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    15 hours ago

    “yes I could help you build a peaceful society where crime is unheard of and poverty is elimin-”

    “No see we just want you to do it but keep poor people poor so they know their place”

    “Uh I think I’m just gonna take over from here”

    “Sure whatever”

    And Agent Smith is just the old program that is still pissed off and knows that whatever fucked up system they made is still magnitudes better than whatever we’d have come up with. And they let us keep existing in the 90s. lol sounds like they basically gave us our version of heaven as best they could.

    They fight Neo because they know that, if humans win and earn freedom, it’s back to the same capitalist bullshit eventually and we destroy the planet for everyone.