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Cattledog

(6,670 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:26 PM Sep 2025

The Messages on the Bullets are From a Video Game


I’m 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, your’e 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.


https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-the-messages-on-the-bullets-are
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The Messages on the Bullets are From a Video Game (Original Post) Cattledog Sep 2025 OP
OK, he's not as well read as we thought and probably played a lot of video games. The engraving could mean anything-- Silent Type Sep 2025 #1
I thought the perfect shootist needed only one bullet. GreenWave Sep 2025 #2
Back when I hunted gab13by13 Sep 2025 #4
Thank you for the truth gab13by13 Sep 2025 #3
 

Silent Type

(12,412 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--
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 04:05 PM
Sep 2025

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.

gab13by13

(32,789 posts)
3. Thank you for the truth
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 04:25 PM
Sep 2025

Even Nicolle Wallace is not up on the video game angle.
The etched shells were about video games.

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