https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tino_Chrupalla Abschnitt Außenpolitik

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/afd-russland-aktuelle-stunde-bundestag-100.html

https://de.euronews.com/2025/11/09/afd-insa

Gut, viel davon ist sicher Parterhetorik. Aber so groß ist der ideologische Unterschied zwischen Trump und seinen Silicon-Valley-Milliadären und Putin und seinen Gas-Oligarchen auch nicht.

Abgesehen davon ist die AfD eben auch kein homogener Block. Dass sich manche mit Musk und Maga und andere wieder mit Medwedjew treffen, ist nicht unmöglich.

Shared interests. Weak EU is good for non-EU blocks.

Plus, even the fascists are not homogeneous, with some of them actually believing in patriotism, and others selling out to the highest bidder (like China)

Siemous

If you can go with multiple names, I do like my parents’ reasoning: pick one interesting/local name that we like, and one that works in many cultures/languages. Something like Pierre Henry.

My alcohol and caffeine history is pretty typical, grew out of drinking and found a reasonable relationship with coffee and tea.

Now weed gives me hangovers and the potential for bad trips. I have never been a regular stoner, and I am considering limiting myself even further (every few months). Psychedelics even less, but that kind of comes by design, if you are a responsible person.

There is no way in hell that I am touching opiates or amphetamines for recreation. I know I am someone who enjoys drugs, and I don’t know if I had the willpower to stop if I start.

All in all, quite happy with the status quo. Everything in moderation, even the moderation.

Ah, the classic tolerance break. Beloved by stoners and coffee drinkers alike.

Just drink herbal tea then, I guess.

Having said that, I do feel coffee, and I am not going to stop. But herbal tea is my go-to if I want something warm and tasty late in the evening

Yeah, as a guy, I don’t want Aids (or the myriad of other things) either. It’s protecting both sides, wtf. Both people here are obviously fine with hookups, so both are a potential risk after all.

“It was revealed to me in a dream” type of comment

As a former teen that - due to other reasons - was socially pretty isolated, at this age acceptance from your peers is everything.

I’ve seen a lot of students at climate and social protests. Back in my day, if you deviated from the norm only a bit, you’d be called “edgy”, “gay”, “misled” and so on. When I look at what would have turned you into an outsider back in my not-so-distant past and beaten up after school, and what some students dare to do today, I have some hope. There are good people out there. They are just hard to see behind all the loud, stupid and malicious ones.

Yes, but: not falling into the slop machine takes willpower and learned skills. Modern social media is like a drug. Many adults use drugs responsibly to have good times, but we all agree that we should keep kids away from them.

A good point of view. Someone, somewhere will fight the odds and carry on. Someone will love, hate, create art, suffer, exploit and be exploited, create new nonsense jokes and slang, and make the same mistakes. Quite literally until the the last lights go out.

Wasn’t a core philosophy of Calvinists basically “god loves capitalism” (before the word was really established)?

Nah, that’s not it. Germany has legal and - theoretically - regulated prostitution, and society is not meaningfully different than, say, France in that redgard as far as I can tell.

There are other issues associated with it, but just that one argument alone doesn’t seem to work based on what I’ve seen.

I mean, congrats on your nihilism. If I cared about neither myself nor those close to me nor some abstract “humanity” or “society”, I would have it much easier in life.

Sadly, I still feel bad when I think of bad things happening to good people, or, even worse, me.

I don’t know about you, but:

1. I have some money. Not much, but I’d like to keep it, because food and rent is kind of required.

2. I don’t have a criminal record, and I would hate it if someone used my identity to commit crimes. At the very least, doors and lawyers are expensive.

3. Figure out how to simulate and scam me and a few million other dudes like me, and you have pretty good chances of getting elected here. That stuff is happening in all major elections now, and the results are, well, I assume you read the news.

4. I would really hate it if you send my detailed porn habits to my boss and my grandma. At the very least my boss would think I’m an idiot and don’t deserve a job working with computers and expensive machines.

Bonus argument:

I’ve been told that for years and nothing ever comes of it cause what do I got worth taking?

I’ve known people who drive without a seatbelt for years, and they haven’t died yet.

You do realise it is not about the physical phone, but what you do / have on it? That’s why I said access, and on the net.

My physical device is worth what, $50 with the half dead battery and all the scratches.

My bank and savings account is worth quite a bit more, and my non-felon status, citizenship of a (for now) democratic country and my private and professional reputation are as well.

Why do you not let someone look over your shoulder when you vote?

And if that is an unfair comparison, look at Cambridge analytica, and how things have gone downhill with AI and all that since then.

If you want some pathos, it is your civic duty as a citizen who wants to preserve liberty in a democratic coutry, to be at least somewhat independent and unpredictable from a state that wants you to be predictable and controllable.

OK, now give your phone and wallet access to anyone on the net.

Including the government, that other government, Kim Jong Un, a pimply broke teeneager in some failed ex-soviet state who doesn’t extradite to your place, Mike the Pervert (not allowed within 100m from any other living or recently deceased human by a court order), Mario NotAMobstero and Ranjin who works for $2.50/h in a scam call center.