Reuters say fifteen people were injured, but no life-threatening injuries. Which is surprisingly good news when four thousand pounds of bombs get dropped on you.
That still leaves cripples, invalids, and all sorts of situations with people left alive. "Not dead" shouldn't be treated as an automatic win, it's just as easy to use for gaslighting as many other positively spun terms.
Can tell not everyone is alert enough to the weasel wording and PR speak when they're saying shit like "no casualties" here.
There were at least 15 reported casualties here, just no fatalities. Propagandist spin maestros love to use those two like they're synonymous so they can switch at will to selectively down-play or overstate the harm through careful phrasing. And they've done it so much now that the confusion has even seeped into common usage.
And yes some of those casualties are probably going to have their lives changed forever. Permanent deafness, missing limbs, brain damage, they're all pretty likely outcomes for anyone in that car at the very least.
Honestly, I didn't even take "no casualties" to mean that - I thought FrozeInFear meant the casualties were currently unknown. It wouldn't make sense to say no injuries have occurred yet, since if injuries were going to occur it would be when they got bombed.
According to Websters 1828 dictionary "casualty" always referred to accidental death. So this is not a case of them changing definitions, but definitely trying to downplay things.
8 500 lbs bombs and no deaths is an automatic win.
It's not a good win, and everyone now gets a free TBI with or without a hospital stay, but being alive after that is still a win given the circumstances here.
Reuters say fifteen people were injured, but no life-threatening injuries. Which is surprisingly good news when four thousand pounds of bombs get dropped on you.
That still leaves cripples, invalids, and all sorts of situations with people left alive. "Not dead" shouldn't be treated as an automatic win, it's just as easy to use for gaslighting as many other positively spun terms.
Can tell not everyone is alert enough to the weasel wording and PR speak when they're saying shit like "no casualties" here.
There were at least 15 reported casualties here, just no fatalities. Propagandist spin maestros love to use those two like they're synonymous so they can switch at will to selectively down-play or overstate the harm through careful phrasing. And they've done it so much now that the confusion has even seeped into common usage.
And yes some of those casualties are probably going to have their lives changed forever. Permanent deafness, missing limbs, brain damage, they're all pretty likely outcomes for anyone in that car at the very least.
That's on me. I thought 'casualties' was more or less interchangeable with deaths.
Hasn't been the case as long as I've been alive, but most people think it's the case.
Trying to look over historical battles and watching people get confused between deaths and injured is effectively a recreational sport for me.
Honestly, I didn't even take "no casualties" to mean that - I thought FrozeInFear meant the casualties were currently unknown. It wouldn't make sense to say no injuries have occurred yet, since if injuries were going to occur it would be when they got bombed.
According to Websters 1828 dictionary "casualty" always referred to accidental death. So this is not a case of them changing definitions, but definitely trying to downplay things.
Not dead but your cock and balls were mutilated by flying shrapnel and you have to shit out of a bag for the rest of your life.
8 500 lbs bombs and no deaths is an automatic win.
It's not a good win, and everyone now gets a free TBI with or without a hospital stay, but being alive after that is still a win given the circumstances here.
Yeah, I was gonna say those gotta be 500 lbs bombs with the size of those blasts.
That's fantastic news that that's all we lost.