[pp.int.general] Fwd: Really now?

[Thijs Markus]

Gregory Engels schreef op 07.06.2013 13:40:
> On 07.06.2013, at 13:29, Patrick Godschalk
> <patrick.godschalk at piratenpartij.nl> wrote:
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>> I mean, if I knew that pirates are totally cool with having
>> all their infrastructure ran by a company that has data mining
>> and tracking as its core business model, I'd never feel so
>> strongly about this! So yeah, fuck me, right?
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> I will not "fuck you", and I ask you to stop using such expressions
> while communicating with me.
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Step 1: claim moral superiority on the premise that your use of 
language is adequately dull.

> Apparently pirates are totally cool on not spending any resources
> (monetary or volunteers) on PPI, and so yes, we will stuck for
> hosting our organizational mail accounts on Google Apps.
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Step 2: claim helplessness with regards to the problem for monetary 
reasons. After all, there is never enough money, so why wouldn't it work 
in this case? Disregarding that you alledgedly chair an organisation 
comprising hundreds if not that thousands of IT savvy people who could 
help you out free of charge - if you had the credibility to do so.

> you missed the point however entirely. The PPI Mailinglists
> are run under the lists.pp-international.net subdomain, which is
> a Mailman run by us.
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> regarding your faulty arguments about the visitors of the PPI
> website, you again missed the point. Google have nothing to
> do with it, and we do not use Google Analytics or hosting.
>

Step 3: on the moral superiority established in steps 1 & 2, proclaim 
the opposing viewpoint faulty without presenting any argument.

> Instead of fighting PPI, you could concentrate on attacking your
> real political opponents, where it could contribute to changing
> the laws.
>

Step 4: for the coup de grace, point to the common enemy, and imply 
your opponent is actually helping them, whereas all good pirates should 
not bring such disconcerting things up and be happy with your benevolent 
leadership.

Step 5: realise your politicised buttsaving does more harm than you 
could possibly hope to make up for in whatever other activities you 
might or might not undertake, and kill yourself. With a rusty spoon.

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> sincerely yours,
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> Gregory Engels
> Co-Chairman
> Pirate Parties International
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