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Comparing Dzhokhar Sympathizers to Beliebers Is Tempting However Terrible

Now, over a week after the attack, the discussion about the two young brothers allegedly responsible for planting bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line is taking some pretty weird turns.

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Now, over a week after the attack, the discussion about the two young brothers allegedly responsible for planting bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line is taking some pretty weird turns. You can follow the conversation around those weird turns with , where tweets of support for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger brother who's still alive, are flowing in at an alarming rate — about one tweet every ten seconds to be you're used to hearing about at Infowars (including more than a new links to the site itself) as well as more run-of-the-mill skeptics, those who're confused by media coverage and eager to see the case play out in court.

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