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[–] 242 points 1 year ago (25 children)

A Wall Street Journal report, citing an ATF bulletin, had previously said the casings were “engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology.” The transgender symbols were later understood to relate to markings identifying the manufacturer.

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

FBI director concludes speech with "Rest now, my brother, we have the watch, and I'll see you at Valhalla"

Reality is satire

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  • [+] 146 points 1 year ago (12 children)
  • [–] 105 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Fascists of all stripes have a weakness for Norse mythology.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, a weakness and no actual knowledge of Norse mythology. Some dumb fascists getting popped on a stage isn't something Odin or Freyja gives a fuck about. They only get to Folkvangr or Valhalla if they die in combat. Most of these cowards will piss themselves if they ever see a battlefield.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    "Use the Force, Harry Potter" - Jean Luc Picard.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Who is this trans-ideology ammunition manufacturer?

    Is trans ideology even a thing? I thought it was just people trying to live authentic lives?

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago

    Is trans ideology even a thing?

    That's called a Linux subreddit

    I thought it was just people trying to live authentic lives?

    It is

    But fascists are trying to genocide us and will use any tool available to them

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "I'll see you in Valhalla"

    Obvious Nazi dogwhistle is obvious.

    Nazis are obsessed with Norse mythology.

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    [–] 158 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Can we find the person who, for no apparent reason, interpreted manufacturers markings as apparent 'trans ideology' and ask him wtf that was supposed to accomplish? I mean if you don't know what some markings mean, aside from blatant bias is there any possible way to get to 'trans ideology' from manufacturers markings? Are they using male/female icons? Emojis? Printing them in rainbow colors?

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  • [–] 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    EDIT: the misinterpretation may actually be a series of arrows related to a Helldivers 2 move. Up, right, down, down, down. There is an anti fascist icon of three downward arrows. I'm guessing the idiots thought the other two arrows looked like those astrological gender icons and decided that must mean trans somehow.

    TRN. It's the manufacturers code for a Turkish company called Turan. That's what I heard at any rate.

    Identifying that as trans is just rank incompetence. Anyone that stupid would be fired in a sane world. Under our fascist regime, new FBI director incoming.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It sounds like someone had a theory and Patel went off before any research could be done. Not to defend the fbi but it sounds like they did what they are supposed to it's Patel who keeps fucking up

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm not a gun person but my understanding is that no one who's looked at bullets could mistake a manufacturer's imprint. Where it is and what it looks like preclude it being anything else. It would be like confusing a barcode for a brandname.

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  • [–] 126 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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, toxic 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 89 points 1 year ago (37 children)

    "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.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (27 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (25 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So does the youth pastor get the reward tax free?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And it was always "three Hail Marys and a Glory Be" and you're golden. What a weird ritual.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    What's the most unhinged confession you and your friends did?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    one of my friends made up a wild story about encasing his sisters pet hamster in concrete after she found his porn stash and told his parents. He didn't have a sister, he didn't even have a pet hamster.

    the one I remember I told was that I stole $100 from my moms purse and used it to buy pogs and cigarettes and beer. I was 10.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's hilarious! I don't know how the priest is able to keep a straight face as the confessions keep getting wilder and wilder!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    yeah I dont' know either. looking back I know that the Priest knew the majority of the confessions were just bullshit but I guess we were all still technically technically committing a sin by lying and therefore he was still doing his job.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Jesus did actually exist. He was like a guy that was really there at some point

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    that's certainly a take that most secular scholars of early christianity would disagree with but do you

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    True, true. However scholars of Christianity kind of have a bias there, dunnthey.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    that's why I specified secular scholars.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    If they’ve devoted their professional lives to the study of Christianity’s origins and don’t know it’s mainly a retelling of other astrological and ancient myths (virgin birth, three wise men, dec 25, 12 disciples, temptations in the desert, the betrayer, the crucifixion, the rebirth, and on and on) then they’re probably not very good.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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.

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  • [+] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year 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"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    $100,000 bounty I’d give up my piece-of-shit cousin

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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

    Imagine having to say that at a press conference.

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  • [–] 73 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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".

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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