<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Will Pomes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pomescollege@gmail.com">pomescollege@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks for the explanation. It really helps.<br>
2 questions though:<br>
1) Who makes the comparison? 2) What is PSOE?</blockquote><div><br>Hi,<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br><br>Just my 2c, regards,<br> Eduardo Robles Elvira (PIRATA member, Spain)<br></div></div>