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The Pirate Party Now the Biggest Party In Iceland
jrepin writes The Pirate Party now measures as the largest political party in Iceland, according to a new servey from the Icelandic market and research company MMR which regularly surveyes the support for the political parties in Iceland. Support for political parties and the government was surveyed in the period between the 13thand 18th of March. The results show that The Pirate Party has gained increased support. Now, support for The Pirate Party totals 23.9%, compared to their previous 12.8% in the last MMR survey.
You shouldn't directly assume that the Pirate Party has any politics regarding copyright infringement.
While many of the different Pirate Parties to some extent have freedom of information exchange on their agenda the main reason for their popularity is the push for more government transparency and less insight in personal lives.
Voters have in general lost faith in the block politics that only argue about if people should have to pay for services directly or if the government should be a middle man, partly because the traditionally liberal parties have switched over to a more non-liberal fascist line.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that a party shows up with a main point that the government should have less knowledge and less influence over the individual to replace the void left by the older parties.
Hyperbolic, but the message has some truth.. Iceland is tiny (population wise) has negligible defence capabilities and could be dealt with by overnight installation of puppet government in the manner normally reserved for banana republics. The days where you weren't allowed to do that to developed countries populated by white people are behind us..
We need a US Pirate Party. They're kind of a one-platform party, but at least it seems to be a rational platform that you can actually explain to someone. I'm guessing the average Pirate Party candidate is much less likely to be a hypocrite than some of the other parties' candidates.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
The Snowden bill seems more fitting to a Pirate Party than the EU citizenship. The Pirate Party has been around on a global scale for quite a while now, even getting some members in the EU parliment. They typically take a stance for Internet freedom, against heavy intellectual property laws, and for privacy.
Utterly false:
Iceland seeks end to austerity with new center-right government.
And the "...politicians who caused the mess" were re-elected in 2013.
Iceland is a country of 323.000 people, of which some 200.000 live in the Reykjavik metro area.
Iceland's electorate is some 235.000 people (of which some 63% actually show up).
Reykjavik's electorate is some 85.000 people (of which some 66-75% actually show up) of which some 20.000 voted for the Best Party in 2010.
Which was a "member of the International Pirate Party, but not associated with Pirate Party Iceland".
They elected a comedian and a talkshow host JÃn Gnarr in 2010, and have dissolved the party after that one term in the office.
Among the political promises were the following: "a polar bear for the city's petting zoo; palm trees for its icy waterfront; free towels at its swimming pools; a rearrangement of statues; and a commitment to "sustainable transparency."
Their political platform was not much different, promising open corruption, canceling all debts, free bus rides and free dental - constantly making a point that they are just making promises, with no plan of keeping them.
The president of Iceland has been in office since 1996. They keep voting him in.
Number of votes he won last time - 84.036.
His major opponent, a journalist with the national TV service, won 52.795 votes.
It is basically a large town.
In a geographically favorable place, just off the coast of everything, with free geo-thermal energy.
Those who do vote are voting by inertia or by treating politics as a joke.
It's just the same as everywhere else in the western world, only colder, smaller and with more volcanoes and less army.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens