At a press conference this morning, Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox announced that the suspected assassin of Charlie Kirk had engraved messages on several bullet casings recovered at the scene of the murder, including the bullet that killed Kirk.

The messages are a mix of what appear to be anti-fascist sentiments and irony-poisoned internet memes, in the style of what Reason's Jesse Walker identified in 2019 as "The Shitpost Terrorist"—a "rhetorical mixture of sincerity and sarcasm."

Cox said the bullet that killed Kirk was engraved with the phrase:

Notices bulge OwO what's this?

The phrase is an old copypasta meme, originally parodying furry subculture. (If you don't know what furries are, this story is really going to be an educational moment.) OwO is an emoticon depicting a surpris

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