The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.

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nielsbot4 days ago
> 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.

alendit4 days ago
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.

Eddy_Viscosity24 days ago
> 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.

surgical_fire4 days ago
Or, you know, the US just bombed a fucking school. I don't even think this was accidental.

And accident would imply they didn't want to bomb a school but this happened due to an honest mistake (already a tall order when you are dropping bombs in an area with civilian infrastructure).

In truth it was probably that the US didn't care about the collateral damage of bombing targets regardless of what is there.

Let's not pretend the US has much issues killing civilians in other countries. Your president just gave a speech at the UN talking about "annihilating Iran" and "driving them into hell".

Even after that people still contort their thoughts in the illusion that the US would never bomb a school. Imagine if Iran's president gave a speech talking the same way about Israel or the US, would you give Iran the same benefit of doubt?

nielsbot3 days ago
This is “Iranian Regime Derangement Syndrome”

1. Iran’s strongest weapon is keeping Hormuz closed. 2. Those who want to blow up Iran also influence public support (and government support too, I’d add) 3. The military “excursion” is already incredibly unpopular but that hasn’t stopped Trump or other racist POS Hegseth or even all the GOP and even some dems from keeping it going.

Absolutely the Iranian government murdered protesters but it’s a stretch to also say they’d “happily” somehow get the US the bomb a school.

It’s a dumb strategy anyway. We’re still blowing up kids in Gaza and calling them future terrorists and crisis actors and saying “what about their pre-existing health conditions” about kids who died of starvation.

Yes, we are the baddies.

johnnyApplePRNG4 days ago
May 3, 2025

When the protester said, "Your AI and your technology from Palantir kills Palestinians,"

Karp replied: "Mostly terrorists, that's true."

https://fight.fudgie.org/search/show/cspan/episode/20250503_...

tobadzistsini4 days ago
Everything about Palantir and Joe Lonsdale are just so gleefully evil that one can not help but laugh at their ignorance.
wahnfrieden4 days ago
Lonsdale was also accused of rape and is quoted as saying that women need to be raped to learn to respect men.
GuestFAUniverse4 days ago
So, the prototypical a*hole to say "made us hit things". The blame the victim playbook.

Astonishing with how much you can get away with by wearing a suit. If he would be wearing rugs, a lynch mob would beat the shit out of him. I'm not implying that's desirable, I'm just baffled by societies criteria, which swing from one extreme to another. And neither one makes sense.

e404 days ago
Add that him and Thiel are billionaires and it gets terrifying.
surgical_fire4 days ago
St. Luigi was jailed for our sins.
2OEH8eoCRo04 days ago
I think the world and even Americans are getting real tired of these techies and they're going to pay for it.

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