They all hate this one simple trick:

Capitalism is not failing.
What we are seeing is Capitalism succeeding.
- Fun fact, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does.
  So arguably not even being hyperbolic.
- Right, it's just the democratic park of Democratic Capitalism
  Turns out, the one part contradicts the second part
  If only someone saw that one coming...
- looks at stonks I don't think so...
  
  The previous poster may be implying that capitalism may be sold to the general public as a means for everyone to be able to achieve (financial) equality (or better) through hard work, yet is actually a means designed to consolidate power. It seems like a decent theory since the less restrictions are placed on the market the more it favors unlimited power and resource colsolidation. /imho
  
  Can't grow your wealth exponentially if stocks always go up, now can you?

Project 2025 architects after handing over the fascist paint by numbers guide book to trump only to watch him destroy capitalism anyways
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- What makes you think he's destroying capitalism?
  The Republicans have basically made it so that billionaires can purchase whatever they want at a steep discount.
  This is going exactly as planned.
  
  so that billionaires can purchase whatever they want at a steep discount.
  The stock market has already wiped out trillions and 90% of stocks are owned by the top 10%.
  The 0.01% will always do well. They have enough money they will literally always win in capitalism.
  But they've syphoned almost all they can from the bottom 90%. That 10% waking up and siding with the 90% is historically what it takes to overthrow the 0.01%.
  This is going exactly as planned.
  That doesn't mean it will end well.
  The 0.01% are like a gambler who went double or nothing 100x in a row and never lost, and now thinks losing is impossible. Eventually they lose it all or the casino boss decides they're not gonna cash out their chips and whacks a guy in alley. Even if they don't lose a game, they ain't walking away with all of a casino's money.
  
  You sure about that? A lot of wealth is tied to share price.
  
  There was a rather fringey plan to use tariffs to basically force other countries to accept even more American billionaire domination of the global economy. But this only slightly resembles that plan, nobody really knows what Trump is doing now, least of all Trump himself.
- On Lemmy UI you can do:
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- Unhinged means unhinged.

Usually the capitalists are the ones who kind of complain but don’t do anything to prevent the facism from happening, somehow expecting someone else to step in when they are the ones with power.
And facism naturally follows from massive wealth inequality in capitalism, if leftist movements are silenced, and the population is angry, well the facists will win.
- For a time, at least.

capitalsts think that until fascism goes for them too
- That happens? Hitler and Mussolini were great for capitalists. Germany and Italy came out of WWII with wages slashed, labor unions and communists killed, a lot of privatization, and so on. WWII had one winner, and it's capital.
- All of them have to kiss ass and pay to curry the king’s favor so he hopefully doesn’t have them removed and replaced with cronies who do him favors.
  
  Yep all the rich Jews who supported hitler still ended up enjoying death trains
- Capitalists don’t know they where doing fascism the whole time

Capitalists don't want the market to crash like this
- fascism is a particular brand of capitalism that circles the wagons to ensure that its socially privileged groups are the only people who can benefit from the market; this group is significantly smaller than the rest of the population and, so, it forces the market to contract as this action takes place.
  in other words: crashing markets is a side effect; not the goal.
- Nah, the big ones have their generous bailouts already guaranteed by Trump and the small fry doesn't have much influence to stop anything.

Actually fixing economic disasters is the only thing where fascism can be quite effective.
- I'm sorry, but outside of Singapore, do you have any single example?
  Because well, "it worked this one time on the entire history of the world" isn't the flex you seem to think it is.
  
  Singapore was not fascism.
  It is more closely related to authoritarian socialism.
  
  Yes. I don't know the correct English terminology for that though. Before the company goes bankrupt the court may force the company to being working under outside supervision with rather wide powers. Not caring about what owners or workers think about it. Literal fascism. The idea is that all sides are interested to company to live. And if nothing helps then it will just continue with bankruptcy. Nobody loses much.
- cite your sources because it basically always goes exactly like this. fascism is just capitalist greed going mask off, and it always results in mass scale theft and grift, and with us, the regular folk, getting tortured for not being born wealthy. it only ever ends with living conditions getting so bad that a war breaks out in which us, the regular folk, storm the fascist trenches and bunkers to oust them and take back what was always ours. what's more, is that consistently we, the regular folk, always get sold out by the elites who decided to take our side right at the very end, allowing fascism to survive enough to come back around a century later. that's what Hannah Arendt was warning us about in her nuremberg trials testimony. that the world leaders putting the nazis on trial weren't so different from the nazis themselves when you get right down to it. and then it happened: project paperclip brought the nazis best and brightest to the west, and what did they do? plant the seeds of fascism to arise again.
- Pretty naive.
  When the big fishes are all fascists (or communist like China is today), there's not need for capitalism.
  
  I've not heard anyone call China communist for a while. At least not anyone trying to speak with accuracy about wealth distribution over there.
  
  (or communist like China is today)
  Why do people think communism is what China has?
  Do you think NK are democratic too? It's right there in the name, why would a dictator lie?
  /s