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Etymology
From a Twitter post by @pookleblinky on September 25, 2020:
"Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used."
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Noun
orphan-crushing machine (plural orphan-crushing machines)
- (Internet slang) A notional machine representing a system or process that obviously facilitates suffering but is not acknowledged or examined, or for which no alternative is considered.
2023 February 15, @lepetitereboot, Twitter:"we live in a society", said the orphan-crushing machine operator
2023 August 9, @DreadBirate, Twitter:“ the orphan crushing machine isn’t the problem, it’s that people are using the orphan crushing machine wrong”
2024 January 22, @Nemertes_, Twitter:BREAKING: orphan-crushing machine manufacturer states there is 'no sign' of orphan-crushing machines being used to crush orphans
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