The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive

Iran’s parents had just dropped their children off for class on Saturday morning when they found themselves racing back to school gates, as bombs began to fall across the country in a joint US-Israel attack.

At one elementary school, according to Iran’s state-controlled media, they arrived to find devastation. At least 80 children had been killed in the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, the IRNA news agency reported, with dozens more unaccounted for.

In one video circulating on social media, purportedly showing the immediate aftermath of the strike, smoke rises from the burnt-out walls, and debris lies spread across the road. Hundreds of onlookers gathered at the site, some in obvious distress. Screams can be heard in the background. The report of the bombing, its death toll and the video’s source could not immediately be independently verified by the Guardian. Persian factchecking service Factnameh was able to cross-reference the video with other photographs of the school site, and concluded that the video was authentic. Reuters said it had also verified the footage as being from the school.

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[–] 135 points 8 months ago (32 children)

Fucker is either murdering kids or raping them.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (16 children)

    Someone on Reddit wrote they are hoping for a stroke, 223 upvotes.

    I added "I am team blood clot." and got a 3 day ban, lol.

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  • [–] 38 points 8 months ago (11 children)
  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    I tried fully switching to Lemmy, but the content was lacking. Sure, you got communities for everything, but they are pretty much dead.

    For example on r/Nvidia I immediately see news about new driver updates and the changelogs. On Lemmy it's dead.

    Similar to other subreddits, be it for certain games or other topics :-/

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  • [–] 37 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Be the change you want to see.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    i mean i am the change i want to see, make hundreds of posts, lemmy is still dead and i need reddit for content?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (6 children)

    Then... Go outside more? I donno, stop propping up that fascist bullshit.

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  • [+] -8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    nah right now the quality of content here id put on par with youtube comment section

    the people here also appear to mostly be american leftwing progressives who feel the need to inject complaints about “the west” and “capitalism” as a by word for America all day every day

    so it’s a left wing shithole with minimal quality content beyond shitty left wing memes and shitty 1 line snarky comments

    sorry the fascist place is better? make better content? comment on things that aren’t yet more left wing politics?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    im not going, i hate this place too much to leave

    i also love downvotes

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  • [+] -16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (12 children)

    you know like a few weeks ago the iranian regime killed upwards of 30,000 people? thousands who were students?

    did this even register on your radar?

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    So killing more is better right? Certainly doing this whole war is going to benefit the Iranian people?

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  • [+] -8 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    iranians are literally in the streets cheering and setting off fireworks right now

    https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ntx3czqn5rI

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    "look at the propaganda that proves me right!"

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    I bet if enough people cheered you to jump off a bridge you would do it lol

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    you know like a few weeks ago the iranian regime killed upwards of 30,000 people?

    Isn't this something CIA / Mossad made up to justify attacking Iran? It hasn't been independently verified as far as I know.

    Verified deaths are about a thousand 'protestors', and about two thousand police and civilians.

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  • [–] 78 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    What's that thing when people are killed for no real strategic purpose? 🤔

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    There is a strategic purpose...

    They don't want peace, even if that's because they won.

    They want a constant war as an excuse for why they can be the only ones in power.

    Killing a bunch of kids, makes sure the other side won't surrender. Even if the government does, you can claim all the people who want to kill your for killing kids are terrorists, and that they didn't surrender.

    Which makes it even worse.

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  • [–] 215 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    God fucking damnit, so fucking frustrating. Another 30+ years of "terrorists" because people will avenge war crimes committed by the US. This is maddening.

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  • [–] 63 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Another 30+ years of “terrorists”

    We were never going to hear the end of "Muslim Terrorist" rhetoric, because it was instrumental in justifying our dominion over the region.

    There isn't going to be another 9/11. We're well past the point of needing a causa belli for this kind of war. It'll just be ICE goons murdering parents in front of crying children and CNN talking heads explaining how we're safer because of it.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Another 30+ years of “terrorists”

    America claims its attacks are to stop 'terrorists', but it's exactly those actions that are creating 'terrorists'. And they're fully justified in becoming 'terrorists' imo.

    If I lived in Iran, I'd certainly want revenge for this.

    (here I'm using the word terrorist to mean 'enemy of Americas administration', as that's what America has turned that word into)


    Prior to this attack, as well as the bunker busters dropped last year: I do not believe Iran is/was creating nuclear weapons.

    Since these two attacks however, I believe they'd be justified in seeking such weapons simply because America has proven over and over that no nation is safe without them.

    In short; I don't think they are/were, but I do think they should be in response. As much as I don't like nuclear proliferation, I'm much much more against deliberately killing innocents, particularly children.


    Perhaps I'd have a different opinion if America/Israel struck military targets; but they didn't. They struck homes, schools, and other civilians.

    America is truly a Terrorist State, if not just a lap dog of Israel's genocidal regime.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    it’s exactly those actions that are creating ‘terrorists’

    Even this hasn't born out. We're not seeing waves of terrorism on US soil by foreigners or radicalized domestics.

    We're seeing police brutality by state officials aimed anyone who "looks like a terrorist", with some spycops bullshit to entrap a few useful idiots along the way.

    Perhaps I’d have a different opinion if America/Israel struck military targets;

    They're dismantling the ability of the Iranian state to defend it's sovereignty so they can bomb and assassinate locals with impunity.

    They're also randomly killing civilians, because these military strikes aren't as precise or informed as the leadership wants you to believe

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Another 30+ years of “terrorists”

    I don't think that the US imperial regime is going to last that long

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    I can see it, not through being overthrown but by immense incompitence as its run by people who are so detatched that they don't even really understand where food comes from and so up their own asses that they genuinely believe chat GPT can perform complex real world tasks.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago

    Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking. All suicide bombers need to do is say "this was for those schoolgirls" and it's kind of hard to disagree with them.

    The problem is that the people committing these atrocities face no legal justice, so it's up to vigilantes to do it instead.

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  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    This will definitely keep America safe and absolutely not produce any radicalized terrorists.

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  • [–] 36 points 8 months ago* (8 children)

    Remember when we all condemned Russia for hitting those schools in Ukraine? And, of course, they're still doing it.

    I guess not all of us did.

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  • [+] -8 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    At one elementary school, according to Iran’s state-controlled media, they arrived to find devastation. At least 80 children had been killed in the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, the IRNA news agency reported, with dozens more unaccounted for.

    Why are you believing the state media of an authoritarian extremist state?

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Because there is video evidence of it...? I saw a tiny pink backpack with bloody handprints on it as soon as I saw the video of people screaming outside the school

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  • [+] -11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Do you have a link to that video?

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    For anyone else reading this, FG_3479 has other posts promoting deportation and suggesting some immigrants are simply "wired for crime".

    I don't think there's any need to engage with someone who has such a clear absence of compassion or humanity.

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  • [+] -9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I do not think you should simply pick random people off the street and deport them.

    I think that illegal immigrants should be given a chance to go through the process to become legal, and that process should be cheaper and faster than it is now.

    The people I want deported are those such as drug dealers and terrorists.

    Also, my "wired for crime" comment was not targeted towards immigrants but instead criminals. It was in a thread about police.

    I have said all of this before in a earlier comment:

    The people I'm worried about are criminals who are not caught at the border and that the government doesn't know about.

    We need to both get rid of them and make the legal routes faster and cheaper to isolate criminals from innocent people.

    Currently illegal immigrants should be given a path to legallity if they are willing to provide the documents and have done nothing wrong in both the UK and their home countries.

    I hope you understand my views now.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago*

    No one is illegal on stolen land. The United States has no actual right to exist, and therefore has no actual right to deport people.

    Drug dealers are supplying a demand created by citizens and governments have no right to tell people what substances they may or may not put in their own bodies. You address harmful drug use by providing people with a life they don't feel a desperate need to escape from, not by taking anyone's freedom.

    I understand your views just as I understood them before. I understand that you're attempting to downplay the murder of children by imperialists and probably have a biased or vested interest in doing so.

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  • [–] 69 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Pretty sure targeting children's schools breaches the Geneva Convention rules of war. Although Israel will say they're a cover for a military base

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    The school wasn't targeted, dum dum. There was a military building very close to the school and despite what you see in the movies, most missiles launched in wars aren't all that perfect at hitting their intended target.

    I'm not defending Trump or Israel or the strikes. I'm just defending against the ignorance if you spreading misinformation that wouldn't even make sense to do intentionally to begin with. Trump regime wanted to make sure Israel struck first because they thought it would look better that way to US voters. You think he intentionally wanted the flak from bombing a grade school?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    That was my first thought but the BBC are reporting the school was ~600m from the IRGC base which is well beyond the CEP of modern guided munitions (even if they lose GPS signal, JDAMs should have a CEP of <= 30m on inertial guidance alone). So I dunno, catastrophic intelligence failure or a result of an attempted interception seem to be the leading theories that I can see now.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I can see incompetence, some sort of missile failure, or Iranian defense having something to do with it. There's no purposeful reason to intentionally hit a single grade school. At least not from the US. It would be counter to anything Trumpet would want. I could only see it as an open possibility from Israel if they wanted to intentionally prolong the war in order to slaughter Iranians by enraging them to make them not want to turn against their current government as much.

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  • [–] 50 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Americans and Israelis when these particular roosters will inevitably come home to roost: "why do they hate us?".

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    A super majority of Americans are anti-Israel. This is a strawman that isn't applicable anymore. Democrats are about to sweep in mid-terms as a consequence of this action + Gaza + ICE.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    That's entirely irrelevant to any radicalized Iranian who saw American bombs killing innocent school children.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I think you misunderstand. The point is that everyone in the US knows exactly why “they hate us” — it is not a mystery to anyone. This is a straw man in the truest sense; you’d be hard pressed to find a US citizen who authentically poses this question.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    How about we all simultaneously lobby our representatives to impeach this entire evil administration?

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Still counting on representatives to solve this mess aye? General strike until that orange turd is in jail I'd say.

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