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[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I’ll NEVER understand how so many of y’all were hoodwinked into the belief that the government should NOT use the money you pay in taxes to create a social safety net that benefits you, fund public healthcare, lower housing costs, and make daily life more affordable.

[Juliana Castaño ⚡ @lapetittejulia]

Tu postura política no es una simple opinión, es el reflejo de tu conciencia social, empatía y tus valores.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Socialism is the fire department saving your house.

Capitalism is the insurance company denying your claim.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You have to pay tax on home value, which is unrealized. They should have to do the same.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Police DON’T prevent crime. They respond to it. Higher wages, guaranteed health care, food security, high quality child care, housing, good schools, and addiction treatment prevent crime.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

A houseplant just changed everything we thought we knew about consciousness.

In 1966, Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist with a polygraph machine, was looking for ways to time how long it took different substances to travel up through plant tissue.

So, he attached electrodes to a dracaena plant in his office and watered it, expecting to see the electrical conductivity change as water moved up the stem.

Instead, the polygraph needle started tracing the exact pattern it makes when a human experiences an emotional response.

Backster stared at the readout. Plants don't have nervous systems. They don't have brains. The signal made no biological sense. So he decided to test something that made even less sense. He walked across the room, looked at the plant, and thought about burning one of its leaves with a match.

The instant the thought formed in his mind, before he moved toward the plant, before he struck a match, before he did anything physical, the polygraph exploded into frantic activity.

The plant was responding to his intention.

What happened next launched thousands of experiments and split the scientific community for decades.

Backster discovered that plants reacted to direct threats and to threats against other living things in their environment. When he dropped live brine shrimp into boiling water in another room, plants throughout the building registered distress responses at the exact moment of death. Distance didn't matter. Shielding the plants in lead containers didn't matter. The response was instantaneous and consistent.

Mainstream botanists dismissed the findings immediately. Plants process information through chemical signals and growth responses, without electrical consciousness. Any electrical activity was just random fluctuation or experimental error. The peer review system buried Backster's work. His credentials were questioned. His methods were called sloppy.

But the experiments kept working. Other researchers, following Backster's protocols, got the same results. Plants hooked to EEG machines showed brain wave patterns. They responded to music, to human emotions, to the intentions of people they had never been exposed to before. The electrical signatures were clear, measurable, and repeatable.

The implications were so uncomfortable that most of academic science simply refused to engage. If plants were somehow conscious, if they could sense intentions and respond to the emotional states of humans and other living things, consciousness was spread beyond brains. It was distributed across organized living systems rather than produced by neural networks.

Backster stumbled onto evidence that living systems might be constantly communicating through channels we don't have instruments to measure yet. The polygraph was crude enough to detect the electrical signatures of that communication without being sophisticated enough to explain them away.

Quantum biologists now suspect that living cells operate through quantum coherence processes that classical biology can't account for. Birds navigate using quantum entanglement in their visual systems. Plants conduct photosynthesis using quantum superposition to find the most efficient energy pathways. Maybe Backster's plants were demonstrating quantum consciousness, responding to information that was quantum entangled with the intentions and emotional states of nearby living systems.

What keeps most people awake when they learn about this work is realizing that if consciousness extends beyond brains, every living thing around you is potentially aware of your mental and emotional state in ways you never considered. The plant in your room. The bacteria in your gut. The ecosystem you walk through.

You think your thoughts are private.

The plants have been listening the entire time.

[𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚜 @Know_Bueno]

Kids today will never know that before the internet, we sat down on Sunday nights to watch Bob Saget host TikTok on television

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Remember when they sold us the slogan, “Go paperless, save trees, save the planet”?

Now we've gone digital, and it's consuming enormous amounts of water, destroying ecosystems, harming bees, and contributing to environmental damage on a scale paper never did.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

One sign of a dying empire is having gladiator fights at the Capitol for the emperor's amusement.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Capitalism is better than socialism because one man gets to be a trillionaire instead of everyone having healthcare

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

There’s literally a children’s board game whose whole premise is showing how free market capitalism ends with one person owning everything while everyone else goes bankrupt.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

People really compare dyinġ from poverty to Darwin’s “survival of the fittest.”

Poverty is a social construct driven by wealth hoarding in the post industrial age, not by any natural shortage of resources.

[The Constitutionalist 🇺🇸 @WeWillBeFree24]

Vivek Ramaswamy was responsible for the Covid lockdowns in Ohio.

Vivek and his biotech company were the driving force behind the lockdowns, medical surveillance, and acted as the primary advisor to Acton. Ramaswamy stayed on the Ohio Covid Response Board long after Acton resigned.

Since, Vivek has been actively involved in Ohio's shadow government working with some of the most corrupt Ohio programs that are actively working to inundate Ohio with Data Center tech and biotech surveillance:
- Innovate Ohio
- Ohio X

The Ohio GOP, notably Husted, had Vivek in the tunnels long before he announced his candidacy for Governor.

[le sociologue grincheux @OhHowByronic]

Spot on.

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Lol remember when conservatives would lose their shit if you dared to try and take down a confederate statue saying don't erase our culture and history? Classic. These toilet fish are the absolute worst.

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

Every voter should ask themselves why this ok.

[freckledfighter, M.Ed @FrLyss]

@damnidc__ And Ivermectin=sinful abortion