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by taintegral 1044 days ago
> 6) Morality will degrade. Prostitution, drug use, nihilism, and degeneracy of every sort will explode.

> 7) America’s military will weaken dramatically as the quality of recruits plunges and we no longer have the money to properly maintain and supply our forces.

Tried and true right-wing media strategy: sucker people by talking about economic stress on the middle class (real issue), and gradually transition to moral hand-wringing and pumping the military-industrial complex (fake issues).

> 12) The government will institute a wealth tax. It will be sold as something to target the rich, but in practice, over time, they will be taking large amounts of money from people no one considers rich.

Interesting that they start by talking about how Campbell's soup is expensive and finish by talking about how the real threat is a wealth tax...

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They start by talking about growing costs of living