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Icelandic Pirate Party Wins 3 seats In Parliament
First time accepted submitter Thorhs writes "According to preliminary results (all votes counted, no official word yet) the Icelandic Pirate Party was able to secure 3 members of the national Parliament, the first PP to reach a national Parliament. Things were hairy election night, the PP lost all their MPs when they dropped below the 5% barrier 'needed' in the somewhat complex election system. Thankfully they managed to slip back up above, with 5.1% of the total votes. The old 'crash parties', the ones in charge before our epic financial crash, (Independent and Progressive parties) are the prime candidates to form a new government with just over 51% of the votes, getting 40 of 63 seats. RUV (Icelandic) has good coverage."
rista punktur rassinn sjóræningjar
Google translate: slash dot butt pirates
rista punktur rassinn sjóræningjar
Google translate: slash dot butt pirates
Certainly! You just go straight until the grey brick house, turn left, 100 metres, and it's there on your right by the maple tree.
cheers,
How boring, maybe you could have said: ''fyrsta færslan'' :-)
Your comment reminds me of a certain quote by the late George Carlin: "Only dinosaurs remain; the very end of the cool used to cool."
rista punktur rassinn sjóræningjar
Google translate: slash dot butt pirates
Certainly! You just go straight until the grey brick house, turn left, 100 metres, and it's there on your right by the maple tree.
cheers,
His eyes widened as he made the sudden horrific realization, "My, what a cavernous bum you have!" said little brown posting hood...
Haha, sorry. I'm from Europe and I love this comment.
Is it actually complex, or is this one of those americanizations where anything with more than two possible outcomes is considered complex?
they would steal them!
Actually, not too many years ago, the Greens in Sweden (and, I strongly suspect, Germany) were the dumping grounds for nutjobs no other party wanted to do with. I strongly suspect that is a phase any new party has to go through on the way to become a long-term viable political force.
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
If you learned your Beowulf well in school, you shouldn't have trouble with modern Icelandic.
Golden Dawn which is basically the Nazi party in Greece once had 21 seats Parliament. With fringe elements like that being elected to power in Europe, it is not surprising if anyone can get in. U.S. politics looks tame by comparison.
What? In what kind of lala-Land do you live? Merkel's CDU is projected to win with more than 40%, the centre-left SPD will loose with just above 20%.
I already ordered a suicide booth as the prospect of yet another 4 torturing years under Mrs. Teflon watching in agony while she does nothing worthwhile makes me want to vomit.
So you plan to vomit into a suicide booth? Why not just get a vomiting booth instead?
America all the losers are on the right, and in Europe they're on the left
That's because if you get into deep water, it means that you've gone a bit too much to the right if you're American and a bit too much to the left if you're European.
Ezekiel 23:20
1. Vomit
2. Commit Suicide as the vomiting would never stop.
Merkel is worst chancellor Germany had in decades. All talk, nothing gets really done except making our neighbours very angry.
She is the George W. Bush of Germany. Albeit a lot more intelligent. Which isn't difficult.
And all mistakes are blamed and deflected on someone else.
Haven't you heard? Vomiting into suicide booths is a part of a federal plan that the Bundesministerium für Gesundheit drafted and enacted to keep suicide rated down in Germany.
Ezekiel 23:20
The Pirate Times introduces the 3 elected representatives: Iceland Report #4 : History Made by a Hair’s Breadth
Rick Falkvinge, founder of the original (Swedish) Pirate Party, comments: celandic Pirate Party WINS, Enters Parliament
Another article on TorrentFreak: Pirate Party Enters Iceland’s National Parliament After Historic Election Win
I'm glad my vote made a difference...
That's right bro'. Serious people vote for the Republocrats or the Democrans. That way, your vote really means something.
The BBC: "The two leading parties, which will now enter coalition negotiations, are also seen as
Eurosceptic, and their poll success could slow down Iceland's efforts to become a member of the European Union."
What does the BBC mean by "slow down". Why should anyone *want* to join a farce such as the EU,
and then even worse, the Euro? As if joining the EU was inevitable.
What the BBC could have said,
"The majority of the Icelandic population wants to remain free from the EU, and the Euro."
It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Ég er frá Íslandi og eins lunda og spila Warcraft.
(Sorry, blame Google Translate.)
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Iceland has a 63 member parliament and a population of 319,000.
New York City has a population of 8.245 million and a city council of 51 members.
I don't really like politics but speaking of environmental nutjobs (not about to bash AGW)... IMO, the Greens in Sweden are more left than the Left (formerly known as the Left Party Communists) judging from their debates. The Centrist Party (formerly the Farmers' Union) who tried to be a more balanced green party have gone more or less neo-liberal, completely alienating their core voters. So neither of them are long-term viable political forces at the moment. I don't know anything about Germany though.
The Swedish Pirate Party are fairly sane as far as I can tell, but since their victory in the EU elections people seem to have forgotten about them.
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I just read the comments in the FAZ (a major German newspaper) to the article about that election. Overwhelmingly BY FAR the comments were AGAINST the EU and they congratulated Iceland.
It is NOT just Britain! I am most certainly not "backwards", "anti-Europe" (in fact I prefer to see myself as "European", not German) or "right-wing", neither are those comments. Quite the opposite, actually! The point is, the EU is the LEAST democratic thing that Europe has come up with since WWII ended, and it gets worse and worse. Anyone who dares to raise any objection is immediately branded "right-wing" and "anti-Europe". It's like trying to criticize the role (and all the money for) of the military in the US - you just don't want to do that, unless you are a nobody in an Internet forum, because of the (sh..)storm.
Actually, not too many years ago, the Greens in Sweden (and, I strongly suspect, Germany) were the dumping grounds for nutjobs no other party wanted to do with. I strongly suspect that is a phase any new party has to go through on the way to become a long-term viable political force.
Not only that, they have no stance on issues other than the Internet, copyright, and 'transparency', they want a free Internet, a transparent society and from the sound of it they don't want to abolish IP but they want to drop most if not all restriction on copying and distributing IP which pretty much boils down to abolishing IP. Ask them about anything else, environmental issues, the economy, their stance on defence and you get the sort of nebulous answers one expects from people who haven't really thought about those 'other' things all that much. For a while there they even had a discussion on their policy forum about demanding that laws should be passed mandating that 25% of rental housing should be run without any consideration of profitability. In some ways the Icelandic Pirates remind me of the Anarchists of the early 20th century (and I'm not talking about the bomb throwing ones, I mean the Anarchist movements like the ones in Spain that opposed all forms of aggression except in self defence, who wanted everything to be communally owned and who wanted to abolish central government and money).
You can say that again.. I like the way they called it the "Aling" meaning all-thing ("thing" here has the old connotation of law meeting; it doesn't mean object).
Althing. Est. Anno Domini 930.
That's the essential core of democracy: everybody (well, only men in olden times) can go to the meeting and have their disputes settled and their plans discussed. On a grassy field. Preferably with some partying and quaffing going on afterwards.
Oops! My thorn has fallen off.. Slashdot, how to fix this? = U+00DE or (�xfe;) or þ or what..
To be, or not to be: isn't that quite logical, Slashdot Beta?
Hlaðinn rassinn sjóræningjar
FTFY
The German one at one point in time polled at 13% of the popular vote.
What happened? Some vested business interests got scared and started "digging up some dirt" on candidates? Insert moles/saboteurs in the party?
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
How is this limited to new parties? The Republicans in the US have recently been taken over by *religious* nutjobs - is it that much different?
Single-issue parties are not unusual; they use the fact that they have no commitment to other policies to engage in political horse-trading in favour of their issue of choice. Everyone in Iceland now knows where to go to get three votes for their policy du jour, and what it's going to cost them.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
When all the nutjobs came streaming into the party it basically imploded.
Nowadays they're basically just arguing over gender equality (the usual feminazis turned it from a valid objective into an insane obsession), basic income guarantees (without any idea beyond "money for nothing") and useless infighting by some self-obsessed idiots.
At the same time they're getting ass-raped by the government (new laws, selling out people's right to privacy and presumption of innocence more and more with every new week) and corporations (e.g., Deutsche Telekom's online branch recently laid the groundwork for a move away from actual flatrates to throttling beyond ridiculously outdated volume caps even though there's no technical need for it) and they don't even notice it because they've long since left behind their original goals.
Nowadays, they mainly just post press releases online where nobody but their own people will read them and they make themselves obsolete by outdoing the fringe wings of other parties.
When they do show up in the press it's members' dirty laundry dragged into the public, party-sponsored gender equality "discussion" events where you first have to sign that you won't support any opinions other than what the event organizers (the party's feminist fringe) deems acceptable (they even kicked a rather active member of the party out of the event because he dared to disagree) and inquiries whether the city state of Berlin is ready for the zombie apocalypse. But, my favorite example is a recent "online protest" where they met in some obscure voice chat to demonstrate against some cause in a place where absolutely nobody even gives a shit.
As a former supporter, I nowadays actually hope for someone to nuke that sorry mess from orbit so something useful can take its place again.
Right now, what they've become is pretty much their own worst enemy.
And what has how the major parties have become a US-like collection of corrupt scum where only the name on the door is different have to do with the fact that the German Pirate Party has turned into its own parody?
Since you don't even have the slightest idea what you're talking about, do us both a favor and go back to play with your sand molds.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.html
This guy.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
So, according to your very specific situation all others are wrong. Hmm, great way to form an opinion, I guess, makes your life very simple.
From other people's point of view, for example, me (German), our politicians over the last few decades (not just years) have gotten very good at this kind of game:
Whenever they want to achieve something that their population does not want, they let the EU do [insert whatever], then they explain "we cannot do anything, the EU dictates this", so the blame goes to the EU. This seems to support YOUR point of view - but actually it doesn't. This little "game" is possible only because the EU parliament is very weak (compared to the EU bureaucracy and the EU commission, neither of them accountable to an electorate), and VERY far removed from the population of the EU countries (how often do you even read anything about the parliament in your newspaper?). The EU is designed to achieve things that the people don't want, whether that happened on purpose or by accident I cannot tell (but it does not matter for the result).
If you read what Stallman has written as a note at the very top of the page, that's only relevant for the *SWEDISH* Pirate Party.
In fact when the UK Pirate Party were developing their policy they got approval from RMS...