Let’s take a moment to appreciate the sheer genius of blaming the victim. It’s the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card, the Swiss Army knife of excuses, the chef’s kiss of deflection. No matter how absurd the circumstance, no matter how blatant the injustice, there’s always one flawless response: “Well, you should have tried harder.”
Lost your life savings in a Ponzi scheme? Should’ve been smarter.
Got scammed by a billionaire who doesn’t pay his contractors? Should’ve read the fine print.
Failed to manifest your dream life through the power of positive thinking? Guess you didn’t believe hard enough.
It’s perfect. No accountability, no messy investigations, no uncomfortable questions about systemic flaws. Just pure, unfiltered you should’ve known better.
The best part? It scales infinitely.
- Religion? Your faith wasn’t strong enough.
- Capitalism? You didn’t hustle hard enough.
- Love? You didn’t manifest the right energy.
Why fix problems when you can just gaslight the people suffering from them? Why change systems when you can just insist everyone else is doing it wrong?
So here’s to blaming the victim—the most versatile, time-tested, and laziest solution to every problem ever. Because if we can’t blame the people at the bottom, we might actually have to look up. And nobody wants that.
Bravo, humanity. Bravo. 👏
The Inner Monologue 
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