NYT does backflips to obfuscate the leftist symbolism found on shell casings. There is no enigma NYT, just violence from democrats.
The Police Found Messages After Kirk’s Killing. What They Mean Is Unclear1/2Sept. 13, 2025
The messages relied on an enigmatic, coded communication style used by the habitually online.
When investigators in the killing of Charlie Kirk found a bolt-action rifle near the site where he was shot on a Utah campus, they said they also found casings scrawled with what seemed to be mysterious messages.
One read, “hey fascist! CATCH! (up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols),” according to an affidavit filed on Friday in a Utah court.
If the reference to fascism appeared to be straightforward, the arrows were most likely understandable only to certain subsets of gamers.They seem to referto the popular video game Helldivers 2 and its sequence of controller moves to unleash a powerful bomb.
“It’s a joke in the Helldivers community that you can shut down any argument you disagree with by entering ^ vvv and blowing the whole thing up,” Steve Iannelli, 38, a mechanical engineer and experienced player of the game who lives in Baltimore, said in an email.
The messages, which the authorities believe the suspect etched,are some of the few known clues to his possible motivations. Late Thursday, they arrested Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah man, and accused him of killing Mr. Kirk.
Perpetrators of high-profile violence have often used such messages to communicate their beliefs. And in some of the most violent attacks of the last decade, the young gunmen used the culture of small internet forums to try to both justify their attacks and appeal to the niche groups they believed would approve of their actions. (They are not solving it the NYTS is creating a narrative for their stupid readers)
The messages found on the casings — including puerile jokes and a reference to a popular Italian song — are rooted in that coded communication style of the habitually online.
Even the reference to fascism has a clear echo in Helldivers 2, a satirical science fiction game in which the player battles an alien invasion on behalf of an Earth that is ruled by a thinly veiled fascistic government.
But these messages are difficult to parse(no they are not, NYTs just trying to confuse and deflect). Internet in-jokes and references are slippery things,often deployed with multiple layers of irony. That left many Americans trying to crack the enigmatic messages: Was Mr. Robinson a man of the left or of the right, or something else entirely? (Seriously the NYTs can interpret anything or abuibd if it right speech, but use enigmatic, for the obvious. Propaganda!)
In a news conference on Friday morning, Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah, a Republican, said that the phrase “hey fascist! CATCH!” clearly showed the gunman’s intent. “I think that speaks for itself,” he said.
But even that message, which many on the right believed placed Mr. Robinson on the far left, may not be a reliable signpost to the suspect’s political beliefs.
“It’s very hard to map a political ideology on this mishmash of video game references and hints of different internet subcultures,” said Emerson Brooking, a fellow at the Atlantic Council, an international-affairs think tank, and a former cyberpolicy adviser at the Defense Department.
Perpetrators’ use of language from the online world is not confirmation that violent actors are influenced by video games. The American Psychological Association’s standing position is that there is “insufficient scientific evidence to support a causal link between violent video games and violent behavior.”
But the use of language does say something about the ubiquity of online gaming culture. A recent Pew survey found that 85 percent of U.S. teenagers play video games, with 40 percent considering themselves to be “gamers.” (NYTs get their advertising money from Game countries that destroy society)
In some cases, attackers have explained themselves clearly. In 2019, when a gunman opened fire on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 51 people and injuring dozens more, he posted a manifesto that cited popular far-right memes. Containing white nationalist rhetoric, Islamophobic slurs and a copypasta — a rant that is copied and pasted multiple times — it was designed to appeal to a fringe community. Both his livestream of the attack and the manifesto were viewed millions of times and continue to be posted to online forums today.
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