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[–] Aatube@thriv.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

my goodness, this is probably the first accident rescue post I've seen that's also OrphanCrushingMachine

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Curious which part you think makes it orphan crushing. Is it the whole trespass bit?

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah I also dont really see what makes this orphancrushingmachine, I'd be curious to hear their thoughts

[–] Aatube@thriv.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the horror of being trapped in mud like that

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"orphan crushing machine" is an analogy for the horrors of capitalism, not literally being crushed

[–] Aatube@thriv.social 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

fair point. I feel about this the same way though, because both are the consequences of events that should not have ever happened in the first place

~~one could argue it's the fault of capitalism that his support system is so bad that he only trusts going to a borrow pit to let out his depression from his breakup~~

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Construction and trespassing would happen even without capitalism though