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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Alt Text: an image of Agent Smith from The Matrix with the following text superimposed, "1999 was described as being the peak of human civilization in 'The Matrix' and I laughed because that obviously wouldn't age well and then the next 25 years happened and I realized that yeah maybe the machines had a point."
It literally was the peak though. Maybe early 2000s minus 9/11. But after 2010 it absolutely went downhill.
Oh goodness no. We had the War on Terror for 15 years after 2001. Global civilization took a serious crash dive after that. The terrorists won.
The war industry won.
I mean, Facebook is chatbot hell, with millions pulled in.
If that isn't the matrix, I dunno what is.
A stupider, more destructive Matrix.
It's even worse, man... At least the robots in The Matrix weren't capitalists (I don't think... I honestly forget most of the Animatrix)
They definitely weren't capitalist, lmao. They only wanted to make the perfect system. You could consider their quest for perfection "greed".
They didn't really have to try, though, they had a great system in place. Humans lived long enough for turnover and plenty of energy provided. That glitch was an issue, but contained. At least until someone decided to fall in love. Then the whole system failed.
Probably the realist part of the matrix.
Humans as a battery is just a dumb concept.
Now utilizing humans for our biologically assembled computer (brains) so they could offload processing power, that woulda been smart.
I think that was the original concept - battery was the "for the masses" version
I feel like Ralph should have had a cameo in the matrix.
Prince made this statement way before Matrix did
So much horseshit happened around 2000 that forever split our timeline...
W Stealing the election
Bin Laden attacking and making the entire world forever lose their mind and hope
Never ending wars and climate destruction because no-one cared anymore about collaboration
That 4 year period altered the world's trajectory for the worse on so many levels.
W lies and propaganda led to Putin and Trump and it set the stage for all of the anti queer and anti immigrant rhetoric
Bin Laden attacking and making ~~the entire world~~ the USA forever lose their mind and hope
FTFY
If you don't think the anti terror bullshit panic didn't spread around the world, then you weren't paying attention. A lot of governments used it to pass all kinds of anti democratic bullshit in guise of "security"
Freedom fries.
Not even nearly as bad as the USA though
That AND the war on terror was something the west and Putin could “agree on” regardless of what their definition of terror meant.
It helped Putin do his thing without it being so shocking