Among other things, Greek bullets found inscriptions like “Got you!” or “Ouch!” In turn, during the war of Rome with allies (90-88 BC), engravings were found on the missiles: “For Pompey’s Backside!” (it is about the famous father Pompey the Great – Pompey Strabon’s Gnaeus) or “Take that!”.
General_Effort@lemmy.world
on 13 Sep 01:20
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War. War never changes.
MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca
on 12 Sep 21:47
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Back in the day, shooters etc wrote lengthy manifestos.
I think they’ve realized that these days no one is going to read a full length manifesto so it’s better to note their thoughts in…
Bullet point.
(Sorry.)
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
on 12 Sep 21:54
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There was 2 types of stories. First type was propaganda pushed by right wing outlets and influencers like Steven Crowder about manufacturer markings. Second type of story was released by federal agencies and is a little more trustworthy. First type of story was generally retracted. It’s a easy mistake to make when news moves so fast.
Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca
on 13 Sep 00:58
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Are there like bullet engraving machines you can buy on Amazon?
Most bullet casings are brass, which is a fairly soft metal, you could probably scratch some words into it with a pocket knife, sewing needle, pretty much any pointy steel object
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Yes. And when you go to the range you need to write “Fuck Dunder Mifflin”
Because of the paper targets?
Yes
New generation?
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/writing-funny-messages-bomb-ammo/
And it continues up to the present day. There was a Ukraine war fundraiser where you could pay to have a custom message written on munitions.
https://signmyrocket.com/
“Uh oh, you are now afflicted with the ‘Big Sad’ debuff. Please prepare to die, imperialist scum. Slava Ukraini.”
And even before ammo, people would name and/or engrave their swords.
And spears and slingshot bullets and arrows and armor and...
https://imperiumromanum.pl/en/curiosities/messages-on-missiles-to-sling/amp/
War. War never changes.
Back in the day, shooters etc wrote lengthy manifestos.
I think they’ve realized that these days no one is going to read a full length manifesto so it’s better to note their thoughts in…
Bullet point.
(Sorry.)
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The tik-tokification of political assassinations has gotten out of hand
Can you shorten that explanation
it gets the message across
But you gotta make sure the message gets through
You’d think that Charlie could’ve been told his bulge was noticeable and he was homesexual for reading via a DM…
They’ve retracted the story that claimed it BTW.
There was 2 types of stories. First type was propaganda pushed by right wing outlets and influencers like Steven Crowder about manufacturer markings. Second type of story was released by federal agencies and is a little more trustworthy. First type of story was generally retracted. It’s a easy mistake to make when news moves so fast.
Are there like bullet engraving machines you can buy on Amazon?
Most bullet casings are brass, which is a fairly soft metal, you could probably scratch some words into it with a pocket knife, sewing needle, pretty much any pointy steel object
Yes.
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What an absolutely moronic false equivalence.
Luigi showed the world that if you write your manifesto on your ammo then the media will spread it everywhere.
You think Luigi wrote that?
No, he’s just the one who gets credit for it.
Dudes been writing messages on bombs and armaments since WW1.
Swords had phrases written on them too. This has been happening since forever.