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Jewish Americans and Allies Occupy Trump Tower Demanding Release of Mahmoud Khalil.
(www.commondreams.org)
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
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Ah, the old Orphan crushing machine.
Downvoted for using a meme correctly. (-8 as of posting)
The Orphan Crushing Machine is about something being absurdly misplaced—like this post in this community.
Lemmy is supposed to be better than Reddit. We left to escape mindless herd voting and knee-jerk reactions. Yet here we are, letting numbers think for us.
This post doesn’t belong here. It’s not uplifting. It’s depressing as all fuck. It is the Orphan Crushing Machine.
No? It's a metaphor for an "uplifting" story that's not actually uplifting at all since it's "about someone remedying the immediate effects of a sociopolitical issue that ignore the root cause of said issue."
Sometime ago somebody posted a news story about X person/organisation paying off the lunch debt of pupils. That was an orphan crushing machine moment, why can a kid in elementary school have "lunch debt" in the first place?
This is not that, one could argue it's not that uplifting but it has nothing to do with orphan crushing machine.