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Tim Curry is escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.

geoff EXE
Comedy
YouTube
Cited on HN 3 times, 2022–2026, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Mostly posted as a joke in threads about capitalism, SpaceX and Red Alert.

A very short clip of Tim Curry from Red Alert 3, captioned as escaping to space. It is a meme-style video clip.

3 jokes · Comedy

3 Hacker News comments

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@thwarted Oct 2022 Makes a joke
on HN thread Climate Change Is the Product of How Capitalism “Values” Nature
Considering how this thread started, you're saying that we need to escape to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism? [this video] But more pragmatically, neither Biosphere project was considered successful enough to make this workable on earth at any large, or even small, scale. There is still much more work and research to do here. Any attempt here currently has a hard dependency on the larger ecosystem to supply it with inputs. Musk working on building moonbases on earth looks a lot like what doomday preppers are already focused on.
@Xelbair Nov 2025 Makes a joke
on HN thread Red Alert 2 in web browser
"I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism, barely holds laughter back and takes a break SPACE!" [this video]
@SketchySeaBeast Feb 2026 Makes a joke
on HN thread XAI Joins SpaceX
Every time I hear stuff like this I think of Tim Curry just barely keeping it together during that one cut scene in Red Alert 3. [1] [this video]

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