[pp.int.general] purpose of manifesto

[Per von Zweigbergk]

24 jan 2009 kl. 17.20 skrev Carlos Ayala Vargas:

> Will Pomes wrote:
>> All valid points carlos, but aren't you being slightly defensive  
>> here?
>>
> Maybe, but if you had lived the Spanish political environment, if  
> everyone here had, you all would inmediately understand it.
>
> Here in Spain, when a new party is born, the comparison is made:
>
> - it supports or /improves/ PSOE stances: good
> - it disagrees with PSOE stances: it's a PP satellite ==> it's / 
> right-wing, fascist, francoist, machoist/, etc.
>
> e.g., the people who use the /PPirata/ stuff found amusing to find  
> out that the International URL is *pp*-international.net
>
> We want to secure for the public opinion our political personality  
> and independence, thus that's the reason for us to be so important  
> not being called PP -neither nationally nor internationally-.


The entire reason for the name "Pirate Party" is to adopt a negative  
label "pirate" and turn it into something positive.

If some people think it's funny to make word play using an acronym you  
don't even use yourselves in the country -- well, I don't think that's  
a big problem. Such childish arguments in the end only backfire on the  
person using them.

-- 
Per von Zweigbergk

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