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VOTE on a SHINY BALLOON QUOTE!!

  • I CAN HAVE RADICAL COMPASSION FOR YOU AND NOT INVITE YOU OVER FOR DINNER  68
  • HAVING COMPASSION FOR PEOPLE YOU CANNOT STAND IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT  122
  • EMPATHY IS NOT ENDORSEMENT  182
  • YOUR LACKOF EMPATHY AND COMPASSIONIS NOT THE FLEXTHAT YOU THINKIT IS  74
  • RADICAL EMPATHY WITHOUT SELF PROTECTION IS SELF DESTRUCTION  45
  • 2025-10-24
  • 491 votes
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Hello loves.

I NEED HELP! Vote

I owe you a post about the show in Seattle.....it was one of the most powerful and magical weird little piano shows of my career; I need a moment to collect my thoughts there , and FIRST, I need a vote.

I'm going to be working with this incredible artist over the weekend, Michael Schneider, AKA Blcksmth, in Portland.

He does THIS:

We are gonna do a shoot (sssshhh!!!) and I am trying to come up with the best and most Amanda-Palmer-y quote/slogan befitting the moment, and I want feedback.

I just polled a Seattle living room room full of teenagers....they had FEELINGS.

I'll let you know how they weighed in AFTER you vote.....so…..please vote.

Imagine the slogan IN BALLOON, it helps. Please also be my Cancel Captains and imagine how much I'm gonna get YELLED AT! Clearly, always, but bolster my oh captains my captains!!

Always open to other quote ideas, and the quote can be BY ANYONE, so if you wanna post a quote in the comments you think might be worthy, hit me. Or I'll just use your original IF IT IS AMAZING.

Hit the comments - go!!!

If anyone posts a runaway amazing original quote and you love it - upvote !!!!

1.

I CAN HAVE RADICAL COMPASSION
FOR YOU AND NOT
INVITE YOU OVER FOR DINNER 

2.

HAVING 
COMPASSION 
FOR PEOPLE 
YOU CANNOT STAND 
IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT 

3.

EMPATHY IS NOT ENDORSEMENT 

(Dylan Marron)

4.

YOUR LACK
OF EMPATHY AND 
COMPASSION
IS NOT THE FLEX
THAT YOU THINK
IT IS 

5.

RADICAL EMPATHY WITHOUT 
SELF PROTECTION 
IS
SELF DESTRUCTION 

GO ! VOTE!!!

Love from gorgeous Seattle

Xxxx

A

Comments

Eric Zager

I like that #3 is a message to both "us" and "them."

Aliya

I understand the sentiment of #3 in other times, but to me it feels less revolutionary in these times. We all know (the good ones) we should have empathy - but I feel like #1 hits harder: boundaries, the concept of compassion in your home and protecting your heart (and dinner table), and the current of action.

Nancy Manocherian

Empathy and Compassion are radical steps to unity

J.j. Larrea

I agree with this. #1 combines the personal with the political, which I think is much more on-brand for Amanda. #3 could be (and has been) stated by anyone at any time — too generic.

J.j. Larrea

YOUR FASCISM IS OUR CHALLENGE with a column of alternates under FASCISM: RACISM SEXISM SADISM SOCIOPATHY (what else?)

Pedro B. Gorman

As usual, poignant, beautiful words ❤️❤️❤️❤️

James G Watt

I like 2 because some of the others feel like you're having to justify or explain yourself. 2 is just a straight forward assertion of belief.

Merlin Payne Swayze

Option one is the one with the most impactful, the others are wonderful and give too many options to be dismissed by an audience outside of ourselves. I LOVE “empathy is not endorsement” but it needs an “an” before endorsement…