Lia Hunter
@sylvanfae.bsky.social
Philosophy/Enviro Studies dual major (Anthropology minor), writer, editor, Druid, and partner of @freudianslap.bsky.social. Into history/prehistory, social dynamics/culture, science, reading, writing, poetry, fiber arts, gardening, the arts, etc.
The twisting/spin is the actual problem. Right-wing propaganda has emptied the nation’s words and values, and employed them to tear down everything we always stood for. Remaining ethical and retaining our meaning is not the problem, it’s the resistance to the problem!
September 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The twisting/spin is the actual problem. Right-wing propaganda has emptied the nation’s words and values, and employed them to tear down everything we always stood for. Remaining ethical and retaining our meaning is not the problem, it’s the resistance to the problem!
Empathy is not weakness, and goodness is not empty passivity. This is a twisting, and it is, itself, empty rhetoric, especially if you don’t provide evidence that anyone’s ethics or goodness are the problem.
September 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Empathy is not weakness, and goodness is not empty passivity. This is a twisting, and it is, itself, empty rhetoric, especially if you don’t provide evidence that anyone’s ethics or goodness are the problem.
Absolution? Since when?
Which goodness is empty?
The kind of people who call empathy a sin say things like this.
Which goodness is empty?
The kind of people who call empathy a sin say things like this.
September 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Absolution? Since when?
Which goodness is empty?
The kind of people who call empathy a sin say things like this.
Which goodness is empty?
The kind of people who call empathy a sin say things like this.
Even then, responding to injustice with injustice is not the way. I don't even want to joke about it, because that normalizes violence. Let's practice the just world we want, and show everyone that it works.
June 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Even then, responding to injustice with injustice is not the way. I don't even want to joke about it, because that normalizes violence. Let's practice the just world we want, and show everyone that it works.
Oh, so he sent his personal, private bombs, not the U.S. military's...? 🙄
June 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Oh, so he sent his personal, private bombs, not the U.S. military's...? 🙄
What excuses? I just pointed out that we should hold onto our ethics and our neighbors/family's humanity, even/especially in the face of times like these.
June 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
What excuses? I just pointed out that we should hold onto our ethics and our neighbors/family's humanity, even/especially in the face of times like these.
Body shaming isn't cool, even when doing it to "the other team" (and we shouldn't be thinking in team sports politics, anyway).
June 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Body shaming isn't cool, even when doing it to "the other team" (and we shouldn't be thinking in team sports politics, anyway).
Let's word it more like "that man's position is dangerous when it is filled by someone using irresponsible rhetoric, like this." Let's not paint a target on a person, either.
June 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Let's word it more like "that man's position is dangerous when it is filled by someone using irresponsible rhetoric, like this." Let's not paint a target on a person, either.
I know it gets difficult to control our anger at times, in these times, especially. But let's watch out for doing the thing we're objecting to.
June 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I know it gets difficult to control our anger at times, in these times, especially. But let's watch out for doing the thing we're objecting to.
Let's not take their irresponsible rhetoric and just aim it back at them. We object to it because it's inappropriate, so we can't turn around and do it, too.
June 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Let's not take their irresponsible rhetoric and just aim it back at them. We object to it because it's inappropriate, so we can't turn around and do it, too.
These are our neighbors and family. Trump is harming them, even if they're signing up for it, unwittingly.
June 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
These are our neighbors and family. Trump is harming them, even if they're signing up for it, unwittingly.
No, we don't want to solve our problems with death. We're not the right.
June 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
No, we don't want to solve our problems with death. We're not the right.
Not to mention the automatic senior water rights nuclear has to have... in a warming world where water is going to become increasingly hard to come by.
April 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Not to mention the automatic senior water rights nuclear has to have... in a warming world where water is going to become increasingly hard to come by.
And I wish everybody would stop forgetting about the unsolved problem of nuclear waste.
April 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
And I wish everybody would stop forgetting about the unsolved problem of nuclear waste.
No one should be. We do actually believe in due process and no cruel and unusual punishment. They aren't just platitudes.
April 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
No one should be. We do actually believe in due process and no cruel and unusual punishment. They aren't just platitudes.
If only they worked for us. The Princeton study showed us that's not the case.
April 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
If only they worked for us. The Princeton study showed us that's not the case.
We don't actually want anyone to be put there. It's not about the deservingness of any prisoners in question, it's about the ethics of gulag and suspending due process of law. It's about OUR humanity and morals if we allow that.
April 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
We don't actually want anyone to be put there. It's not about the deservingness of any prisoners in question, it's about the ethics of gulag and suspending due process of law. It's about OUR humanity and morals if we allow that.
Reposted by Lia Hunter
The irony of a felon who used the courts relentlessly to keep himself out of jail & dispensing of due process for others will probably not be lost on historians.
April 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The irony of a felon who used the courts relentlessly to keep himself out of jail & dispensing of due process for others will probably not be lost on historians.
Reposted by Lia Hunter
Maybe I meant I can appreciate that they are fallible humans like we all are (I've been misguided before), and that they're neighbors I need to coexist with [unless they need to be (humanely) sequestered for everyone's safety...], even though their misguidedness is a problem and needs addressing.
April 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Maybe I meant I can appreciate that they are fallible humans like we all are (I've been misguided before), and that they're neighbors I need to coexist with [unless they need to be (humanely) sequestered for everyone's safety...], even though their misguidedness is a problem and needs addressing.
We can respect their humanity while not respecting their beliefs or holding them as true. Respect means more "appreciate" than "admire" in this kind of case. I can appreciate that my neighbors are misguided without disowning them as neighbors or humans because they are misguided.
April 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
We can respect their humanity while not respecting their beliefs or holding them as true. Respect means more "appreciate" than "admire" in this kind of case. I can appreciate that my neighbors are misguided without disowning them as neighbors or humans because they are misguided.