[pp.int.general] pp.international.general Digest, Vol 47, Issue 4

[Justus Römeth]

I really didn't mean this as an attack against Rick, and am sorry if it 
seemed as one.
I wanted to describe the phenomenon that, as far as I can see, pirates 
in general are rather unhappy with their political leadership, 
independently of who was/is elected. In general that is a good thing, 
but it sometimes makes for a climate in the conversations that is not 
very friendly, and I think that is the case here.
I jokingly inserted the comment about Rick there, as he just stepped 
down and everybody seems to praise him. Without knowing and Swedish it 
is hard to really know what's going on precisely within PPSE (and I 
frankly also lack the time to follow you guys closely), but I never 
doubted that you also saw Rick and his actions in a critical light. 
Sorry if that wasn't clear in my previous post.

In short I agree with everything you wrote in your mail, and the 2nd 
paragraph also rephrases the problem I wanted to actually discuss. 
Please carry on ;-)

-J

On 03.01.11 12:42, Amelia Andersdotter wrote:
>
>
> On 3 January 2011 11:02, Justus Römeth <squig at dfpx.de 
> <mailto:squig at dfpx.de>> wrote:
>
>     So basically, Pirates are not happy with their leadership unless
>     the name of the leader is Falkvinge.
>
>
>
> That seems like a gross over-simplification. Many people have been 
> partly critical of Rick, but he has the time, the 
> ideological/organisational weight ("founder" and "former party 
> chairman" weights heavily for a party that managed to get EP seats) 
> and is very social, down-to-earth with almost anything except 
> sometimes women with whom he is just social, or used to be. We had 
> some media stuff about this in Sweden sometimes, I guess, or I'm 
> exaggerating, but my understanding is that he is in a happy 
> relationship just now.
>
> Pirates seem to be generally dissatisfied with any kind of leadership, 
> which is also what makes Rick a good leader. He more or less lets 
> people do whatever they want, and then he does what he wants to do and 
> everyone is happy and get lots of things done. I personally view 
> organisations and bureaucracy as needed only for handling money, 
> because money is such an extremely conflictful issue.
>
> /a
>
>
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