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1. nielsbot · 1790485326 · focus · HN ↗

   > Iran’s leaders “might have purposely disguised some of these things to make them look like targets, the same way the Palestinians and others do,” Lonsdale said.

   Ah—the old “murder our kids for sympathy” ploy. which has worked… when?

   What an absolute murderous and racist piece shit this guy is.

   1. alendit · 1790498270 · focus · HN ↗

      Which works approximately all the time against Western powers? Influencing / manipulating public support is the strongest weapon the non-Western adversaries have right now.

      People seem to be struggling to hold two, not-even-conflicting thoughts at the same time: the school bombing, even though clearly accidental, is reprehensible from our moral perspective and is a direct product of callous way the intervention has been conducted AND the Iranian leadership would happily sacrifice thousands of "their own" children to get an edge in this conflict by reducing the political support for the further escalation. We are talking about the regime which killed tens of thousand of "their own" citizens just a couple months prior.

      1. Eddy_Viscosity2 · 1790509920 · focus · HN ↗

         > clearly accidental

         I think the word you were looking for was 'negligent'. As in the bombing was 'clearly negligent'. It wasn't something that just happened, it was something that high ranking officials purposefully did and they did it negligently.

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