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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."
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online branch recently laid the groundwork for a move away from actual flatrates to throttling beyond ridiculously outdated volume caps even though there's no technical need for it) and they don't even notice it because they've long since left behind their original goals.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.