blaming the victims

it is not okay
to wish sickness or death
upon anybody
period.

what you call Karma
God's Will
Divine Justice
Laws of Attraction
Everything Happens For a Reason™
blames the victims instead

nobody deserved any of this

"but since god is good
he can't be the cause
of the bad things that happen
so we have to come up with
something else to blame"
(or something to that effect)
Plato's Republic, Book II, 379c

reruns

we are all being played

groupthink says:
"we're better than them,
more special, smarter,
GOD loves us more"

it's easier to see
that other brainwash
that those other people believe
(my dog's better than your dog)
but we are all being played
denial impedes the change
that should have already come

(and the banners will be flown,
♪ in the next war)

what are you so afraid of?

afraid that there isn't really some Absolute Truth/Authority to tell you what to do, that there's nobody else to blame, and it really was up to you all along?

hypocrisy

i'm not sure i follow
how you think it's okay
to berate people for buying
the wrong strawberries
on your child slavery iphone
wearing your sweatshop clothes

sometimes a douchebag is just a douchebag

everybody deserves to be treated with kindness and respect. and when they aren't, it is perfectly reasonable for them to be unhappy about it. happiness is not a reward for only thinking good thoughts, and the lack of happiness is not a punishment for being the wrong kind of person. nobody asks to be mistreated. nobody wants to be mistreated. nobody goes out hoping to be raped or to come down with chronic illness. stop blaming the victims. bad things happen to good people all the time. it's not their fault.

plato was a douchebag, too:
"We won't allow poets to say that the punished are made wretched and that it was a god who made them so. But we will allow them to say that bad people are wretched because they are in need of punishment and that, in paying the penalty, they are benefited by the gods."

scars, a work in progress

i had to tell myself first
it isn't your fault,
what they did to you
that's where it starts
blame churns and boils
cauterizes the wound
then it washes away
with the pain and hurt

big brother's little sister

first shoe landed with a thud and
everyone will act so surprised
like we've never been played
this same way before
when the other shoe falls
...
we don't need a better candidate
a prettier shoe for jackbooted thugs
to stand on our necks with
and blame us for what they do
because the people voted
giving all their power away
along with the right to say no
no!  no fucking more!  no no no
you are only allowed an obedient
yes
yes we can
pick from the options
and call it a choice

green eggs and ham

incendiary divisive rhetoric
benefits only the state
if people stop listening
...***censored***...
invent a new bad guy
for the people to hate