Then explain all of the people in the system who are currently changing it for the worse?

Something to that effect was my first idea for a post title

This image was crossposted from !conservative@lemm.ee. The average subscriber there probably has a much different interpretation of who the image could be referring to. Conservatives are not present in reality enough to even consider that Trump and Musk are the baddies — the “corporate bobble heads” and the “rich and corrupt” as the image says.

To my pleasant surprise, the top comments on the crosspost are sensible:

If you are “conservative” in any manner, you’ve been voting for the destruction of both people and society in both word and deed for the past 40 years.

Sure, you may want me to be beaten to death, but at least you admitted eggs aren’t cheap now, this makes us allies.

Don’t expect him to pay you for kinky sex work like that fyi

Thanks! I hemmed and hawed for a while over what punctuation would work best

*since at latest 1933

Don’t blame it on just one person. He has many friends accomplices.

I’m using that incident to draw attention to this form of scapegoating that has been around and will continue to be used. Save the meme and reuse it the next time the blame game comes around