with this story.

Somebody on the internet is pointing out that bullets have manufacturers symbols. Maybe that's the source of the story. Or maybe it's all just a made up lie.

What would a "pro transgender and anti-fascist ideology" symbol look like to you? I am at a loss. I don't think there's any such thing.

[sl8]

35. No, I just don't believe unsubstantiated reports from either side.

I don't believe unsubstantiated reports that there *were* transgender symbols found on the cases and I don't believe unsubstantiated reports about how those reports got started.

Maybe this twitter poster is just posting a hypothesis. That's fine, I've heard worse. Could even be true. But from the tone, it sounds like they're stating a fact and many of the thread replies seem to accept it as fact.

As far as what those hypothetical transgender symbols look like "to me", I have no fucking clue. If you've gotten the impression that I believe those initial reports, then you are mistaken.

On edit:
As far as the sources I provided in my post, I added those later, after reading some replies that seemed to think that they were from this case, rather than unrelated examples found on the internet.

[yardwork]

37. "Either side" is right wing talk.

There is no "either side" here.

[sl8]

39. OK. I don't believe "either claim", without substantiation. nt

[yardwork]

40. That's reasonable.

[bigtree]

38. they see symbols of their hatred everywhere they look

[yardwork]

41. Projection is a trait of personality disorders.

We see a lot of it with Trump and his followers.

[Mysterian]

42. Has WSJ issued a retraction?

I knew the filthy fucking assholes were lying.

[confoosed]

43. The press conference (live now) is describing inscribed cartridges