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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

oh, id ask him bout

  • current gouvernment implementation (includin social democracy) n ask him whad he thinks bout em ~ <3
    • also how we cn motivate peeps to actualli do som real revolution for once, since thad might be a possibiliti, cuz young peeps lik myself r rather left leanin, as seen here in the german elections with peeps under 18 years old

with the biggest portion being "the left" which,,.... r vrri left. but also sadli lik 15 percent som fascists with the "afd" ;( i believe (spd is alsuu left,, but more... center... but still left! lik - mor than the american democrats, certainly!) i believe we cn do revolution with the youth! <3 the elderly voted like - 4% for the left ;(

  • the foss
  • currnt state of capitalism, n how to make evn not young peeps see how things r clearly messed up, n thad sof corrections will not make billionars share their capital...
    • i wan to discuss with him how we cn get the gud out of the human! how to stop forcing peeps into this thought of "moni is evrithin", for exampl, by stoppin to treat it lik its "the ultimate reward"! we humans shud not care bout the moni, but what we cn GET with the moni! nice holidays! restaurant weekend with family! maybe getting materials to build a cool lil garden into backyard! <3
  • i wud ask him how his day was <3 πŸŒ„πŸ’–
  • whad he thinks of the llms n the ai in general... (probably largely positive, as some models rlli cn automate work, which, in fully automated gay space communism, would lead to even less human work bein required, which is gud! bt sadly we dun live in this world.. ;( we hav to fear livin on the street cuz evil companies can "optimize you away"... ;( )
  • i wud totally ask him if he has any questions, cuz im sure we cn get into mor intrstng conversations thad, way, cuz yea, my mind is still vrri much this:

visual representation of my mind

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

SPD is center and conservative, CDU is on the right to far right, AFD are fascists. So half of the young people voted for right-leaning to outward fascist parties. (Last Bundestagswahl young people also heavily voted for the FDP.)

I bet this has to do with the divide of young cis men and everyone else. But young people certainly aren't only voting for the left in Germany!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

yes i kno, fine, u win, r u happy now? ;(

i like to dream... ;(

big sad.... but what has anything to do with the divide of cis men?... i rlli dun get whad ur sayin with anythin...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well, AFD are especially advertising to young men and cis men are much more likely to have conservative values (because they benefit them much more). On the other hand, we have the leftwing emancipatory parties such as Die Linke that are inclusive of everyone else and that probably get more votes of marginalized people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

oh.... i didn kno thad. ive heart of the afd peeps bein vrri active on the tiktok and stuff, evn my social studies teacher, who is in some form part of that party, does tiktok streams.

so guess that is part of that very specific advertising...

i like to imagine that most cis guys r reasonable, not selfish and actually pretty nice (and thus, non afd voters).

so.... if the lefties made som good ads which target... lik - those peeps too... mayb thad wud work out....

also, who in their right mind is still voting for cdu?... merkel seemed like a nice person, but .... merz? yea naw.