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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 175 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Breaking News: the entire text of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood was found to be engraved on bullet casings left at the scene, according to a source. So we should ban that book from all schools, fr fr.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 77 points 17 hours ago

transgender and antifascist ideology

transgender ... ideology

[Squidward voice, but angrier] NO, PATRICK, TRANSGENDER IS NOT AN IDEOLOGY... PREGNANT IS NOT AN IDEOLOGY EITHER.

[–] Treetrimmer@sh.itjust.works 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I thought WSJ was fake news according to trump...

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 13 hours ago

What day is it, and how does it lick the rapist's boots?

[–] Unpeeled3828@sh.itjust.works 23 points 15 hours ago

Kinda like how people write shit on bombs meant for Gaza but on bullets? LMAO yes I don't believe that at all

I wonder what's supposedly written on it. I'll bet FCK NZI in the RUN DMC logo

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 18 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

I wonder if ~~Jeff Bezos~~ Murdoch will ever see punishment for making his news media mouthpiece publish this lie?

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 hours ago

Also, why the fuck is the Wall Street Journal commenting on some gang-related shooting?

[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

WSJ is owned by Fox News Murdoch assholes, not Jeff Bezos. Both deserve shit. But let's give it where it's due.

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 41 points 16 hours ago

Trans-antifascists is something I can support

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 28 points 16 hours ago

Probably didn't even find the rifle responsible. More reason to believe it was a setup.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Lol what could they have possibly put on the bullet casings to make somebody think this?

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 100 points 19 hours ago (4 children)
[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Early Bulletin Said Ammunition in Kirk Shooting Engraved With Transgender, Antifascist Ideology; Some Sources Urge Caution

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/charlie-kirk-shot/card/pdymd1sXXMSlVRhpvR4b

It sounds like a bulletin was indeed circulated, and it sounds like the WSJ is being pretty candid about the law enforcement response:

Law-Enforcement Officials Sow Confusion on Manhunt for Kirk Shooter / Contradictory public statements risk undermining confidence in investigation, law enforcement veterans say

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/charlie-kirk-shooting-manhunt-e7f3eae4

The WSJ is not going to have first hand access to the evidence, so they have to report (transparently!) what they're told by credible sources. In this case, it sounds like law enforcement


supposed to be credible


is not. It's a pretty tricky thing to report on.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 29 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 23 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Can you believe, once upon a tine long long ago The Wall Street Journal actually had integrity in journalism.

Now it's a billionaire's plaything.

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[–] Naich 47 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

My shocked Pikachu face is shocked at this shocking shock.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 138 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah what the fuck. Just like Luigi's alleged engravings. It doesnt make any sense beyond an emotional response. Why take the time to engrave something no one will see? Its going faster than the speed of sound.

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 83 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

Typically you would engrave the casing. That goes nowhere near the target.

So yeah.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 49 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (7 children)

Then to the same degree, why engrave the evidence to make it easier to track? It still doesnt make sense.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 17 hours ago (16 children)

So this line of reasoning is a trap. People do dumb ass shit all the time for emotional reasons, including criminals. In fact, people doing dumb ass shit is so reliable that police investigative procedures are almost designed around it.

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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

The casing that the shooter took with them?

Why leave rifle full of them & not leave the one you fired?

This was a CIA or Mossad hit & the shooter isn't even in the USA at this point.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 18 points 17 hours ago

Satanic Panic is back

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 110 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

In related news, doctors were amazed they kept pulling books and scrolls from the body, placed there by the bullets.

“It’s amazing” said the orange as quoted by the wsj, “apparently books like this can kill. I’m sure he could have survived the wound without the additional poisoning.”

In response to this, reaction forces were posed to raid the libraries of all elementary schools within the washington dc area

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 86 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

Not seeing other outlets report this. So yeah I'm skeptical.

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[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 79 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

Total BS. Engraving on a small, curved surface, legibly is hard as hell. Then that bullet is going to get grooved in a rifled barrel, and most likely deform or fragment on impact.

We should probably be talking about how Trump used a fucking AI video to address Charlie Kirk's death. There's a good chance Trump is doing this as a false flag

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 35 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

False flag is exactly what this is.

I’d be shocked if this wasn’t a decision directly from Trump and his magat minions they follow him around to distract from Epstein and further slide America in the hell hole of fascism that it’s facing.

Hurry up Americans. You won’t have an America soon at this rate.

Line item number 2.

[–] alcibiades@sh.itjust.works 41 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (10 children)

No way in fuck they purposely had Kirk assassinated.

  1. His job as a propagandist / hate spreader is way too important and influential to stop
  2. they could’ve martyred a similarly famous, but less influential, republican and gotten the same response
  3. they’re going to go forward with their plan- they don’t need an excuse
  4. this happened in a red state, why wouldn’t they pick a blue state?
  5. I really don’t think Epstein files matter that much for republicans. A video could come out of Trump raping a child and it would be chalked up to ai and they wouldn’t believe it
  6. the news cycle is so short- this won’t remain a hot topic for a long amount of time

It’s a convenient distraction, sure, but it’s been proven time and time again that they don’t need distractions to carry out policy. If there’s any conspiracy to be had, it would be surrounding the (relatively) unanimous rhetoric that his death was a tragedy. When kids die in Gaza everyday, a regular citizen is shot, or someone kills themselves because of financial strain we don’t debate the morals of their unjust death. However when a famous white man is killed he isn’t just a statistic but an example of how awful people can be.

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[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 31 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

They're almost certainly saying bullet but meaning casing. But yes I have to say that it's pretty unlikely.

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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

I mean, if I was wanting a false flag, that's what I'd do.

[–] lmdnw@lemmy.world 44 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I hope a trans person did shoot him and I hope they get away with it. Kirk made his living by terrorizing and dehumanizing queer folks and I’m happy he finally got to the FO stage. Hopefully seeing daddy get blown away will ensure his kid doesn’t grow up to be as bigoted and the lesson is learned.

[–] DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.ca 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Oh Gods I hope this isn't the case. The right would start foaming at the mouth and could start rounding us up as threats.

It's also... a little ghoulish to speak about a kid losing their parent that way. Whatever you think of the man his kid's grief isn't exactly something to celebrate. I get not mourning the man but celebrating his death isn't going to help us trans folks in the end. I have a feeling that this is going to get a whole lot worse for all of us as a people very quickly and as a whole we're already a group hanging on by our fingertips.

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[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 24 points 17 hours ago

I don't. I hope it was a MAGA nutjob or similar so the administration doesn't get a good boogeyman

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 28 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

“antifacsist ideology”?

So, what…an American Flag? Right? Right…?

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 23 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah, what is antifascist ideology? Like, equal rights, being nice,... That kind of stuff?

And transgender ideology? What is that? To be nice to transgender people?

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 35 points 19 hours ago

Ideology: fascism is bad, transgender people should have equal rights.

Not ideology: let's kill everybody that doesn't conform to our narrow minded idea of society.

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