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Welcome to YUROP
The Ultimate Eurozone of Culture, Chaos, and Continental Excellence

A glorious gathering place to celebrate (and lovingly roast) the lands, peoples, quirks, and contradictions of Her Most Magnificent Europa. From the fjords to the Med, the steppes to the Atlantic spray, this is a shrine to everything that makes Europe gloriously weird, wonderfully diverse, and occasionally passive-aggressive in 24 languages.

Here we toast:
🇪🇺 The progressive Union of Peace (and paperwork)
🧀 The freest of health care
🍷 The finest of foods
🏳️‍🌈 The liberalest of liberties
🌍 The proud non-members and honorary cousins 💶 And the eternal dance of unity, confusion, and cultural banter.

Post memes, news, satire, linguistic wars, train maps, cursed food photos, Eurovision fever, propaganda and whatever makes you scream “only in YUROP.”

Leave your stereotypes at the border control and enjoy the ride.

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[–] E_coli42@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I think a better one is acceptance of change.

Right: Resistant to change
Left: Accepting of change

Sometimes change is good, sometimes the world is not ready. I think this aligns closely with "cynical" and "naïve" but just makes it more abstract.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago

The trouble being that this possibly makes the Nazis left wing, which nobody contemporary saw them as.

In school this was taught to me as reactionary-conservative-progressive-radical and contrasted with left vs. right.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Some change is actually bad.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Right seems more tribal and more focused on in-group

Left seems more accepting of out-group, people who are different

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not bad but might apply more to liberalism IMO. I think the word "accepting" (of change) is doing a lot of work when you consider revolutionary communism, whose whole mission is to force change at any cost.

The left-right dichotomy is almost completely useless IMO. "Almost" because for some mysterious reason everybody can situation themself on it. I think it's more about identity than anything else. Football teams.