This is what it was like to follow along on Twitter in the wake of the killing of Qasem Soleimani. bridgetgillard writes
Photo: Getty Images I was 12 years old in March 2003, when I watched footage of the United States bombing Baghdad on cable TV. I don’t know what time it was, but I know I was wearing pajamas; I remember because on television it was nighttime in Iraq. The city glowed grainy in nightscope-vision green, until it was lit up by a storm of bright white projectiles from the sky. I thought about how some of those people down there must be wearing pajamas.
Last night, as news broke that Iranian general Qasem Soleimani had been killed by U.S. forces via targeted airstrike in Baghdad, I wasn’t watching TV. I don’t pay for cable — instead, I was on Twitter. There were no pictures or videos of Soleimani’s assassination. I was processing the event mostly with words, live, along with thousands of people; what I was watching was them.
I was watching them and I was also watching myself, as I felt a creeping urge to share my own reaction, to say something, to respond to this death a world away from my computer. I was in my pajamas. My “take” was forming, with a sense that if I expressed it, the thing that was happening and the anxiety it caused would be over, for me at least. I would post and then I could go to bed. At that feeling — this promise of comfort and satisfaction, of doing my part — I was absolutely horrified.
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