Comments | acalculatedname: soon it's further than you ever said it'd go / four stars in the Rolling Stone OHHHHHH

acalculatedname

soon it's further than you ever said it'd go / four stars in the Rolling Stone OHHHHHH

Jul 22, 2013 10:48

Today, 7/22/13, is Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev's 20th birthday! I'm sure he's having a great one, wherever he's being detained and most likely viciously beaten and tortured at every possible opportunity.

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acalculatedname July 22 2013, 17:20:29 UTC

I recently read a really fascinating story (in the Washington Post, of all places) about the epidemic of people leaving their infants in their car in summertime to be roasted alive, without ever having realized what they've done until it is too late. That story is particularly fascinating for the deeply divided responses to those who have done it / gone through it-- you have their clergy going out of their way to support them, and people on the blogs screaming they should be burned at the stake ( ... )

adoptedwriter July 22 2013, 18:06:15 UTC

I'm sure I do t have all the facts about what happened, but I do feel bad for the parents of these guys. They are helpless thousands of miles away.
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acalculatedname July 22 2013, 22:25:03 UTC

The RS article seems to suggest the mom may have in some way been complicit in encouraging the older brother toward his weird brand of extremism rather than getting him help for mental illness, which may or may not have led to what followed and the younger brother's getting dragged along for the ride. No idea if there's truth to it or not, but I have definitely seen what parents in denial can do to enable their ill / late-20s children.

majesticzaichik July 23 2013, 02:07:20 UTC

OMG SYMPATHIZER! YOU WILL DIE IN HELL!! Ok sorry, bad joke. I'm not sure about how the media is spinning how little bro there was just "brainwashed" and it was all because of the elder Tsarnaev's scheming, but I don't think he will get much of a fair trial. I don't really feel sorry for him at all, but I'm glad that their act didn't do as much damage as they wanted. I don't really know many Bostonians, so I'm naive to the whole blood thirst. I just know Tsarnaev will pay for his actions, to the full extent of the law. This won't be a Zimmerman type of trial anyway :/.

acalculatedname July 23 2013, 23:33:07 UTC

Yeah, it definitely won't be a "Zimmerman type of trial," :/ indeed.

porn_this_way July 23 2013, 02:16:28 UTC

Did you just...Blingee a picture of the (suspected) Boston Marathon bomber?! Please calculate the exact velocity and trajectory at which I would (theoretically of course) be going STRAIGHT TO HELL for laughing at that.

In all seriousness - you've got some damn good points in here. (Though I think we've already established we're in each other's brains sometimes, so it's prob'ly not a huge shock that I think so.) People desperately want evil to have a face, and they want that face to be easily definable, easily recognizable, and not look anything like them. But, surprise surprise, reality doesn't always fit into neat little stereotypical boxes. Honestly, what was Rolling Stone supposed to do, photoshop the picture to age the dude 30 years, hack off the fluffy curls, give him Osama bin Laden's beard, and make it look like he's burning an American flag while smoking crack with preschoolers and taking a leak on the Lincoln Memorial? People aren't mad at Rolling Stone, they're mad that their mental image of "terrorist" doesn't fit in a ( ... )

acalculatedname July 23 2013, 23:45:30 UTC

And weirdly enough, they're shooting like the fifteenth major-media messenger to run the exact same "message." That's the part that really fucks with my mind. I've seen attempts to explain the "wrongness" in terms of "but the Rolling Stone cover means something," and no matter how hard they try to support that argument with evidence out of the RS back catalog, to me that argument utterly fails as well.

You may be interested to know that, for the very first (and surely very last) time ever, I posted on 4chan /b/ yesterday - I wanted to test this image on those notoriously heartless kiddos before I tried it here. The reaction was absolutely nothing like what I expected, uniformly stuff like "fucker should have been shot before he ever turned 20"... and then the post was actually removed (!!!) after less than an hour. Maybe a mod got nervous that it would attract the wrong kind of attention?

I guess that probably should have stopped me, but I had ten minutes invested in the Photoshop job, so meh. :)

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acalculatedname July 23 2013, 23:51:28 UTC

I too assume he had some involvement - I'm just not sure it's the level of involvement that has always been maintained. My own personal feeling is that he couldn't get out of helping his brother, or at least giving the appearance of helping his brother, and couldn't bring himself to turn in his brother either, but that was about all. If that is the real story, it's still of course horrific that he let it go down, but it's a very different story than actually building the bombs and planning the attack ( ... )