Take a quick look at one while you still can.
This is “liquid democrazy” in action, I guess.
“We’re too cowardly.”
Tag Archives: The Pirate Party
The Amazing Disappearing Political Party
Who says that in-fighting and a complete absence of credibility, character, policy, tactics or strategy can’t get you anywhere? It got Germany’s Pirate Party to nowhere fast. So you better take one quick look at them while you still can.
They’re down to five percent in the polls at the moment, and sinking fast. But let’s move on now and just try to remember them for all the good things they accomplished while they were still here among the living (hell if I know, I thought you might have).
Die Piraten liegen einer neuen Umfrage zufolge nur noch bei fünf Prozent und müssen damit um den Einzug in den Bundestag bangen.
Going, Going…
Pirates!
This is what happens when you fail to deliver (even when nobody ever really knew what you were supposed to deliver in the first place). Hey, what goes around comes around. Or was it what comes around goes away? I, for one, thought they’d never be von gestern (yesterday’s news).
“Since the Pirates have been around, the optical decorum has lapsed, and it’s undignified.”
Pirates Shocked That Pirates Won’t Pay
Is this any way for a marauding mob of pilfering plunderers and freeloading freebooters to behave?
Worried about financial bottlenecks during upcoming election campaigns, Pirate party boss Bernd Schlömer has threatened to admonish dilinquent party members. Many (42 percent) have failed to pay their annual membership fee of 48 euros.
Nach Angaben von Schlömer haben rund 42 Prozent der mehr als 33.000 Mitglieder ihren Jahresbeitrag von 48 Euro noch nicht bezahlt.
The Party Is Already Over?
For the Pirate Party in Germany, I mean?
Sheesh. Even I thought it would take them longer than this to roll over and die. But the latest Emnid poll shows that their popularity (or lack of it?) has rapidly dropped to the lowest level since March (8 percent compared to their all-time high of 12 percent).
But hey, what can you expect from a party with an ex-boss who advises voters not to vote for them anymore.
Auf die Frage „Sollen wir die Piraten wählen?“ würde er inzwischen mit „Nö, lassen Sie es lieber bleiben“ antworten. Er sei von der Bilanz der Fraktion „immens enttäuscht.“
Something Entertaining Accidentally Happened On German TV Last Night
Ex-Pirate Girl Treated Like Sex Object By Pirate Boys For Some Reason
She’s tired. She’s tired of being admired.
Just after walking the German Pirate Party plank due to exhaustion, ex-Pirate political manager Marina Weisband dropped the boom on her mobbing male marauders by outing them as being just as chauvanistic and sexist as male types everywhere else are, political or otherwise. Why who would have thought that? You sweet little…
Sie habe sich nie als “Star der Piraten” gesehen, sondern als “von den Medien gehypte Person.”
The Scum Also Rises
I’m really starting to like these Pirate guys, honest.
I mean, everybody knows that it’s all a big elaborate practical joke anyway, so why not just calm down, folks, and kick back and enjoy their fifteen minute ride of fame in vollen Zügen (to the fullest)?
One of the latest Pirate humdinger zingers (there have been so many these days that I’ve lost count) is the Berlin state parliament floor leader’s comparison of his party to another German party that turned out to be a bit less of a joke: “The rise of the Pirate Party is as fast as that of the NSDAP between 1928 and 1933.” Just in case you didn’t know, the NSDAP was the Nazi party.
No politician in Germany, not even the geekiest of geeks, can say something like that by accident. So again: It was a joke. It had to have been. It really was a joke. A Pirate joke. Wasn’t it?
The remark was an outrageous transgression that can’t be excused by the party’s lack of experience.
Being A Pirate Sucks
I got your “aye me buckos” for you right here. Even the best-run running joke gets old after a while (or in this case the worst-run).
It turns out that too much transparancy leads to too much transparancy after all. That is: Finally being able to see that if you want to accomplish something in life (or even in politics, yuk), you’re going to have to work really, really, really hard for it.
Top pirate wench Marina Weisband quit first due to “health reasons” (she was clearly sick and tired of all this adolescent nonsense). Swashbuckling chairman of the Berlin pirate pack himself Gerhard Anger quit not long after that due to “the immense pressure” of having to actually get up every morning to go to work.
Like, life in the Internet was never like this. You can stick this reality bite crap back up to where the sun don’t shine, dude. A party “in tune with the Berlin vibe” is still a party. And every party has to come to an end sometime.
„Ich ertrage diese emotionale Belastung nicht.”
Wayne’s World
Kennst Du Wayne? Wayne es interessiert?
Is anybody here really supposed to care that the Pirate Party, “a party in tune with the Berlin vibe” (and a cheap if not even flakier immitation of the Swedish original) attracted enough votes to win its first ever seats in the Berlin state parliament yesterday?
Nothing aginst Internet freedom activist freaks or anything, I just don’t want to have to deal with them in the non-virtual world like this.
Of course the real news is that the FDP (a real live party from Planet Earth) got tossed out. Hey, Scheiße happens.
And here you thought California was the land of nuts, flakes and fruits.
“Wir werden als erstes auf die Laternen klettern und unsere Plakate wieder runterholen.”
Observing Hermann 