There is definitely valid criticism to be made, but it can be a bit much at times.

HEY, THAT GUY'S HOARDING ALL THE CARDS. LET'S KILL HIM!
- You’re definitely a CAPITALIST
  
  Hahahahaha
  I just got this. It's been a long day 😂

Really? Advertising Sprite on Lemmy?? A Coca Cola Company product??? Keep your capitalism out of here! /s

You know what can REALLY be a bit much sometimes?
It's Capita-
- The capitalists got him, guys

What distro is this?
- Ubuntu

Well if it weren't for capitalism you wouldn't have to complain about Lemmy complaining about it…

- Huh....just realized that Austin Powers' chest hair is in the shape of a penis.
  
  I never noticed that, either. Intentional or not, it's on-brand.

Give me the whole deck bitches, unos a kids game and were talking about causing political unrest.
- Agreed. I'm mostly a lurker, but the current state of US politics feels existential.
  
  I think sometimes Americans forget there is more than just the American version of capitalism

The abundance of overconfident one-line retorts and trendy slang make me think people's major source of knowledge here is memes.
- !memethenews@lemmy.world

You have heard of commodification of capitalism criticism now get ready for commodification of criticism of capitalism criticism

Especially when someone blames capitalism for something which has been a problem since the dawn of humanity, and if anything, has improved under capitalism.
- Care to share a representative xample?
  
  Snakes
  
  "You don’t hate women and feminism. You hate capitalism."
  https://slrpnk.net/post/17820010
  As if misogyny is a new thing that came along with capitalism. Women have been second-class citizens for most of recorded history. While they're still not on par with men, if anything it has improved in the modern, capitalist world.
  "It is always capitalism's fault"
  https://lemmy.world/post/23607277
  Despite the nazis being fascists, somehow it's not their fault, it's actually capitalism that's at fault.
  Lemmy search isn't very good, but I've replied to a bunch of Lemmy posts over the last while where the argument is basically that capitalism is the worst possible system. They seem to be unaware of just how brutal and awful life was under Manorialism / Feudalism. They seem to equate every modern ill with capitalism, even when it's something that was 1000x worse under say fascism.
  
  Greed. Violence. Self-interest. In vs. Out groups. Shall I go on?
  
  Hunger. What other form of economic system has kept people this fed? All communist countries have had famines mass killing their population.
  The dust bowl ran a few thousand deaths in America compared to Mao's famine killing millions, Soviet famines killing millions every couple decades, the '90s North Korean famine killed God knows how many people. Americans get fed dogshit slop, but they don't starve.

Without capitalism you never would have made this meme!
- We can appreciate a system for how it has developed the productive forces but determine its time is up... or whatever I can't help myself I'm sorry
  
  You comment like I do half the time. Cool beans.

I am afraid we are way past that point, it is more like a discussion between should we kill all billionaires or just -force redistribute their wealth or not draw 25 cards
- What relation this has with capitalism? Are you trying to claim capitalism created wealth concentration and reduced class mobility?
  Because that's exactly what the OP is about.
  
  It isn't about what evil capitalism created. It's about what evil capitalism has enabled to be perfected at scale.
  I swear it's like people want to be serfs.
  
  I would say more like catalysed

A bit much, like the artificially inflated prices of everything?

Thanks Obama meme became Thanks Capitalism meme

Can we not? Like of all the shit to defend...
- Not wanting to hear constant complaints about something does not equate to defending or endorsing that thing.
  For example, you likely wouldn't want to have a roommate constantly complain about their diarrhea after they eat dairy. You asking them to not constantly update you about their shit doesn't mean you are defending diarrhea. Most people don't want to be subjected to constant complaints about something they don't have the authority/ability to change.
  
  Not a great analogy.
  It's more like your landlord continually sprays your house with liquid shit and your roommate keeps making remarks about how it doesn't have to be like this and people shouldn't have to live with liquid shit and you're like, "Would you just shut up about it already?!"
  
  The alternative is normalization of capitalism and the status quo, which is already very much the case in most of society. People are constantly dying and suffering because of capitalism, the bare minimum is constant critique.

/draws card

Things will change once Elon shuts down reddit or buys it.
- Hopefully piefed or mbin will be more mature by then and keep redditors away.
  
  ... that's not how the fediverse works. You'd have to move to an instance that doesn't federate with whatever instances (regardless of whether those are Lemmy or Piefed or Mbin instances) the redditors flock to.

Hey now that its propaganda job is completed with the inauguration of absolute batshit rapist facism - sure, go nuts. Capitalism, uh, non-capitalism ? . or whatever . . y'know all the things you non-voters are on about. Go for it. Meme away.

I've personally never looked into it, like whenever someone brings up how bad capitalism is, i have a mental block so that all I can see or hear is Hulk Hogans intro to his fight with The Ultimate Warrior from Wrestlemania VI, but I'm sure its not that serious