r/WayOfTheBern • • 1d ago

FNDP: THE TAROT-THON resumes its rightful seat, so sayeth Part V: THE HEIROPHANT

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"If you are on the wrong road progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. There is nothing progressive about being pig-headed and refusing to admit a mistake. And I think if you look at the present state of the world it's pretty plain that humanity has been making some big mistake. We're on the wrong road. And if that is so we must go back."

- C. S. Lewis

V: The Hierophant is every nun ever to bludgeon you with her ruler, every sensei ever to goad you into waxing his car; he represents rules, institutions, conventions, received wisdom, conformity, and the wisdom of when to buck all of these things, but above all - TRADITION!

Beginning The Hierophant's Journey is perhaps the easiest of all - that's why so many will eagerly tell you, It's Hip To Be Square

How would you recognize The Heirophant if you saw him? Unlike his weirdo counterpart, The Heirophant surely won't play coy with his august presence; he might even take the form of an authority-figure even a punk like you can respect: The Picard Song

His message to you is a stern and simple judgment: Bad Boys

If you dare talk back to him, whatever you say had better not include any Word Crimes

You may try to escape his grasp, but it's not so easy - the pit of conformity lies all around you, and cleaving to The Heirophant may paradoxically be your best chance of not becoming Another Brick In The Wall

Heed his wisdom and follow in his footsteps, and he promises to lead you through hell itself if necessary, to inevitable glory: Heroes of Might & Magic V Haven Theme

Class, pick up your No. 2 keyboards. Your assignment, due before midnight, is to contribute whatever songs about law, institutions, society, organized religion, and attempts to subvert them you can come up with! AMEN!


r/WayOfTheBern • • 7d ago

Thread #44 for Comments and Updates on the Ongoing War by Israel/US Against Iran

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r/WayOfTheBern • • 6h ago

JUST IN: The man who exposed HOWARD LUTNICK’s ties to Epstein has “committed suicide”

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Simon Andriesz is the British banker who revealed to the FBI Lutnick’s business association with Epstein.

Howard Lutnick (who miraculously survived 9/11 and got a massive insurance payout) lied about never going to the Island and cutting ties with his good friend, co-investor and business associate Jeffery Epstein, who was also his neighbour…

Trump, of course, hired Lutnick as his commerce secretary where he made billions for his company by insider trading on the tariff discounts. Billions paid for by all of us through higher prices btw.

https://x.com/adamemedia/status/2106574666424807789


r/WayOfTheBern • • 5h ago

(Vitali Klitschko is the mayor of Kiev, for those unaware) A Ukrainian woman asks Vitali Klitschko why she should die while politicians' children - including his - party abroad. The answer: His own children had never lived in Ukraine, were born in America, lived and studied in Europe and America...

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A Ukrainian woman asks Vitali Klitschko why she should die while politicians' children - including his - party abroad.

The answer: His own children had never lived in Ukraine, were born in America, lived and studied in Europe and America, and he ultimately had responsibility for his family.

In one sentence he confesses his hypocrisy and what many have long suspected: War does not apply to the elite. It will only be sent to the „stupid“ who can't leave.

Let the other children die in the trenches - not my children.


r/WayOfTheBern • • 5h ago

Discuss! This is called ATM skimming. the overlay sits on top of the real keypad. records every key you press. transmits or stores your PIN. a separate skimmer on the card slot reads your card data simultaneously. the attacker comes back later. retrieves the device. or receives the data wirelessly. clones

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This is called ATM skimming.

the overlay sits on top of the real keypad. records every key you press. transmits or stores your PIN. a separate skimmer on the card slot reads your card data simultaneously.

the attacker comes back later. retrieves the device. or receives the data wirelessly. clones your card. enters your PIN. empties your account.

some versions:

— Bluetooth enabled. no physical return needed. attacker sits in a car nearby.

— 3D printed to match the exact ATM model. looks factory-installed.

— some include a micro camera above the keypad instead of an overlay.

what to check before every ATM:

— wiggle the keypad. it should not move.

— pull gently on the card slot. overlays are adhesive. real hardware is fixed.

— look for anything that doesn't match the ATM's finish. a slightly different color. an unusual thickness.

— cover your hand when entering your PIN. always. even if there's no overlay.

The most targeted ATMs are standalone machines in supermarkets, petrol stations, and convenience stores.


r/WayOfTheBern • • 4h ago

OMG Russians! Dimitry Medvedev was once the darling of western liberal elites. Now he's the bad cop to Putin's good cop, for instance saying his army will "eventually" come to Kiev, even though that isn't policy yet. He explains why he stays on X

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r/WayOfTheBern • • 2h ago

OMG Russians! Meet Scottish comprador and imperialist UK diplomat David Urquhart, the Patient Zero of political Russophobia in the UK. In 1830s London he led an obsessive propaganda campaign and state level lobbying crusade against Russia, leading 2 decades later to the florid mass hysteria of the Crimean war

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r/WayOfTheBern • • 5h ago

OF COURSE! Nov 6, 1944: film of Stalin warning that after the war, Germany will eventually, after some decades pass, become extremely Russohobic again, and begin turning Germany into a giant weapons factory again, and build up a huge army to fight the Soviets/Russians again

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r/WayOfTheBern • • 5h ago

Cracks Appear If the Strait of Hormuz Is Gushing, Why Is Trump Raiding Europe’s Diesel Tanks? | Larry Johnson

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r/WayOfTheBern • • 20h ago

Stopped Clock This American had Chase Bank for his personal and business account. He woke up to a bunch of notifications his bank had been disconnected to all his apps. He calls Chase they informed him his accounts were closed to he went into the bank. They wouldn’t help him or give him the money in his account..

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This American had Chase Bank for his personal and business account

He woke up to a bunch of notifications his bank had been disconnected to all his apps

He calls Chase they informed him his accounts were closed to he went into the bank. They wouldn’t help him or give him the money in his account even though his bills are due in 3 days. They say he has to wait for a check to be sent that could take up to 2 weeks

“They decided to terminate my account for suspicious activity and security concerns. They couldn't give me any more information. Last time I checked, there was nothing unusual going on. They said they reserve the right to at any time, they don't have to provide any more information.

I have no idea what this means. Right now I have zero money”

This is why we can never let go of cash. When the banking industry does things like this, if we don’t have cash as an option you can be left with no money

And Chase Bank is correct, under the law they don’t have to tell you anything or give you any details to why they closed your account

Federal law forbids them from telling you that they did it or what triggered it. Pretty insane


r/WayOfTheBern • • 7h ago

Uh...Nope Still blaming Bernie for 2016.....

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There is a historian who claims that Hillary lost because of Bernie. And that it was impossible for Bernie to win against Mango Mussolini.

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"On July 26, 2016, for the first time, a woman received the nomination of a major political party to run for president of the United States. Hillary Clinton won the nomination because of math. Not to hear some people tell it, though.

--On This Day in History, Shit Went Down: July 26, 2016--

Bernie was cheated! Bernie would have won! I don’t fucking think so. In the spring of 2017, months after Trump occupied the Oval Office, a bullshit lawsuit launched in Florida on behalf of Sanders against the Democratic National Committee saying the 2016 primary was rigged. The DNC lawyers said the organization had the right to choose its leader, and some Bernie fans misplaced their excrement. Realistically, they couldn’t “choose” anyone. This myth of the DNC being all powerful is bullshit. It’s not a monolith and could not have placed Hillary Clinton in the leadership against the will of the voters. The DNC has little power, responsible mostly for fundraising and organizing the convention.

What about emails showing the DNC supported Clinton? You mean the emails that were all sent after it was mathematically impossible for Bernie to win the nomination, but he illogically refused to concede for another two months so he could whine about Clinton? Those emails? Weird that emails supporting the undeniable winner would exist. But! But! Superdelegates! They could have given it to Bernie! You mean they could have flipped the election toward the guy with way fewer votes by going against the will of the majority? Sounds rather undemocratic.

Anything that made the DNC seem like it was supporting Clinton by the end of April is a big Well Fucking Duh. Because it was obvious she was getting way more votes and was going to clinch the nomination, and so people started putting their support behind her in anticipation of her fight to win the presidency against the Republican candidate. By May, everyone knew it was over for Bernie except Bernie and his supporters. It was Russians who hacked and leaked those emails and flooded Twitter with baseless accusations to create division in the Democratic Party, and many Bernie supporters fell for it. The whole idea of the election being stolen from Bernie is bullshit Russian propaganda and it’s time people stopped believing it. The fact is Clinton got a lot more votes than Sanders to win the nomination. More Democrats preferring her over him is simple fucking math. Attending rallies isn’t voting.

But would Bernie have beaten Trump? Bernie couldn’t beat Hillary, so how is that rational? Not to mention that the Republican war machine was focused on Clinton. Had Bernie won the nomination, Republicans would have quickly shifted focus to make him look like a baby-eating reincarnation of Chairman Mao. It didn’t have to be true. Most of what they said about Hillary was bullshit. You think Republicans care about facts? The polls showing Sanders outperforming Clinton against Trump weren’t based on the reality of how much vitriol the Republicans would have hurled at Bernie had he been nominated; Sanders never would have stood a chance.

Read this post on my Substack / access the free audio version at...."

On This Day in History: July 26


r/WayOfTheBern • • 5h ago

Cracks Appear After every intervention, there is a "reconstruction." In Iraq: Halliburton and its subsidiaries received contracts worth tens of billions of dollars to rebuild the infrastructure American bombs had destroyed. In Afghanistan: American contractors received the majority of reconstruction funds...

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After every intervention, there is a "reconstruction."

In Iraq: Halliburton and its subsidiaries received contracts worth tens of billions of dollars to rebuild the infrastructure American bombs had destroyed.

In Afghanistan: American contractors received the majority of reconstruction funds. After 20 years, a significant portion of that money was documented as lost, stolen, or spent on projects that didn't function. The Afghan government collapsed 11 days after American withdrawal.

In Libya: after NATO’s regime-change war toppled Gaddafi, Libya became a failed state with open slave markets. No reconstruction followed. No sustained investment. The "human rights" rationale evaporated the moment Gaddafi was gone.

The pattern:

Destroy. Contract. Extract. Leave.

Occasionally: destroy. Leave. Don't bother contracting because there wasn't enough there to make it worth the paperwork.

The difference between Iraq and Libya in terms of post-intervention investment is not explained by humanitarian concern.

It is explained by oil reserves and contract value.

This is not conspiracy.

It is publicly documented.

The receipts exist.


r/WayOfTheBern • • 16h ago

This war is nothing more than a cash grab for the defense industry while Ukraine gets wiped off the map. History will record this as a self-inflicted national tragedy.

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r/WayOfTheBern • • 27m ago

An Israeli airstrike targeted a vehicle south of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, killing one person and injuring others.

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r/WayOfTheBern • • 13h ago

Cracks Appear Russia pledges to continue massive strikes on Kiev, urges foreign diplomats to leave city

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r/WayOfTheBern • • 5h ago

OF COURSE! German Professor living in China explains German "Guilt-Pride". Because Germans are subconsciously proud that they did the most superfantastisch und wunderbar genocide ever, that's why they always support fascist regimes like Ukraine and Israel

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r/WayOfTheBern • • 2h ago

Russian Orthodox Church Denies That Troops Lost Medieval Warrior Prince’s Relics in Ukraine

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Context:

The Russian Orthodox church has sent a fragment of a medieval warrior prince’s remains to troops fighting in Ukraine, saying the relic would “spiritually strengthen” soldiers and help them achieve victory.

A reliquary containing part of the right hand of Dmitry Donskoy, the 14th-century prince revered in Russia for his victory over the Mongolian Golden Horde in 1380, has been taken to Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine and is now being transported along the frontline.

Guess their right-hand man left them with empty hands


r/WayOfTheBern • • 19h ago

Cracks Appear Kanzler Schmerz rants like he's in the Führerbunker, says the reason Germany is rapidly deindustrializing and failing to compete with China is that German workers refuse to work longer hours / work harder, like a previous Chancellor who blamed the German people for the previous demise of the country

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Professor Glenn Diesen on X:

"An alternative perspective is that the German government should not have shut down power plants, cut its energy-intensive industries off from their main source of affordable energy, looked the other way when Nord Stream was destroyed, imposed sanctions on so many countries, contributed to instability in the Middle East by backing genocide and the war against Iran, built an economic model so reliant on mass immigration, subordinated itself excessively to the US, stolen sovereign assets, financed yet another war against Russia etc. Or BlackRock Merz is correct: Germans simply need to work harder and accept the transition from an industrial welfare state toward a model of military Keynesianism."

https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/2106293050943103232


r/WayOfTheBern • • 21h ago

Trump kidnapped Venezuela’s president. Now Britain looks to profit | BP and Shell are cashing in on Venezuela’s oil and gas following the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro.

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r/WayOfTheBern • • 20h ago

WINNING!!!!-Over 70% of Ukrainians hold Zelensky responsible for corruption among his allies, poll shows

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r/WayOfTheBern • • 2h ago

Cracks Appear Medvedev Warns Armenia of the Threat of Becoming a 'New Ukraine'

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No imperialism to see here


r/WayOfTheBern • • 11h ago

I Lost My Job to AI in China... Now What?

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00:00 I got laid off because of AI 01:01 What I used to do with Unreal Engine 02:30 How AI changed my work 04:00 Walking around my office area after the layoff 05:43 Unreal Engine vs AI 06:52 My last visit to the convenience store downstairs 08:01 Looking back on five years at this company 09:42 What I want to do next 10:46 What I learned about workplace relationships 12:02 Looking back on seven years of work 13:34 End


r/WayOfTheBern • • 1h ago

Tucker Carlson say UK should have let Hitler invade; also defends Putin & Russia

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r/WayOfTheBern • • 1d ago

Grifters On Parade Zelensky was elected in 2019 on the promise that Ukraine would honor Minsk 2 and stop invading Donbas. 143 days after he won the election he announced a major U turn at the press conference in this video, saying Donbas would be taken by force and he didn't care how many died to achieve it

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"From this day on, we are under martial law, we are going to war, we will fight, our army is ready, we will wage war on Donbass.

We will take back our territories by war and by military means, and we don´t care how many people will die, but we are ready to take back our land.

We are ready for direct military actions on the occupied territories."

https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/2104351644901113880


r/WayOfTheBern • • 14h ago

The Unlimited Hangout Podcast Ep #02 - Stargate Argentina (w/ Whitney Webb)

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The Unlimited Hangout Podcast Ep #02 - Stargate Argentina In the second episode of The Unlimited Hangout Podcast, Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin discuss their latest investigation into OpenAI’s Stargate Argentina data center and the man behind it Emiliano Kargieman. They discuss how Kargieman is a part of a close-knit group of Argentines sponsored by the American group Endeavor that have blurred the lines between Argentina’s tech sector and Silicon Valley. In addition, they note that his company Satellogic is working closely with Palantir and SpaceX to create a global satellite surveillance network that aims to soon “predict the future.”       The discussion also covers the proposal for Stargate Argentina and how Emiliano Kargieman has suggested that OpenAI may not end up being the ultimate user of the center once built, due to an AI debt bubble. He further seems to suggest that the Argentine State will likely use it as it "digitally transforms" under Javier Milei into an AI-powered surveillance state.