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    “But yeah, I don’t know whose money this is. Maybe someone saved it for their child. Maybe it belongs to someone who really needs it,” Al-Ali said

    When individuals are more honest than their societies.

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      Campaign collects €50,000 for homeless Amsterdammer who was punched in the face after a campaign collected €30,000 for him after returning lost wallet with €2,000

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    I really don’t get this shit…

    Reminds me of kids working OT to pay off friend’s lunch debt… clown society

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        Good old pookleblinky - really sad I haven’t been able to follow them since I jumped ship at Twitter.

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        Never heard of the term but YES!

        Since most people don’t click links:

        The orphan-crushing machine is luckily just a metaphor for the way media tends present the stories in which a person remedies the effects of sociopolitical injustice as “heartwarming” without questioning why said injustice exists in the first place. The metaphor satirizes these stories by comparing them to a person raising money to keep 200 orphans from getting crushed while nobody questions why an orphan-crushing machine exists and runs in the first place.

        The orphan-crushing machine can also be interpreted as a metaphor for late-stage capitalism, where useless products and infrastructure can be produced with the single purpose of further inflating business numbers and creating jobs.

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      Sorry what exactly is it that you don’t get? That people would show empathy and help this guy out?