The Terrifying Revelation About Trump’s Strike on Iran Girls’ School

https://newrepublic.com/post/207199/donald-trump-strike-iran-girls-school

Did President Donald Trump order a deadly military strike on a girls’ elementary school in Iran because the Pentagon was using an out-of-date map?

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Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 174d (6 replies)

I doubt that Trump is targeting anything beyond "Iran", he can't lead a military operation in any capacity.

He couldn't manage a McDonald's.

imrighthere@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 174d (1 reply)

The only thing he runs is his mouth.

UniversalBasicJustice@quokk.au · 7 pts · 174d

And his pants

Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 174d (1 reply)

Yeah, the idea he's ordering specific strikes doesn't ring true to me.

SaltySalamander@fedia.io · 17 pts · 174d

I'm willing to bet that Palantir is what's telling them where to strike.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 174d

He's not in charge, either.

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 174d

The only reason he even remembers McDonalds is because it has so much his name.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 174d (2 replies)

I’m betting they asked Claude or Grok or whatever Palantir’s FORINT/Secret Police model is and didn’t bother doing any additional auditing whatsoever because “AI is amazing” 😬

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 174d (1 reply)

They are starting to do this where I work. It is going to be an absolute disaster.

Diurnambule@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 173d

It is 95% fiable do not worry. Another guy will catch the 5%

UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 33 pts · 174d (1 reply)

I think they ordered a strike on a girls school because they thought it would be funny to show how non-woke they are. Remember: these guys are as evil as they are stupid.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 173d

Yeah, hanlon's razor does not apply when dealing with actively malicious people and, uh, the last ten years...

Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 174d

Israel pointed and America pulled the trigger.

Xenny@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 174d (8 replies)

With satellight imagery these days im casting doubt on this theory

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 174d

The fuckers know every time I fart, I imagine they knew exactly where they were aiming

frongt@lemmy.zip · -9 pts · 174d (6 replies)

Most building roofs don't tell you that much. Especially in a city with multi-tenant buildings.

towerful@programming.dev · 12 pts · 174d (3 replies)

You're telling me recon of the area never showed kids playing outside the building?!
What are they using, Google fucking maps?

Creddit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 174d (2 replies)

It is very common for buildings in Iran to be surrounded by high cement walls and fully enclosed courtyards, even private residences. This is partly due to their oppressive regime and a desire to keep having parties and generally normal private indoor lives.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 174d (1 reply)

Because starlink can't see over, amirite? Grfooh

Creddit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 173d

No, it often cannot. That's what I mean by "fully enclosed", and I can see how you might have thought I just meant walls and no roof. I should have been more clear, but I was trying to differentiate between just having walls vs having full private enclosure for recreational spaces, which is common in Iran and also in a good chunk of other countries.

Schools or gyms often do have roofs as well, with vents or small/high windows for air circulation but no way to actually see inside because physical privacy is especially valued in Iran - not just because of the government but also because of cultural and religious traditions.

urandom@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 173d

Taking satellite pictures at an angle though gives you quite a bit of information.

mlg@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 173d

Buddy they literally have a 24/7 live video feed available, with enough resolution to make out a sheet of paper.

That's how they kept their eyes on the supreme leader's exact movements.

China even published snapshots of a ton of locations immediately after they were struck.

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 23 pts · 174d (3 replies)

Western media and trying to justify western war crimes. Name a more iconic duo. You can't.

imrighthere@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 174d (1 reply)

america and shooting school kids. I did.

UniversalBasicJustice@quokk.au · 7 pts · 174d

Aren't those the same duo though? I'm pretty sure America justifying killing children and American justifying killing children are the same picture.

Drusas@fedia.io · 8 pts · 174d

Explaining is not the same as justifying.

SecretSauces@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 174d (2 replies)

The Trump Administration and incompetence. Name a more iconic duo.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 174d

He did exactly what was intended.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 173d

with Krasnov, never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 13 pts · 174d

Oh 🐂 💩. He did it because the Zionists do it and their people applaud them, and because the USA is extremely comfortable with genocide, since founding. Ask the few remaining unmixed indigenous here, if they can be found.

frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 12 pts · 174d

This sort of thing happens every time we bomb the middle east, because we simply don't give a fuck about civilians without moneyed interest. This is a feature of middle east wars because their lives are valued less. The white supremacists must be thrilled though, none of those girls will ever make non-white babies to replace them.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 173d (1 reply)

because the Pentagon was using an out-of-date map?

That would be unsurprising. I recall during the W admin, maybe Obama I just remember where I lived, they did a drone strike on a "militant group" that they did a typo on the name but blew up and killed the wrong group including their families and children and a wedding, and oh yeah they were totally militants after the fact but no one had heard of them before.

It's just Standard Operating Procedure for the US Military I guess is my point.

Stamau123@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 173d

First_Thunder@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 174d

I think that that would be the best case scenario

venusaur@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 174d

If that’s “terrifying” what is it called if they intentionally targeted the school?

electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 174d

They're all evil from trump on down to the peon or pilot who pulled the trigger.

DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 173d

He raped children.

Now he's killing them.

SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 174d

Trump and his cabinet are so inept he is asking reporters/columnists what he should do with Iran. All because he believes Bibi's 30yrs of lies regarding Iran being "close" to having nuclear weapons.

Carmakazi@piefed.social · 3 pts · 174d (1 reply)

It was close enough to a military base that one might extrapolate that it was a deliberate act of state terror on Iranian military families.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 0 pts · 174d

Ok Zionist. For the record, Mossad HQ sits under a posh apartment complex.

Siegfried@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 173d

Well, last time i heard of an american war crime, the yankees took like 2 months to admit that those terrorists loading weapons into a truck were actually humanitarian help sorrounded with children, loading water into a truck... if this is the real reason, i call it progress

Well done americans!

HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 174d

probably had some evidence sitting around.

twinnie@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 174d

I’d wait to point blame over this, we have no idea what happened. The Iranians were murdering thousands of their own civilians just a few weeks ago, they’re hardly a reliable source of information. They’re obviously going to inflate the numbers and craft a story to whatever helps the regime.

ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 174d

Old maps? More like future maps. And killing civilians, mainly children, has always been used by the USI. To me it seems to say that they can do it, and no one will stop them, or stand in their way, because they'll do the same to those who oppose. Kind of like don't fuck with us because we have no boundaries when it comes to death and destruction, and we are above the law mothafuckas. We rape and eat babies, we are the monsters!