For those who don’t find “far-right” to be an applicable descriptor with what is known currently, I acknowledge that the meme creator could have been more precise with their word choice. However, I feel the difference is academic:

We can replace “far right” with the easily verified “not leftist” without changing the meme whatsoever, primarily because the meme is about Nancy Mace and her mercurial, disingenuous opinion, not (directly) about the shooter.

Edit - I modified it, though I still find it to be a distinction without a difference - alt version for those who prefer (whoops missed one first time)

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    Anyone else finds the casing engraving situation to be a bit strange?

    From a CNN article:

    Officials who spoke during a news conference Friday did not address whether the inscriptions included references to trans people, but none of the writings they described appear to have any connection to that community. One law enforcement source told CNN that some of the markings instead appear to be a reference to video games.

    Seems to me like they have no idea what they mean? Why have they not shared the actual engravings? They did that for the not-Luigi shooting, so I wonder what’s different.

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      Anyone else finds the casing engraving situation to be a bit strange?

      This is the best explanation I’ve seen (and I do think the engravings are shared out there somewhere)

      I’m not steeped in internet culture enough to have known all this Groyper stuff before, though I’d heard the term. However, this has the ring of truth to me, and is consistent with other Groyper descriptions I’ve seen.

      This is the explanation I’m seeing most often outside mainstream media where they are too busy running around trying to analyze it and speak truthfully about his life without getting fired.

      More or less the same point but with more information here: https://www.tiktok.com/@aidanetcetera/video/7549640789652032790