[pp.int.general] purpose of manifesto

[Carlos Ayala Vargas]

Eduardo Robles wrote:
> PSOE is the major Spanish socialist party, which is in the government 
> now by the way. PP is the other major political party here in spain, 
> which is considered to be right-wing. Those two are the only two big 
> political parties, and the situation is quite similar to USA in 
> regards to polarized bipartidism. So that's why in general everyone 
> tries to compare you with both parties PSOE and PP. Being PIRATA a 
> party which doesn't want be clasified as either right-wing (like PP) 
> or left-wing (like PSOE) we struggle with the problem of people 
> thinking that our acronym is PP instead of PIRATA.
>
> Really, it's incredible how many people try to find if we are in one 
> side or another, and some of those which are eskeptical about our 
> political stances use malicius acronyms like PPirata as Carlos 
> mentioned earlier. Other than that, I personally don't mind if 
> internally in this list some people sometimes refer to us as "Spanish 
> PP" because I know what you are referering to, but as you can see it 
> can be troublesome for us if that acronym gets popularized, so better 
> try to use another one. The most obvious could be PIRATA =). And if we 
> want to reer to all the pirata parties, well as someone has said, one 
> good way might be "the pirate movement", I think.
>
> For being a pirate movement it's important that we define well our own 
> pirate language. The manifiesto is part of it. A good example of that 
> is that the RIAA & co use their own malicius language, and we don't 
> want make the mistake of adopting it, because what we say is defined 
> by how we say it, and thu by the words and expressions used, which can 
> have second or negative meanings.
Didn't see your mail -had 30 in a row-. Agree with it all. Regards,