gzt: ...Given the range of weird messages engraved on the shell casings the provider of the armaments may have had their own combination of motives.
Regarding the assassin Tyler, everyone has grasped unto "Hey fascist! Catch!" because it's meaning seem clear.
But there were a number of weird messages engraved / painted on the weapons / bullets that seemed to be gibberish.
But the same could be said of the Christchurch mosque shooter.
These assassins may have been sane at some point, but after living in internet rabbit-holes, that is no longer the case.
Frequently social-media posts have layers upon layers of irony, until it becomes meaningless.
"↑ → ↓↓↓" is a reference to video game "Helldivers 2" ; it summons the “Eagle 500 kg Bomb.
“If you read this, you are gay.": A popular, childish taunt, with no meaning.
The lyrics to the Italian song “Bella Ciao.": and old Italian folk/partisan song, that featured on "La Casa de Papel" / "Money Heist" on Netflix. People often post or sing it as a symbol of resistance or as a meme anthem of rebellion.
Yankee Doodle
This weird twisting of things sort of thing goes back to “Yankee Doodle”. It was a mocking song written by British troops to ridicule American colonists (“Yankees”), portraying them as unsophisticated bumpkins.
The American colonists reclaimed the song during the Revolutionary War.
By the 19th century, “Yankee Doodle” was already well-established as a patriotic American anthem in the North, in particular the Union army.
Which the Confederate rebel troops would perform, to mock the North.
Lesson: don't try to assign meaning to the ramblings of madmen.
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