[somenameforme]

The most interesting thing to me is that he was apparently assassinated while working at his office. It's not like the US/Israeli actions were a secret, yet he seemingly made no effort to secure himself. It's hard not to see this as an intentional martyrdom. So it will be interesting to see whether his calculations were correct, or whether the US' were.

The one thing I think must be true is that I can't imagine an 86 year old cleric was an especially effective leader. So assassinating him is quite the gamble. I'd love to know what the military's chatbots thought about this idea.

[wiseowise]

Prophets are more dangerous when they're dead. At 86 he would either die from old age or fighting "imperialistic, evil" Israel/US.

[_DeadFred_]

This Prophet believed/taught that school girls should be raped before they are executed for not wearing hats so that they can't get into heaven (believing God would judge a child for being raped).

Should a believer/teacher of such things even be called a prophet? Old boy was straight trash with a horrific morality.

[ifwinterco]

Supposedly he had a very deep bunker under his house but he came up for meetings.

So the real problem for Iran is that mossad seem to know exactly when he was vulnerable i.e. there are spies within the inner circles of the IRGC

Edit: Or some very effective high tech surveillance, but that's also not good news to put it mildly

[Cipater]

>I'd love to know what the military's chatbots thought about this idea.

What a mad world we're hurtling ourselves into.

[mindslight]

"You're thinking about this just like a professional warfighter would"

I'd say the main contemporary dynamic of the times is hallucination. Not necessary by LLMs per se, but rather by the humans wielding them to mainline their own bullshit.

In a way Grump himself is just society's own embodied hallucination from decades of Republican marketing hopium. Some scraps of dignity are surely about to trickle down any day now, once those mean libuhruls are out of the way.

(the "warfighter" terminology-coddling obviously coming from the user prompt)

[urikaduri]

He was assasinated during a meeting with many other high ranking members of the regime. I doubt they decided on collective suicide.

[throwawayheui57]

> intentional martyrdom

He didn’t play 4D chess. I’d bet on pure hubris.

[dotancohen]

Why would you assume that someone with decades of experience could not be an effective leader?

[throwaway173738]

People lose cognition as they age.

[wvlia5]

Because he would be senile.