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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.

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[–] E_coli42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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 "naΓ―ve" but just makes it more abstract.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The trouble being that this possibly makes the Nazis left wing, which nobody contemporary with them 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 1 points 1 week ago

Some change is actually bad.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

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

Right seems more tribal and more focused on in-group

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