Posted on 05/08/2012 8:41:42 AM PDT by mamelukesabre
from the momentum dept
It really appears that The Pirate Party is no fluke in Germany. After winning 9% of the vote in the Berlin parliament elections, and then 7.4% in Saarland, the party has now received 8.2% of the vote in Schleswig-Holstein. These are each local "state" elections, and there's another big one next week, in Northrhine-Westphalia, where they're apparently polling in a similar range. It seems clear that The Pirate Party is certainly surpassing the German Green Party as the preeminent 3rd party -- and it seems to be having an impact. As we noted, the Greens have tried to co-opt much of the Pirate Party's agenda as their own, and Germany's major political parties have started to show a much more reasoned approach to copyright as well.
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They like to ARRRRGue with their opponents.
“Seig Arrrrrrr!”
Is Sept. 19th their national holiday?... arrrrhg. :-)
When do we get our ration of rum?
HOL
(Harr out loud)
aye matey, a ration o’rum it’ll be for me, or curtains it’ll be for thee!
Napster shall be avenged!
YOL: “Yarrr Out Loud”
Hmmm... I wonder if they’ll get any good press at all? The candidates will necessarily have an ARR after their names
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