I had to double-check. It's a real story, being carried by real news outlets.
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
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Quite literally makes you speechless
They might be trying to confuse search algorithms, so that when Russians look for Ukrainian meat grinder, they get some articles with babushkas instead of blogposts that are critical about how Putin's regime conducts the war.
Edit after some more thinking about it: those critical blogposts probably get censored away, so that when Russians try looking for them, they find no relevant results. Now that these other meat grinder articles exist, the search results will be populated again and look less suspiciously devoid of relevant results.
It's definitely this.
Boris Johnson did a super awkward interview where he talked about how he "loved painting models as kids, especially buses, red buses" so that he might bleed a little of the search results for "Boris johnson red bus" so that the massive lie he was caught wouldn't spread as wide. They know it doesn't stop the thing, but it affects it and they're not afraid of being laughed at, so...
Who is writing this shit?
What sadistic prick is authoring this reality? Just...holy shit. In what culture is that how you win the war at home?
Is this real? This might be fake news..
If it is real, I wonder what that mother thinks.. I wonder if she hates her country and Putin.
Probably happy and grateful, through the magic of propaganda.
Damn. Really sticking it to the US with the level of fucked upedness. Ball's in your court America! Time to think up something even more messed up.
We make the soldiers into meat and force feed it to their loved ones.
Soylent Green is people!
Elon would probably point out that it's cheaper that way. Burying dead soldiers is expensive.
Plus why bury meat? That's wasteful.
The one redeeming aspect of how Putin constantly makes enemies is that he'll never ever get to truly relax again.
Humans aren't capable of keeping track of the number of people he's harmed badly enough that they may someday do him violence.
He can never let his guard down, and will never be able to trust anyone.
If that man somehow dies peacefully, I'll buy a lottery ticket the same day, because that would be a whale of a black swan event.
He'll fall out a window like everyone else. It's the only natural cause of death in Russia
Gravity is natural...
But not exactly neutral, at least in Russia it seems... ;-)
Russian gravity does seem unusually politically motivated...
Poetic in its own way
Okay but sincere question: does the idiom translate?
I'm pretty sure that translates in any culture that eats meat and has gone to war. There might have been an isolated village of vegetarians sometime in history who would have been confused.
Sincere question - do all meat-eating cultures have popular dishes where the meat is ground up?
Pretty much yeah, because that's how you utilise the shittiest parts.
I mean I can't speak for all cultures obviously.
But you know.
If you look up sausages around the world, most regions are covered. Historically, from a survival perspective, you didn't want to throw away any meat, and grinding up less palatable parts is an easy way to do that. Often, that led to sausages, but American Aboriginals often went with pemmican, Scots did haggis, and I'm sure there were other ways in other regions. The only regions I haven't seen without a historical sausage is Africa, but the Roman Empire had chopped meat dishes, so the idea may have been exported thousands of years ago even if it didn't spontaneously originate there.
Is it The Onion or not? This link tree links to a post posted in The Onion community
Judging by the home page, it appears to be a legitimate news source.
At best, meat grinders are amazingly thoughtless. At worst, they’re a cruel, unfunny prank.
I don't see how it could possibly be unintentional. It's too bizarre.
Neither do I, but sometimes people are just fantastically stupid.
It had been crossposted to TheOnion community on another instance, but the story is real.
Do we have a phrase for this yet? Like, we have "bit the onion", so would this be "planted the bulb"?
So these mothers chose the gifts. They knew what they were doing.
They're smiling!
I think it's the kind of smile that one does when ordered to pose for a propaganda photo in support of a dictators illegal war that killed your child. That is not joy on display there.
Kinda redundant.