Die Piratenpartei
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Saturday 9 May 2009 18:37

If you can't fit your message on your banner you're a fuc...legaleze

The goals of the Piratenpartei Deutschland aren't
bad. Looks like they know what they are talking
about, I know what they are talking about, and I
might even vote for them, since I registered as a
European German voter last friday.

But if they call themselves pirates, aren't they
just a bunch of fuckwits? They have the question
right there in their FAQ, but they don't even
bother to anwser it correctly, or at least they
fail for thruthiness because of the obviously
conveniently inserted "nur" in the question. Of
course picking up the pirate theme will make any
normal voter stay away from it! Ironic in-jokes by
definition only work for those already in the
specific social group. Most people aren't even
interested in politics anyway, and they will
certainly not bother to try to find out that the
name of a political party has a fucked up ironic
meaning. They aren't going to research if perchance
"Die Gruene" isn't actually an anti-environment
party or "Die Linke" may be a right wing party, and
any party that thinks they are so special that
people will bother to do that research for their
special party are a bunch of fuckwits. People won't
get it, and the pirates won't get their votes.

But more likely is that they aren't interested in
the about 95% of the voters who won't get it
anyway. Just organize some opinion enough to get
all the privileges of a political party and then
avoid taking the responsibility which might prove
you were wrong all the time. The Loveparade was a
political festival so the government would pick up
the bill, that's how things work in Germany. And
then keep saying you're really working hard on
changing things, but the establishment keeps you
down with all their evil money. For the rest of
your life with a nice bag of money from the
taxpayers. And don't they realize a country with 20
single issue parties in power has actually nothing
in power? Maybe they realized that, but the other
parties they could be a part of also thought they
were a bunch of fuckwits and would rather not be
associated with them. With friends like that you
don't need enemies.

I mean, they are up against this...

by Roland van Ipenburg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/dull/2009/05/09/piratenpartei/