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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Factor that, Mozart. And please, do correct the numerous spelling errors, grammatical misconstructs, and other artefacts alien to "Five Star" English. I'm sure me and Mr. Natural share at least two other languages we might feel more comfortable sharing thoughts with if you ever dare play teacher again.<br><br>At this moment, the Pirate Parties simply do not know what to be. It is as simple as that.<br><br>Originally, as one can read in the writings of Rick Falkvinge, the Pirate Party was (and still is in a few cases) a very pragmatic construction. So pragmatic even, that it was strategically not viable because of the ethical and emotional blunder of its master strategy. As much as it likes to boast about the 2009 European election results... it came because of all but pirate merits, concentrating all protest votes at a moment when protest votes were politically possible due to the free publicity gotten with the trial to "The Pirate Bay" that coincided with the period of the election campaign. That advantage, and the funding and salaries that come with it, will probably end on may 25th 2014. All other electoral results, before AND after that one, have been the normal statistical noise of forceless fringe party.<br><br>Got a very pragmatic pat on the shoulder a certain Saturday evening in Brussels, to remember nothing has changed.<br><br>Most of the other pirate parties have fallen prey to simplistic populism, the kind that voted in as full member of the PPI the ultrasimplistic and megapopulist Catalan Pirate Party because the look and feel was dear to them... damn Statutes, damn logic, damn ethic, damn any kind of coherence. And the very pragmatic Board and other bureaucrats of PPI and the German Pirate Party are pleased to be able to ride that wave to their advantage, as they feel that, the movement falling apart... Bundestagwahl and 2014 European Elections will be their last chance to grab a few practical salaries. Money, money, money. It is the pragmatic focus behind PPEU (at least until the grassroots populist mob took over the initiative and ruined it even for themselves), it was behind the PP-SE idea of banding together with the moribond European Democrats, and it guides the foundation of Young European Pirates.<br><br>Simplistic populism fails because its simple formula for equality is mechanical... if we can't make everyone equally smartest, then we will make everyone equally dumb, using mandatory lobotomy and forced intellectual ostracism if necessary. How forced, if need be... I've been able to experience in Brussels during the PPI GA of this year.<br><br>I'm sure Mr. Natural can tell you more about it, he happens to handle real sheep every day...<br><br>The bubblegum does not survive contact with political reality. Bubblegum is for Kindergarten :). Even PP-DE, both the populist grassroots and the ultrapragmatic board, have yet to learn this lesson.<br><br>Most pirate parties are "Bubblegum" at the moment, reason why it is so popular.<br><br>But politically counterproductive in very extremist ways.<br><br><br><br>Antonio.<br><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:24:37 +0200<br>From: jakobsheep@gmail.com<br>To: pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net<br>Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] I had this dream once...<br><br><br>
On Jun 30, 2013 10:04 AM, "Mozart Palmer" <<a href="mailto:mozart.palmer@pp-international.net">mozart.palmer@pp-international.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> I think a lot of respect is lost by existing parties precisely because they are not activists. They are complacent, believing competing for votes every n years is all that matters. I fully support the duality of activist and political organisation, and I think taking initiatives like this — or at the very least investigating their viability — is exactly what Pirate Parties should be doing. It's one thing to talk the talk, another to walk the walk :-)<br>
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I mistook "existing parties" for pirate parties.<br>
But that brings up the remarque : No that is not true per sé. There are ecological activists parties, radical left, anti-capitalists and not to forget, the extreem rightwing parties.<BR>
The pirate party is NOT an exclusive activist political party nor an exclusive peoples movement. Wishing, hoping, thinking or believing it to be different does not change this reality. So in the end we are still dealing with this 'perfect' pirate dogma.<BR>
I belong to the 'bitter' pirate party, I am dealing with politics and have to swallow a lot of this (shit) almost daily. I am not looking for a active bubblegum substitute because it 'feels' better or easier. But yes, getting that bitter out of my system once in a while with sweets is a good remedie not to 'shrink' as a human being.<BR>
There is a type of activism that forces 'the others' to react (the abbusive activism). And there is the examplairy activism that shows 'the others' how it is better done.<BR>
When I hear pirates say : No politics, only activism. I do not share that dream. For me activism is to anticipate / interact with daily life, nothing more nothing less.<br>
I am not a different person as an activist or as a politician (I am a pirate candidate for next elections).<BR>
I prefer bitter reality to bubblegum (house?) parties.<BR>
Anouk Neeteson<br>
member of national bureau of Parti Pirate France<br>
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