“I know there has been speculation as well as to the writing on those casings, those bullet casings."
  • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    And a third unfired case read: “If you read this, you are gay LMAO.”

    Fuckin’ lawl

  • actualaccount@sopuli.xyz
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    22 hours ago

    Inscriptions on a fired casing read: “notices bulges” capital “O-W-O what’s this?”

    Imagine having to say that at a press conference.

    • mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works
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      20 hours ago

      So to sum up, Charlie Kirk was downplaying gun violence in the US, and using a racist dogwhistle to do so, WHILE standing under a giant fucking “prove me wrong” banner, when he was shot with a bullet labeled “OWO what’s this?” by a Mormon cop’s kid from Utah (ie, whiter than raisins in potato salad).

      That is an actual fucking series of events that actually fucking happened. We’ve gone past “the onion is reality” to “this would be too on the nose if it was an onion article and yet it’s somehow reality”.

      • rapchee@lemmy.world
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        8 hours ago

        this is very besides the point, but “whiter than raisins”?? i’m scared to ask, but how white are your raisins, americans?
        edit: after further research, it seems like american raisins are not white either, in which case, wtf is this saying

        • guy8748@lemmy.world
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          7 hours ago

          Not whiter than raisins, whiter than “[putting] raisins in potato salad.” It’s a reference to cooking. Also, I’ve never seen anyone do thay and I’m from the US south, so…pretty white I guess.

        • calliope@retrolemmy.com
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          7 hours ago

          They said “whiter than raisins in potato salad.” It’s a meme saying that white people put raisins in potato salad.

          There’s a book by street lit author Quan Millz called Becky Put Raisins in the Potato Salad. This is actually where I heard about it and I was like “ew! Raisins in potato salad??”

          I’ve never seen a potato salad with raisins in it. Sounds gross.

  • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    Hey can someone tell me what the fuck “transgender ideology” means? Because to me that phrase makes absolutely zero sense

    • BanMe@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Ahh Trump cleared that up today. “Transgender for everybody,” it’s one of the left’s demands. I guess it’s like abortions on demand, but like, everybody is given a gift bag of HRT at their next PCP visit. Here’s some estrogen and some narcan, go slay in today’s world girl.

    • chaogomu@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      TRN. That’s what was on the bullet. Which is a manufacturing mark.

      Other things written on the bullets imply that the shooter idolizes Nick Fuentes, and is, in fact, somthing called a Groyper.

      As a note, Nick Fuentes hated Charlie Kirk.

      • mikesizachrist@lemmy.world
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        14 hours ago

        Honestly though, it’s reasonable for them to think it was trans related, considering Charlie’s rhetoric - we can’t expect the FBI to know what bullets looks like.

    • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
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      21 hours ago

      “Transgender ideology” is the outrageous radical belief that transgender people are people and deserve to be able to live their lives.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Just right-wing drivel to discredit a minority they don’t understand. There’s not much to understand beyond that because them they don’t understand it themselves.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    “Family member” narc’ed.

    Important lesson everyone, listen up: someone will always narc. It’s a surveillance society in a heavily propagandized world. Your right to remain silent is all you get.

    • missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de
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      21 hours ago

      he called his dad and confessed. his dad advised him to turn himself in. he said he’d rather commit suicide. his dad called his youth pastor to talk him down, who called the US marshals to secure him. I feel bad for the dad… that’s got to be a genuinely horrible situation to navigate.

      • shreyan@lemmy.cif.su
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        8 hours ago

        Not really.

        The dad caused the problem when he suggested his son turn himself in like a bitch and a pussy.

        Law enforcement are just state-sponsored goons at this point. They exist to “keep order,” not protect innocents.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
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        21 hours ago

        Youth pastor calling the marshals man. Cold.

        Would Jesus narc on you? Friend, he would not. Mostly because he didn’t exist but still. As a character that is not consistent.

          • klemptor@startrek.website
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            20 hours ago

            Not the dude in the Bible, because the things he’s supposed to have done are impossible. So probably there was some dude that did or said some things and then got a bunch of folklore attached to him. A certain amount of the jesus story comes from contemporaneous myths - IIRC, a virgin birth was a common one.

            • Optional@lemmy.world
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              20 hours ago

              So probably there was some dude that did or said some things and then got a bunch of folklore attached to him.

              Yeah. Likely Osiris. Almost all of the Jesus stories are taken from earlier solar deity “myths” and put into 1CE Judea. Like a graduate school production of Richard III in space with cigarettes.

        • missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de
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          21 hours ago

          Jesus wouldn’t narc on you, but he might tell you to surrender yourself to police. no murder is one of the Ten Commandments. this is how Catholic confession works, at least (I am not Catholic.)

          I suspect the kid consented to the pastor calling the marshals, after deciding to turn himself in. otherwise how would they know where to find him that quickly?

          • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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            11 hours ago

            Genuinely, WWJD is an interesting thought exercise here.

            Without really digging for it, my first guess would be “repent and sin no more.” I imagine less turning oneself in to the cops, and more directly asking forgiveness of the ones you wronged. There wouldn’t really be a “setting it right” for such an act though.

            That’s where I can’t imagine where things would really go. The feebs would definitely involve themselves anyway, even on the razor slim chance the aggrieved did not.

            As much as we very much disagreed (to put it gently) with this hateful brainwashing crusade and are maybe glad to be rid of a prominent source of it, it is still not the way of Christ to be another’s executioner.

            I’ll be honest, I’m struggling here. On one hand Kirk was causing a lot of harm through pursuading the worst sides of people under the guise of “logic.” His individual capacity for further harm has been neutralized (“martyr” narrative aside), and that feels like a positive.

            But in the end, I don’t want to celebrate murder. I wish it never came to this and people had enough sense to have just ignored him entirely. The fact that so many people find this ideology appealing and we’ve gotten this deep demonstrates a moral decay of our civilization, and in the end he was slain by the monster he and his ilk helped to unleash on us all.

            Heh sorry for the rant as a reply. Just thinking out loud I guess.

          • rozodru@piefed.socialEnglish
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            21 hours ago

            I’m Catholic. When I was a kid I had to go to confessional and like most Catholic kids we just made shit up cause I mean come on, no kid is keeping tally of all the stuff they’ve done. So we’d just lie to the priest and try to one up each other with “stuff we did”. The priest never told our parents or teachers.

              • mcv@lemmy.zip
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                10 hours ago

                I’m not Catholic, but the confession is one of those things that, if done right, might actually be very valuable. The ability to talk to someone about the bad stuff you did, get it off your chest, get some sort of closure so you can let it go, without any risk of getting ratted out to the authorities, could be very good for your mental health, I imagine.

                And if everybody does it, there’s no stigma attached to it. So if you go and have nothing to say, you go to cover for the people who do have something.

                Though modern therapy can serve the same role, of course.

      • notarobot@lemmy.zip
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        21 hours ago

        That makes sense. I was just thinking about the plan ally these people have. Shooting someone like this is a bad idea. If your plan is shoot and run, they are going to have cameras. Do something remote where you can first run to another country and the “shoot”, or play the plausible deniability card and do get caught.

        “my drone malfunctioned while varying a very heavy camera and it just fell on him” is more believable than “well I was just standing there with my rifle, and when I saw what happened through my scope I jumped from a roof and ran because I was afraid of getting blamed for it”

      • hector@lemmy.today
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        8 hours ago

        I would not. Not even for ypur cousin, especially not for popping some douchelord.

      • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
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        21 hours ago

        1. They’ll probably never see the reward. The McDonalds employee who turned in Luigi hasn’t seen a penny.

        2. This guy killed a fascist spreading hate and violence towards minorities. He was literally in the middle of it when he was killed. I’m not sure the “piece-of-shit” label fits.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I opened up Ground News today and the mainstream news sources are just full of this statement that the bullets were “engraved with transgender ideology.” Someone has been making very sure this falsehood is the message all the journalists take away and report. And now it has been all over the news throughout the day.

    It’s horrible seeing the fascists lie and lie to set up trans people as villains and enemies.

    And what’s with this “anti-fascist ideology” thing? Remember before 2015 when anti-fascist ideology was just the default and the baseline for being even a half-decent person?

    • missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de
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      21 hours ago

      did Ground News report that as fact? journalism 101: when you report on a rumor, clearly mark it as a rumor. or just don’t report rumors in the first place.

      • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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        21 hours ago

        Ground News is a news aggregator that publishes links to other sites’ news pages. It doesn’t really have editorial content of its own, though it does have some AI summaries which should be treated with the appropriate mistrust.

    • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Reminder that Ground news exists entirely to push a “both sides” narrative in a world where right wing media openly seeks to push “alternative facts” and big lies.

      • psivchaz@reddthat.com
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        21 hours ago

        Know your enemy. I feel like your chances of helping deprogram someone are higher if you know what bullshit they’re being fed. Then again I’m batting zero so who knows

      • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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        22 hours ago

        Well, yes, I have a similar view of anything that makes politics into a balance between “left” and “right”. Even to treat them as two ends of the same line overly elevates the right, which is just a bunch of base impulses, personality defects, resentments, lies and scams dressed up as a political ideology. So I agree with your point and I don’t treat Ground News as a map of truth, but I do find it handy for getting a quick overview of what many news websites are saying and how the right is spinning things.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    How was it engraved? Did the guy own some sort of engraving rig? How did he fit all this text on a bullet?