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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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The radical left (thelemmy.club)

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[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 56 points 6 months ago (5 children)

That's honestly it. Right wing Americans don't want other people to get access to things. They think rights are a pie. If 'they' get a slice, I'll end up with less of it. Rather it's actually a bakery... You pay into it and you just get pie.

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[–] hundertzwoelf@piefed.social 8 points 6 months ago

That's an interesting analogy I've never heard before. Thanks for sharing

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

No they want to grow the pie, but just for themselves.

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[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (1 child)

They want the whole pie to themselves.

The idea of sharing is the problem. Conservatism is an "All for me" mentality.

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[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Happy pi day btw

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[–] carbonari_sandwich@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago

What is so surprising is that they are willing to have less pie for themselves to ensure that they would have more pie if they suddenly became wealthy.

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