#as is Europe

[rocketjo]

There is no such thing as "European culture"

There is no such thing as a unified European, Western or White culture. As there is no unified Eastern or Asian culture. I get what they meant - puritan protestant English culture, predominantly sexist, classist and racist. The kind of Europe that bred the modern US which is perceived as the "Western culture" today. But that's not European. It's industrial period English. There is also a point to make for Athenean culture (not Greek or Ancient Greek, as Athen was more or less it's on country back then, even if it had some influence over the rest of what's now Greek - similar to how protestant English and Dutch views shaped huge parts of middle and northern Europe and extremist-catholic views shaped the Southeast). But then there is a French tradition, a German one, a Swedish, a Swiss, a Polish, an Italian, a Spanish etc. Europe is and will be a hodgepodge and that's surely one of the reasons why the EU as a political system is pretty useless (as of now, who knows how it will evolve). We all learned our diffrent lessons from history, from somewhat diffrent histories even. Have a look at the middle ages or the early modern times, look at how extremly diffrent we've progressed (especially England, Austria and France, a little bit later Germany). And then look at how we in Europe almost collectivley scratch our head about the US. It's diffrent. In a lot of ways. And we're proudly diffrent from each other as well. That's why Europe is rife with racism, but in a diffrent form than rascism happening in the US. That's why some problems don't seem to concern us (as much). Because we have our own typical problems which we should take care of first. And my, we have A LOT of them, even if we exclude things like colonialism and the major World Wars from the list. Does America even know that there's a 3000-year history between diffrent European contries and their cultures? Also: Disney stole European fairytales and made them into distinctive US-versions. The dwarfs had neither names nor personality, but the huntsman was a major character. Cinderella is an amalgamation of diffrent similar tales from middle and eastern Europe. And what the heck is this Rapunzel-story? (Don't get me wrong, I like Tangled a lot. But it's not the German tale anymore. And Frozen is an abomination of the original Andersen-story, as is The little Mermaid). The white US entertainment industry "steals" from all of us and makes it their own. So maybe we should come together instead of trying to hate on each other. This only empowers the wrong people.

[leefsnakesnake]

There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for. EDIT: There are also some things people outside the EU can do, as well as additional things some people in specific EU countries like Germany and France can do that aim to solve this same issue as well. You can find that here. (https://www.stopkillinggames.com/)

(Note: There was a petition for UK people but the recent politics stuff there means it's on hold and has to be resubmitted and that may take some time.)

Additionally if you want to keep up with this you can check out Ross Scott (Accursed Farms on youtube or his website) who has been posting monthly about this and deserves a lot of credit for all this work.

(I hope that's all the stuff I missed)

EDIT 2: I changed the link to go directly to the form instead, this SHOULD work!

[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'There's a petition to ban conversion therapy in the EU' to Cas' 'I love you'. /End ID]

If you are a citizen in the EU please sign this petition:

[sanshofox]

It‘s scary to see how very important european petitions get no visibility whatsoever. We had a basic income petition last year which failed because not enough people knew about it. Now we have a „tax the rich“ one that only lasts until october this year and only has around 250k out of 1 mio. signings.

Most EU people go through their every day life w/o knowing about them. There are no ads, no marketing…nothing. I know that costs money though one might think important petitions that lead to a better and progressive life would be supported by the government or ministries in some way, but nooooo

And why should they? It’s petitions that would help out the poor and middle class, but endanger capitalism and their exploitation, sooo: government and business leads for example.

So here the link for those who are interested:

[froody]

countries will be like “nooooo our birth rate is falling exponentially and it’s effecting our economy” and immigrants will be like “hey can you let us in so we can boost your economy and fill your empty jobs and raise our children here” and inevitably the country is like “the only thing worse than a large scale collapse of our population is letting foreigners live here”

[sunnysatyr]

Hey, if you have half a minute and care about the LGTBQIA+ community in the EU, I'd suggest you take a look at this initiative to ban conversion therapies in the EU.

1 million people are required to sign, but there's barely 100k. The form takes less than a minute, it only requires your ID, name and surname.

Please, help spread the initiative so that it can reach the goal ASAP! If you're not from the EU and can't sign, at least reblog! Thanks in advance.

[sugaldean]

Tagging this with gay fandoms sorry

There's currently a European proposition to ban conversion practice in Europe

If you're European please sign it

If you're not please reblog

Edit 1: Just in case the previous link doesn't bring you where you need here

Edit 2: It's EU not Europe sorry

[without-ado]

Northern Lights

l May 2024 l Andrew McCarthy l Logan Parham l Shane Ware l Joseph Alsousou l Neil Thomas l Greg Sheard l Sebastian Voltmer l TheSolarCan

[etchif]

Inspired by the USA states poll I just reblogged! Take this quiz to see how many European countries you can name in 8 minutes :^)

[herpsandbirds]

Provence Hairstreak (Tomares ballus), family Lycaenidae, found in northern Africa and SW Europe

photograph by @yaylalperen

[heritageposts]

To any Europeans reading, please consider sharing this fundraiser with your friends and family.

It's for @bilal-salah0, a 22 year old Palestinian refugee who, while trying to raise funds for his family in Gaza, is facing the possibility of an imminent deportation from Germany. It might happen as early as next week, which is why his fundraiser is so urgent.

I of course encourage everyone who can to share and donate, but I especially think us Europeans, with the current and terrifying uptick in anti-immigration rhetoric and violence, have an extra responsibility of helping Bilal.

For more information on Bilal's current situation, please read this post from one of his friends.

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A Cloud and Landscape Study by Moonlight by Johan Christian Dahl

[karemandohan1999]

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We have been displaced several times, and our tragedy has reached the point that we now live in a tent that is unfit for living. We desperately need your help, I have launched a donation campaign but I cannot get the funds so I can get $50000 to get through this current crisis.

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Before the war and after the war, this is what happened to us😔💔

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[lsleofskye]

Ilhéu da Vila In Azores islands | danielkordan

[dixt]

bathtub in château laurens, france