Charlie Kirk shooting: The Messages on the Bullets are From a Video Game

[Random Boomer]

https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-the-messages-on-the-bullets-are

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.

[EarlG]

1. Mainstream media does not have the cultural vocabulary to describe what happened

This is the best description of the situation that I've seen so far, from your link:

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.

"Left" and "right" is essentially old-fashioned framing for the cultural shift we're seeing here. Many of these kids do not have any kind of political identity that can be described in the traditional way that mainstream media is used to.

If you ask me though, there is an ongoing throughline to all of this, and it's people who are not particularly stable having easy access to high-powered weaponry.