As expected

Thank you, mainstream media, for showing how complicit and willing you are to shill any view given by those in power.

Journalism is dead and has been for decades, sadly.

- They feared satire would be dead, but the onion has been killing it
I mean, it's still pretty good in the free world. There is decay, but it's not like living in countries like Russia, USA, or China. There's a reason why Murdoch left Australia.
The screenshotted tweet was wrong, mainstream media was correct.
- They were half right. The engravings were anti fascist but had nothing to do at all with trans people. Plus some dumb memes like notices bulge owo

This was too stupid to be true, yet they ran with it. The MSM is dying, from self-inflicted wounds.

Pretty sure false headlines like this actually increase engagement, and the retraction increases engagement again. They are optimally playing the capitalism game, not dying.
- Publish BS that one side of the political aisle wants to hear & they eat it up.
  Publish article calling out the first story's BS, and get those on the other side of the political aisle eating it up.
  Profit!
  EDIT: fixed "aisle" thanks to @imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works. I know that's the correct word, but I dunno why I didn't think of it when writing this initially. I think my brain's slowly turning to mush as I age.
  sigh
- Agreed. We've turned into the headline mattering more than the content.
  Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Lemmy, etc., there's comments everywhere "did you even read the article?" We're looking for the fastest confirmation bias and it's easy when it's the title.
  Fox News and OAN will run with the transgender headline and be quiet at the redaction, the damage is done.
  What people are slow to realize is how well the Trump administration is playing this game. The headlines about Trump suing over the 2020 election is all they wanted, people tend to give validity to something that's at the courts, regardless of the verdict.

Transgender ideology?

"You should install linux"

Authorities confused why there are so many casings inscribed with btw
- boy-to-woman
"I use Arch btw"
- I wish this hurtful stereotype would stop: most have transitioned to NixOS. Please don't deadsystem. :p
- A vegan makes an appearance.
The killshot casing said “notices bulge OWO what’s this?” or something very very close, so I think that’s what they were going off of.

Would like more confirmation on this than a picture of a tweet saying so.

Its very much still up, now just framed in a "maybe do your own research before believing us" kinda way lmao
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/ammunition-in-kirk-shooting-engraved-with-transgender-antifascist-ideology-sources-pdymd1sXXMSlVRhpvR4b
- Thank you! That’s hardly a retraction, innit?
Huh? It was a lie. You want confirmation that a lie is a lie? How does one prove that? You literally got this backwards—the onus would be on you to prove that there was pro-trans messaging on the bullet.
Also, fucking google it.
- Settle down, Francis. I don’t believe something just because someone posted a picture of someone else’s tweet saying it. That’s how propaganda works.
  This is someone making a claim, secondhand. People who make claims have the burden of proof. I am not making a claim.
  e: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/20824428
  And the claim isn't true. That wasn't a retraction.
- Someone just posted proof they didn’t retract it.

Damage is done. MAGA idiots will run with this regardless. Look at the anti-vaxx crowd as examples

and all retractions and corrections will be touted as cover ups. The damage is done, innocents will be attacked over it.
- Lol they will never see the retractions. I'm sure my more conservative friends will bring this up as of its gospel years after.
  One of them recently referred to the Trump shooter as a blue haired lefty extremist.

Release the Epstein files.

Rumour has it the Epstein files are scrawled with transgender ideology, only one way to know for true.
Well pedo-prez is certainly enjoying a break from this right now. Once again, and for the last time, Charlie has been his useful idiot.

Rupert Murdoch deserves to be flayed alive for his crimes against humanity and its societies.

Nothing will happen as a result of this, if justice is going to be brought against the global oligarchy it won't come from our governments.

Conservatives are incapable of being shamed. They elected a pedophile and convicted felon who put together the least qualified government in history, and cheered when a South African Nazi threw out Nazi salutes behind the podium of the president. If none of that could make them feel ashamed, then falsely blaming the shooting on their current greatest enemy, trans people, has no chance.

With radical politcal groups, this is a feature not a bug. By going along with obvious bullshit, you prove your loyalty to the tribe.
- Is that also why people here celebrate violence over dialogue?

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/trump-administration-charlie-kirk-fbi-israel-gaza-september-12-2025/6390837/

From what I'm seeing:

    
1 HOUR AGO
10:39 AM EDT

Suspect's bullet casings had anti-fascist inscriptions engraved
By Danielle Abreu
Gov. Cox confirmed that investigators discovered a bolt-action rifle and scope wrapped in a towel and inscriptions engraved on bullet casings belonging to the suspect in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.

One of the inscriptions read, "Hey, fascist. Catch!" and another read, “If you read this, you are gay." A third casing had the lyrics to “Bella Ciao," an Italian folk anthem sung by the anti-fascist resistance movement during World War II.

Looks like it's possible. Sidenote, hilarious to me hearing the Utah governor read what sounds like c/196 transcriptions in such an official voice.

I mean those are definitely anti-fascist, but I don't see a damn thing that could be interpreted as transgender.
- In the video the Utah Gov. also says "Spots bulge, OwO" or something like that, idk why they left it out in the text I copied.
  But yeah still not technically transgender, just whatever "uwu shit" is called (back in my day we spoke 1337, idk the name of this new tongue.)
Reuters:
The bullet that killed Kirk had also been inscribed: "Notices Buldge OWO what’s this?”
Not enough people are talking about this. Makes 0 sense in context but great regardless.
- Do you happen to know how? As a layperson this seems like a lot of words to inscribe on a single bullet....
They left out the best part of the "Hey, fascist. Catch!" one
It was followed with ↑→↓↓↓
- Ahh, I love the smell of a nice cup of liber-tea.
Me when I'm a white Utahn Mormon boy and I google antifascist slogans so I can pretend to be a leftist
Reuters reports the same (1)
Why were there so many casings for all those messages? He only fired one bullet
- Multiple bullets in the Mauser's mag.

Honestly, if there's gonna be engravings on bullet cases, I'd leave just three words: Change My Mind.

Rearrange My Brain

Conservatives have no shame. That's why the U.S is where it is.

Regressives feel no shame. People without empathy don't feel shame. They do promote and support hate.

I heard he said "Hilary Clinton sends her regards purple monkey dishwasher" right before he opened fire.

Damage was done and the anger it put into conservative hearts isnt going away even if they admit it was bullshit. They will justify their anger with some vague comeback and keep on hating

If they can make up shit then I can as well. The shooter was definitely a hardcore maga supporter. TRN obviously stands for Trump National Republic or something idk

WJS, is that the same newspaper that reported the 40 beheaded babies in Israel then retracted it?

Wall Journal Street?

Like they’d ever apologize. “Well this is what libs do anyway…”

There was one unused casing that said something like “take that fascist” so I can understand why they’d call it anti fascist. The cringe ones were just assigned to trans people who also have online cringe culture.

I spend a lot of time on Lemmy and am only vaguely aware of trans culture. I don't expect a random regular person to even know there's an online trans culture, much less identify signs of it.

I don't even get how any editor lives down something like this. Giving green light on publish here is such an incredibly incompetent move

He says that as if it's not extremely common these days for preliminary, unconfirmed information to spread like wildfire, among everyone. The half-life of news in the public consciousness has grown so short that it's common for public attention to event X to have basically already dwindled to nothing, by the time all of the confirmation/debunking has happened.

Hell, I still encounter people, once in a while, who think Kyle Rittenhouse targeted and shot black people, all these years later, which was one of the very first things claimed about the Kenosha shooting after it happened, and was officially debunked almost immediately.

![](https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/b84916f7-0fd3-4325-9aa8-9acb86889a62.webp

MAGA are such idiots

Wow! Ammunition manufacturers have recognized the growing market for trans mass shooters and are releasing a new line, called TransAmmo!©
That's smart marketing.

I am still wondering about the anti-facist part. Like, did they allegedly just say the words anti-facist on them or did they relate to something Kirk said and the news just inadvertedly ousted Kirk as facist?

I watched part of the press conference, and they said one of the bullet casings had “Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Bella ciao” written on it, and another had something like “catch this, fascist” on it. Another said “notices bulges OWO”, and another said “if you’re reading this, you’re gay”. Or something like those, I only heard the guy read it once
In my unprofessional opinion, it sounds like the shooter was involved in online radical spaces, but hard to discern exactly what his motive was rn
EDIT: reporting from The Guardian - ‘On one of three unfired casings read “hey fascist! Catch!”, a second read “oh bella ciao” and a third one read: “If you read this, you are gay, LMAO”.’
- These sayings sound like something off of 4chan
- i read elsewhere that the "hey fascist! Catch!" one also had the code for the 500kg bomb from helldivers
- it sounds like the shooter was involved in online radical spaces
  Yea, sounds like typical young male, college dropout, lives with mom and spends most of the time online, behaviour.
  Aimless youth is a dangerous thing.
Knowing how tortured some of these conspiracy 'connections' get, they'll probably try to spin the letter A in a normal typeface as being an anarchist symbol or something
EDIT: Possibly vindicated by the manufacturers stamp being interpreted as Trans ideology.
Reuters reports: (1)
"If you read this, you are gay, lmao."
"Hey fascist! Catch!"
And
"Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Ciao, Ciao."
As engravings.
- Who is in charge of OpSec over there?!? Why is the public even allowed to know that there were engraved bullets AT ALL? Much less what was on them?! This really sounds like a pre-written piece

It amuses me how much misinformation is on lemmy, which is what this site's members espouse to be against.

They haven't developed to the level of understanding and experiencing shame.

The bullets being engraved thing smelled like bullshit from the beginning, I can’t believe I bought it the first time around when that CEO was shot in front of the Hilton

Seem like the far-left is the ones shooting up all the schools you guys should be fighting yourselfs #provemewrong