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The Matrix is such a subtle movie that the first end credit song is about the US government surveiling and murdering black activists

The Matrix is such a subtle movie in its messaging that it contains a scene where a black man breaks the chains he has been bound in, after being cuffed and tortured by a white man in a suit.

It's honestly shocking we don't see more turtle OCs, because TMNT was the biggest part of the "extremely buff and always shirtless animal" craze

Reading about Street Sharks and realizing that the main reason everyone is a gay furry is that the 90s were entirely populated by super-buff animal men, even if the animals didn't have arms, they had huge rad biceps and pectorals in the 90s

From the wiki article on Arthrospira:

"Although the introduction of two separate genera [Arthrospira and Spirulina] is now generally accepted, there has been much dispute in the past and the resulting taxonomical confusion is tremendous."

Specifically (lol), Spirulina is a genus, and the stuff sold as Spirulina has long since been reclassified as belonging to a different genus, although plenty of other plants still belong to it

Spirulina: The thing that's sold as Spirulina is an entirely different plant

When it began, it was like 30 thousand stubs about obscure small towns, so it made sense to me that this was someone's hobby

No lie, when I first encountered Wikipedia in the early 2000s, I thought it was one person because the NPOV voice was so eerily consistent

Neo is also cyber Jesus in that rightwingers have misinterpetted his e-teachings

[watches movie where one of the first scenes features a heroic white woman beating up evil white men in suits and cops]

Uhhhhh I don't understand, it's too complicated...is it about white men...being oppressed?

This movie could have had a scene where Morpheus just explains every metaphor, and it practically does, but you'd still have people insisting it's about...the exact opposite.

Also: I think the first thing we see when the movie starts is a terminal displaying a short command containing the word "trans". And we see the same text when the movie closes. Subtle!

Also congratulations to the Wachowskis for
1) Picking the last possible moment in time when payphones were everywhere
2) Getting Rage Against the Machine to play over the credits of their movie about raging against the machine

Weird how The Matrix is about everything but the MRA interpretation of The Matrix