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The Pirate Party Now the Biggest Party In Iceland

Posted by timothy on from the relative-vs-absolute dept.

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.

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  1. so by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    feel free to seed bjork torrents guilt free

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
    1. Re:so by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      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.

  2. It's Iceland by jratcliffe · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can be the largest political party there and still have your membership fit inside a Ford Transit van without violating any seatbelt laws.

  3. Re:Sounds like it's time... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That being true, keep in mind that most of the money in Icelandic banks was from foreign depositors. It's easy to oppose the bailout in such a scenario.

  4. Re:voting age reform by Immerman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Before you go blaming the young, perhaps you should look around at the state of the world and think long and hard about what the old have been doing with it for generations.

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  5. Re:Sounds like it's time... by barc0001 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Banks fail, even in places like Iceland, the UK and the US. Now, many countries have bodies set up to guarantee a certain amount of a given account's deposits, like the FDIC in the US will guarantee the first $250K in an account if the bank fails. But then again the US also has almost 400 million people and the largest economy in the world. It'd be a little insane to expect that Iceland with a population of less than 350,000 people could offer the same guarantees, especially on foreign deposits in privately operated banks. That would be privatizing profit, but socializing the risk, hardly fair.

    There are always risks, you took one, it went badly. Such is life.