Reality is grimdark.

give them a fluffy white cat to balance it out

fictional villians rarely hold a candle to the real-life ones but it feels like most people assume there’s some kind of cosmic force of justice balancing the scales in real life keeping them from exceeding the evils perpetrated by their fictional counterparts.

Just link em the relevant histories

one thing you need to emphasize is these cartoonishly evil capitalists are in a way forced to do this. read https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/marx-on-capital-as-a-real-god-2/ and https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2021/11/25/dark-eucharist-of-the-real-god/ to see what i mean. hell, since a lot of the worldbuilding in this comm is fantasy, it even makes sense to make it an actual god!

Fact: in my old fantasy setting, I made the “Orcs” a copy of the British Empire.

I loosely based the plot of one of my novels on the original Star Wars. No one has figured this out yet even though hundreds of people have read the book so far. One commenter complained that the fascist villain in the story, who is based on Darth Vader, doesn’t have enough wins. And I was just thinking…bruh…you’re complaining about darth vader (I know it’s not exactly the same but still). And you’re also wishing that the fascist would win more. Plus, if you think about it, Darth Vader’s only real win in the original Star Wars is killing Obi-Wan Kenobi.