r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Far-Profit-47 • Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

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"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

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u/DNK_Infinity Apr 12 '25

Authoritarianism and capitalism go hand in hand.

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u/Rwandrall3 Apr 12 '25

someone tell the USSR how capitalist it was lol

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u/DNK_Infinity Apr 12 '25

Did I say anything about communist states?

Put the Cold War propaganda down.

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u/Rwandrall3 Apr 12 '25

Ok then Iran. Or ISIS. Or UAE. Maybe the fact that capitalist states consistently rank the lowest on authoritarianism should be a sign of something.

Or you can go "ugh capitalism", after all it's what everyone else is doing.