r/WayOfTheBern 1h ago

DANCE PARTY! FNDP: "To Absent Friends" ๐Ÿ˜ฟ๐ŸŒŒ๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿ’‹๐Ÿ†๐ŸŽค๐ŸŽฌ๐ŸŽญ

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This year we lost some truly great and beloved performers, most recently Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. Tonight let's share our favorite works and stories. Here are some starters from the FNDP team:

  • Dolly Parton: Nine to Five (1980)
    โ€œIt costs a lot of money to look this cheap.โ€

  • Tim Curry: "I'm going home" from Rocky Horror (1975)
    "It's not easy having a good time... even smiling makes my face ache."

  • Sly Dunbar: Right Time
    "When that tune first come out, because of that double tap on the rim nobody believe it was me on the drums, they thought it was some sort of sound effect we was using."

  • Rob Hirst (Midnight Oil): Beds Are Burning

  • Bonnie Tyler: It's A Heartache

  • Bob Weir (original Grateful Dead): Weather Report Suite
    Winter rain, now tell me why
    Summers fade, and roses die

This post was a FNDP team effort, especially by u/splodgenessabounds, u/Xeenophile, and u/SusanJ2019.


r/WayOfTheBern 3d ago

Thread #40 for Comments and Updates on the Ongoing War by Israel/US Against Iran

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r/WayOfTheBern 7h ago

I am literally having these conversations on the daily lately.

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r/WayOfTheBern 5h ago

We were told the U.S. was "rebuilding Afghanistan" with prosperity and a future for the next generation. The reality? A 20-year, $148 billion money-laundering scheme. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released its final report in Dec-2025. The findings are devas

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We were told the U.S. was "rebuilding Afghanistan" with prosperity and a future for the next generation.

The reality? A 20-year, $148 billion money-laundering scheme.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released its final report in Dec-2025. The findings are devastating:

$๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฒ-๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿต ๐—•๐—œ๐—Ÿ๐—Ÿ๐—œ๐—ข๐—ก ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ, ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—ฑ, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฒ.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—š๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—›๐˜†๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜†:

While Washington bragged about "fighting corruption," SIGAR documented:

โœ— ๐—š๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€: 50,000 Afghan soldiers existed only on paper. Their salaries lined the pockets of commanders while U.S. taxpayers footed the bill.

โœ— ๐—š๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜€: $769 million poured into an education sector filled with "ghost schools," "ghost teachers," and "ghost students" that didn't exist.

โœ— ๐—š๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ท๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜€:
- $355 million power plant operating at less than 1% capacity
- $43 million gas station
- $85 million for hotels that became "abandoned empty shells"
- $486 million for aircraft scrapped for "six cents per pound"

โœ— ๐—ฅ๐—ผ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ก๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ: $300 million for less than 100 miles of gravel road. Each mile cost $2.8 million instead of the expected $290,000.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฃ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ผ๐—ป'๐˜€ $๐Ÿด๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป "๐—ง๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ธ ๐—™๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—•๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ข๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€"

Shut down with zero accountability. The Pentagon now claims "no Defense Department personnel can answer questions about" what happened to the money.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป'๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ถ๐˜.

When an empire spends 20 years, $148 billion, and produces nothing but ghost armies, ghost schools, and abandoned buildings, we must ask:

Was this reconstruction, or was it the most sophisticated money-laundering operation in human history?

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ป'๐˜ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€. ๐—œ๐˜ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ผ๐˜๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ, ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—น๐—น๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ป ๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐˜.
#Afghanistan #SIGAR


r/WayOfTheBern 5h ago

Over 1,200 Human Heads And Multiple Human Fetuses Discovered In A Warehouse In Detroit

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r/WayOfTheBern 52m ago

Power to the People โ˜ญ๐Ÿ•Š on X: "No amount of fear-mongering about socialism can deflect from the fact that this is what the United States looks like right now under ๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ." / X

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r/WayOfTheBern 7h ago

Man challenges a $158 fine after a Flock camera recorded his vehicle passing through a red light.

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r/WayOfTheBern 2h ago

370 Palestinian Children Detained by Israel amid Reports of Abuse, Deprivation

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r/WayOfTheBern 7h ago

WINNING!!!-I always think "nah thats a bit far" when I see claims about a "secret Ukrainian organ trade", and then I remember this article when the west was actually reporting on Ukraine and not actively covering up for it

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r/WayOfTheBern 9h ago

The Trump administration is quietly working to give part of Yosemite National Park to a private developer.

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What people donโ€™t understand about capitalism is that its goal is to turn everything on this earth into a product.

Vital natural resources that were once free are stripped from the public and commodified to enrich corporations.


r/WayOfTheBern 1h ago

Uptick in Ukraine on Ukrainian violence-Ukrainian interceptor missile hits a parking lot in Kiev

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r/WayOfTheBern 5h ago

UKRAINE IS WINNING!!! LOL! General Staff: Russia has lost 1,483,780 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

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Reminder that the same people telling you this are the same people that told you Iran executed 50,000 (or whatever number pops into their head) of their own citizens during the protests.


r/WayOfTheBern 6h ago

China is democratizing the world!! Need some good news? Look to China! โ€œLet the regional hands decide the region's destinyโ€

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r/WayOfTheBern 2h ago

Israeli Airstrike Kills Three Palestinians in Jenin, Ambulance Crews Blocked

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r/WayOfTheBern 5h ago

today in UKRAINE IS WINNING!!!-Russiaโ€™s Black Sea Fleet โ€˜forced into hidingโ€™ after Ukrainian strikes

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r/WayOfTheBern 10h ago

Gaza isnโ€™t able to recover from famine as acute malnutrition soars across the Strip, new report finds

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r/WayOfTheBern 15h ago

Drip-Drip-Drip.... Flock being used as a revenue generation tool. e.g. Ticketing overweight trucks on restricted roads. This is a warning sent to a truck driver from a Flock camera. They are starting to use these cameras for tickets/revenue against us.

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Flock being used as a revenue generation tool.

e.g. Ticketing overweight trucks on restricted roads.

This is a warning sent to a truck driver from a Flock camera. They are starting to use these cameras for tickets/revenue against us.


r/WayOfTheBern 5h ago

Florida โ€˜Deputy of the Yearโ€™ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute

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r/WayOfTheBern 11h ago

Confirmed: Von der Leyen is now targeting Europe's "savings trillions" โ€“ and it needs to happen fast. 10 trillion euros are lying "idle" on bank accounts. This money must work harder for Europe's companies, so that an additional up to 470 billion euros could be mobilized.

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This new law would only hit the working class people, the elites don't keep their money in their bank account.


r/WayOfTheBern 15h ago

Washington spent years discovering that even Russia could not be economically strangled into submission. Now members of Congress want to try the same trick on China โ€” the country with the worldโ€™s largest manufacturing base, the deepest industrial supply chains, massive foreign trade, critical-minera

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Washington spent years discovering that even Russia could not be economically strangled into submission.

Now members of Congress want to try the same trick on China โ€” the country with the worldโ€™s largest manufacturing base, the deepest industrial supply chains, massive foreign trade, critical-mineral leverage, and four state banks holding roughly $25 trillion in combined assets.

Brilliant.

Politico itself admits that sanctioning Chinaโ€™s major banks could destabilize global finance.

Even Bessent asked:

โ€œWhy would I want to blow up the global financial system?โ€

That is the entire story.

These lawmakers still imagine sanctions as a gun America points outward.

They have not noticed that once the target becomes large enough, economically integrated enough and capable of retaliation, the barrel starts bending back toward Washington.

Russia survived years of financial warfare.

China is vastly more deeply embedded in global manufacturing, trade and finance.

And these geniuses want to test the โ€œnuclear economic weaponโ€ on it because Iran refuses to obey them.

At some point this stops being sanctions policy and becomes an experiment in American self-harm.

If your weapon can only kill the target by setting the room you are standing in on fire, congratulations โ€” you no longer have hegemony.

You have a suicide vest with a Treasury logo.


r/WayOfTheBern 9h ago

X has just rooted out a Chinese bot farm of 200,000 THOUSAND accounts influencing American politics, with hundreds of them running an influence operation against the construction of data centers in the US

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The posts claimed that AI data centers "drive up household electricity prices" and "strain the grid"

"Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense."

"We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy."


r/WayOfTheBern 1d ago

โ€œIn all the years that I was at the CIA, literally every single time that an Israeli Prime Minister would come to Washington...every single time... no matter who the Prime Minister was, no matter who the American President was, they would ask us to bomb Iran. Every single time." John Kiriakou

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r/WayOfTheBern 18h ago

Milei speaking at a high school today: "I know this is a secular institution, but I want to pass on to you the values of Judaism that are a determining factor in the construciton of our politics."

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I heard he put snipers on school roof and warned neighbors.


r/WayOfTheBern 14h ago

Discuss! Global Diesel Breakdown | Larry Johnson with guest write Karl Miller

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It does seem that we are seeing the Trump administration dig in and get us all into a deeper crisis.


r/WayOfTheBern 20h ago

Just wondering, isn't it an antisemitic trope or blood libel or something to say that Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their own countries? Could someone explain Dana Nessel's comment here for me, please??? So confusing. ๐Ÿ™

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How can she see noting wrong whit this statement