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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEminem, Nutella, and Edmund Burke: A Close Reading of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Twitter Account
By John Swansburg | Posted Friday, April 19, 2013, at 1:15 PM
Gawkers Adrian Chen has found what he believes to be 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs Twitter account, and BuzzFeed is reporting that the account indeed belongs to the at-large marathon bombing suspect.
The tweets are jarring for their ordinariness. The updates sketch a portrait of a somewhat bro-ish, quite assimilated young American. If his tweets are to be believed, Tsarnaev is a sports fanimagine how reckless their weekend is going to be in #Louisville, he wrote in the wake of the teams NCAA victory. He likes hip-hop, specifically Kendrick Lamar and Eminem. He has thoughts on the best strategy for when to buy the new Air Jordans. He seems to like womenhe posted an NSFW image of a man and woman engaged in a sex act, rendered in ASCII charactersand doesnt care for gays, if his homophobic retweets can be interpreted as endorsements. (On the other hand, he once tweeted a line from Rent.)
He eats Hot Pockets, though he doesnt like them nearly as much as he likes Nutella, which has come up more than once in recent months. Hes familiar enough with American popular culture that he could note the recent absence of a once ubiquitous advertising avatar: I haven't seen a silly rabbit trix are for kids commercial in a while, did he finally get some or what...
These seem like the stray observations of an American male who would wear his baseball cap backward; he lives up to the image in the minds of those who spent yesterday brofiling him. And yet sprinkled throughout these anodyne, pop-culture-laden notes are musings that take on a darker hue after the bombings. On April 7, he wrote: If you have the knowledge and the inspiration all that's left is to take action.* On March 10, he tweeted: Never underestimate the rebel with a cause. Chillingly, his quotation of Eminems verse from Forgot About Dre (nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got somethin to say but nothin comes out when they move their lips; just a bunch of gibberish) came after the bombings.
full article:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/04/19/dzhokar_tsarnaev_twitter_account_boston_marathon_bombing_suspect_loved_eminem.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content
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Eminem, Nutella, and Edmund Burke: A Close Reading of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Twitter Account (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2013
OP
can people possibly be this dumb or is there method behind their misreadings?
HiPointDem
Apr 2013
#7
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)1. So it's Eminem's fault?
Jesus fucking Christ.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)2. Nobody is suggesting anything like that.
Jesus fucking Christ.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)4. Try reading the entire article, i.e., follow the link...
and then come back to delete your moronic comment.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)5. I did.
Not deleting.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)8. good. let everyone see the silly.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)7. can people possibly be this dumb or is there method behind their misreadings?
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)3. Is the avatar a reference to Ibn-ul-Khattab Lion of Chechnya, Saudi leader of the foreign mujahidin?
Floyd_Gondolli
(1,277 posts)6. So he likes shitty music and bad food