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I have seen practically this same post on /Pol/ and I really appreciate NOT having it on HN.

You don't like mixing your information sources?

> “[There will be a promise of] all kinds of goodies and paradise on earth to destabilize your economy, to eliminate the principle of free-market competition, and to put a big brother government in Washington, D.C., with benevolent dictators who’ll promise lots of things. Never mind if the promises are fulfilled or not.”

Yuri Bezmenov is almost prophetic, given that he was speaking of our current era in the early 80s. He predicted the decline of the United States way before anyone else.

The decline of the US was not triggered by "marxists". It was triggered by a disastrous, two decade long war in Afghanistan and Iraq, followed by an economic catastrophe where the culprits went completely unpunished.

Unironically, the decline of the US is being caused by wanton neoliberal capitalism. Marxism didn't lead to a $6 trillion war and trillion dollar bailouts.

The reason I dislike seeing posts like this on HN is because they completely absolve the neoliberals of their guilt and paint an imaginary fall guy as the culprit. It's precisely what Wall Street and the military-industrial complex want.

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