Carpet bombing implies unguided munitions.

Its indiscriminate because it is poorly aimed.

But it is absolutely possible to discriminately bomb non military targets. Like it seems likely was the case with the girls school.

I'm tired, boss.

I don't know what's true anymore.

I feel like I only have enough actual objective truth of anything to know that we (the US) are the bad guys...and that's about it. That's really not much, out of the whole picture and events of the past week or so.

Do I trust the US state-sponsored media, or the Iran state-sponsored media? Obviously both will be littered with propaganda cheering their own side and jeering their opposition.

Do we look at other international outlets? Who the fuck is even on US's side anymore? Or even neutral?? Enough to actually provide unbiased truth?

Do I turn to social media, for the vox populi, for the boots on the ground from actual people in Iran? But then how do we know they are in Iran, and not a troll farm? We don't.

And if we have Iranian-American friends or neighbors, their perspective is likely skewed as well...you don't know where they are getting their information from. Are they getting it from people they actually, personally, in the 1990s definition of the word, know in Iran, or some rando on Facebook that they are "friends" with? And their reasons for leaving Iran may also influence their perspective on the news, as well.

And then, then...there's the charlatans. The people out there that are finding putting together two and two to make 7. Adding to the static that's surrounding us constantly.

It's way, way, way too much to think about, man. Post-truth America sucks.

You have to be a psychopath to remain rational about this stuff.

Hyperbole is not to the aid of the victims here. You can say school have been bomb, since the evidence exists for it. You can say oil infrastructure has been bombed.

But saying residential neighbourhoods have been carpet bombed, when clearly they have not, just serves the US/Israeli propaganda, as it reduces the level of trustworthiness of the things that are true.

One of the worst things about this conflict for the Iranian people is that so little open source media makes its way out of the country, because the internet has been switched off by the government. The little that is getting out always has the suspicion of propaganda hanging over it.

Look at Ukraine. They have managed to keep a level of trustworthiness to the point where no-one believes Russian internationally and an increasingly fewer number of Russians do. They have also kept their internet running unhindered.