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.
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.
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.
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.