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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just ur routine reminder: every accusation is basically a confession.

Israeli shows Israeli school being used as military base: "The reserves are using it pretty much as a base."

https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/2031575054366933401[/quote]

Iran does it and you are apparently totally fine with anything Iran does so why the outrage if anyone else does it?

Also, Russia bombed hundreds of schools all throughout Ukraine and the world stood by silently and did nothing.  I seriously doubt the outraged "They bombed an Iranian school" poster posted anything at all about that in any of the threads here.[/quote]

I have yet to find a single major social media pundit leading the outrage commentary about Minab who also condemned the Russian bombing of schools in Ukraine for the last 5 years.  Why is that?[/quote]

Because you're lying and trying to deflect.  Almost everyone, except for our dear leader, has condemned Russia's attacks on civilians in Ukraine.[/quote]

When did the pro-Palestine people do this?  When did the pro-Iran posters here do that?  And I don't recall threads going on for 10 days straight over every Ukrainian school like the drumbeat here over Minab.[/quote]

I can't tell you what the phantoms in your head say or explain your inability to remember events from just a few years ago.  There has been widespread coverage and condemnation of Russia's attacks on schools, hospitals, and apartment buildings.[/quote]

General condemnation and by [i]other[/i] accounts, yes.  But not [i]specific[/i] condemnation [i]by the same accounts that are currently the loudest to condemn the Minab attack.[/i][/quote]

You've created your own strawman.  Get off of twitter, it's warping your mind.[/quote]

It's no strawman of my own creation.  I've done the searches.  The top accounts doing the loudest moralistic tweeting about the Minab bombing were silent when schools in Ukraine were being bombed.   That's nothing of my own doing.  I'm merely exposing online hypocrisy, lopsided astroturfing and trolling.   And I'm pretty sure it's happening here on DCUM as well.[/quote]

Congratulations, you just discovered that twitter is a cesspool of manipulation and in no way representative of reality.  The rest of us have know that for years.

People are upset because of what happened not because some random account on twitter says to be upset.  It happened, it was unnecessary, it was not faulty navigation, and it was a war crime.  Not as bad a war crime as what Russia, Israel, or Iran have done but a war crime nonetheless.  We're supposed to be the white hats.  Those other three countries wear their black hats with pride.

The more interesting question, is why did it happen?  I do not think we deliberately blew up a school, even though we did deliberately blow up a building that was a school.  Did AI create the target package?  Did Israel give us the target packages?  I don't know but we do need to find out why so it doesn't happen again.

Pretending that it didn't happen, or that it wasn't us, because twitter bots are amplifying the story is counter productive.[/quote]

I think it was intentional. Pete Hegseth has said no rules of engagement. He has a history from his time in Iraq.

In Iraq in 2006 four members of his company were court-martialed for [b]killing unarmed detainees and by his own recent admissions that he instructed his platoon to ignore legal advice regarding the rules of engagement.[/b] Sounds like he ordered the killing of detainees and civilians in Iraq. I do not know what purpose killing detainees or civilians serve other than to make them fight harder and not surrender.

He ordered the blowing up of civilian boats and the killing of shipwreck survivors.

This fits his pattern of operations. There will be more as long as he and his people are in DOD. I am sure they have committed other crimes in Iran we will hear about eventually. I am sure the Iranians will not surrender because it means sure death. [/quote]

NP. I can’t imagine why someone would purposely target a school, even with changes to the rules of engagement. But I just read an interesting article with a lot of background on how decisions to gut the military programs tasked with preventing harms to civilians could contribute to mistakes of this kind.

https://www.salon.com/2026/03/11/the-us-had-a-blueprint-to-avoid-civilian-war-casualties-trump-officials-scrapped-it-partner/

The article is long and a little disorganized. As someone who doesn’t usually pay attention to military/war news, I read the whole thing and appreciated all the background, but for a tl;dr the parts that seem most relevant here are the beginning about how they fired 90% of the staff responsible for preventing civilian casualties and the very end where they mention the normal procedures for mapping military vs civilian movement patterns in an area in the days or weeks before a bombing. [/quote]

Agree that Trump and Hegseth have made a lot of drastic changes for the worse which is likely impacting US military conduct and use of the US military in force projection.

But by the same token there are clearly posters here who want to instead just broadly bash the US and label us all evil even when many of us did not vote for this and do not support it.  It's a deep, dishonest pattern that repeats all across social media right now.[/quote]

I'm not sure how you really get to that conclusion. Nobody is saying that Iranian citizens are evil just because they're living under an evil government. Same with Russian citizens and their evil government. And same with US citizens and our evil administration.[/quote]

Unfortunately the same cannot be said for Israeli society where the majority of the population had supported genocide/ethnic cleansing of Gaza in addition to preemptive war with Iran. That is one society that is truly evil. [/quote]

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