| ▲ | gruez 9 hours ago |
| >this is not proof of a mistake. The "proof" of the mistake is Hanlon's razor and the fact that the school was adjacent a military facility and the building itself used to be for military purposes. |
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| ▲ | 10xDev 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Too consistent, too frequent, too precise to be explained away as "stupid": https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ce9mz0gl8z7o |
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| ▲ | gruez 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | From the description: >Footage from Russian state broadcaster RT has captured the moment a missile lands just a few feet from where its reporter was broadcasting in southern Lebanon. What's this supposed to be proof of? That because a bombing happened near a journalist, that he must have been intentionally targeted? Does the US even have capabilities to track journalists in Iran, of all places? Given that journalists are specifically going into war zones, what even is the expected amount of journalists to get bombed, from pure chance alone? | | |
| ▲ | squibonpig an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Israel has a track record with the coincidentally anti-journalist ordinance. At some point you land a coin on heads twenty times and have to think maybe the coin is weighted. | |
| ▲ | fmajid 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That was a missile attack by Israeli forces, not US ones. |
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| ▲ | watwut 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Hanlon's razor At this point, Hanlon's razor should be considered a fallacy. In fact, quite a lot of what looked like incompetence was malice. Intentional and proud malice. It does not mean there is no incompetence, but Hanlon's razor is no longer valid. Second, army working group meant to ensure these mistakes wont happen was dismantled by Hegseth. All the while he framed such efforts as woke nonsense and praised lethality only. He was sending clear message about what matters to troops The system was changed to allow and facilite errors like that. |
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| ▲ | scarecrowbob 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I wonder if there is some kind of new law that we should be looking at drafting, in which we hold accountable folks who attribute bad actions to incompetence instead of malice despite the actors being explicitly malicious? I think that covers a lot of western media in all the wars the US has waged in my lifetime: it's always "a regrettable (but worthwhile) mistake" until it's a "horrific but unique war crime"... it's never "who the fuck said these vicious idiots could kill whoever they want and never face just and material consequences for their crimes". This shit certainly seems intentional. Maybe the folks who are attributing things to "incompetence" are just projecting their own incompetencies in interpreting the world, but at this point I suspect that they to are complicit in this malice. |
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