How Powerful Is Iceland's Pirate Party?
How Powerful Is Iceland's Pirate Party?
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A party founded by activists and hackers with a progressive agenda is on course to win in Iceland’s elections. So what is the Pirate Party?
Learn More:
Qz: Iceland’s Pirate Party looks likely to take the country’s election next weekend
http://qz.com/817784/icelands-pirate-party-looks-likely-to-take-the-countrys-general-election-on-oct-29/
Pirate Parties International: https://pp-international.net/
Vice: The Pirate Party’s ‘Poetician’ Plans to Make Iceland a Data Haven http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-pirate-partys-poetician-plans-to-make-iceland-a-data-haven
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There are no, and has never been any Pirate Party members in the Swedish Parliament. That is just simply a false fact. But they did get seats in the EU parliamentary elections! 🙂
Doing what James Flint never could
we need to spread these videos people need to ne informed
Someone, I forget who it was, commented that the USA was never meant to be a democracy, but instead a constitutional republic. I am sick and tired of needing to rebuke this most dangerous rhetoric, but I feel compelled to take a stand against democracy crushing propaganda when and where I possibly can. So for the love of democracy and the freedom that only democracy can make possible, allow me the displeasure of once again, debunking this falsehood.
A constitutional republic, and or, a representative republic, when in reference to the form of government established in the USA, was established as a type, or form of, democracy. The Bill of rights, amended to the US constitution was meant to be a means of protecting individual rights, from both government transgressions, and the violations of individual rights, that can, and does sometimes, result from the practice of democracy.
If there is doubt in your mind as to whether or not the US was meant to be a democracy, then please consider the accuracy and truthfulness of these statements; ”Government by the constitution for the constitution ‘. ”We the framers of the constitution’. Now, if you recognize what is wrong with these statements, and take into consideration the fact that the term ”demos” is a Greek word for, ” People” or ‘ ‘the people” and the fact, the term democracy is an English expansion of that term, then it should not be so difficult to arrive at the correct conclusion, that the USA was in fact, meant to be a democracy, or a democratic nation, since at least the time of its founding.
GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, as opposed to government by the constitution, for the constitution, emphatically means the US was meant to be a democracy !
I could get behind them with the exception of direct democracy.
how powerful is romania (probly pretty weak)
Wow there’s a pirate party! Sign me up to vote!!
Reform copyright! Shrink it to 5-20 years!
Yeah my country is gonna end up as pirates……
انا اتكلام في اسلندةي 我只道义是诶里peacepazpaz
Man I thought this was going to be a crazy right wing party.
Funny to know i live in iceland and i am excited for that party to gain control of icelands goverment
Probably the closest thing to a libertarian party in Iceland. Guess I’d support it.
The Swedish Pirate Party has never won seats in the Swedish Parliament, only in the EU Parliament.
ARRRRR VOTE YE PIRATE PARTY MATES!!!
Pirate party to end copyright monopolies
How powerful is ALGERIA?!!!
I accidentally joined the Pirate Party in America, I don’t remember how, wikipedia’d them and I’m proud i accidentally chose them, I hope they spread to america one day.
How powerful is Nauru? 🙂
How powerful is my urge to Fuck?
Thats a win for Cypherpunks!
very few people will know what im talkin about
100% pirate party 2100
Can you guys cover the strength of Sweden because of the current situation in the Baltics and the Middle East?
When I heard that pirate parties exist in multiple countries I thought that international parties which not only share core policy aims but also truly operate as one may be a part of politics in the future. I’m talking about decades from now, because there isn’t a constitutional basis for this I know of anywhere yet. For now at least the thought is interesting, as something like that could spark international cooperation on a whole new level.
Pirate party sounds awesome
Lets do the same in The Netherlands!!!
I think you need make a video of How Powerful Is Trinidad and Tobago, as you not yet done a Caribbean Country and it would be great, if you done one for us please. Thank you 🙂
Which country is the Pirate Party most likely to win?
ARRgentina!
I suppose these guys would also be opposed to all of the rampant censorship and crackdown of "fake news" that goes on on social media nowadays. I’m a libertarian and I’d definitely vote for these guys if that’s the case.
So pretty much everything the democratic party isnt?
can you do a video of how powerful is Algeria
Avast motherfuckers!
I hope they win.
Who were the Vikings and why were the Vikings so successful? ((1st petition))
The pirate party sounds good to me.
I love the pirate party, but I’m not entirely in agreement with direct democracy. I like it in principal, but a true democracy can easily end up in a tyranny of the majority, especially in an exceptionally diverse country. I have no doubt it could work in smaller countries, but I’m not entirely sure it would work in a country the size of the US. That’s also how I feel about anarchism. I’d love to see it, but I doubt it can work on an enormous scale.
0:58 actually untrue, in no national election whatsoever has the Swedish pirate party won any seat out of the 349 seats in the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag). They own 1 seat in the European elections, adjusted for the number of seats Sweden has in the European Parliament, they received 2 seats out of 20. But they have never had seat in the Swedish Parliament.
How powerful is Serbia?
No Vikings?
ThePirateBay.org
Policy making based on data instead of political ideology, what year is it 2100? I have wanted this for years, I had no idea it already existed.
Están bastante basados
i though tis video should be how powerful they are the party!
NEEEEEEEEERDS
I thought Iceland got own version of Somalian Pirate 🙁
how powerful is iceland i know it has no army lol😂
3:08 "It truly is 2016" What precisely is this supposed to mean?
Pirate party has everything I want.
Freedom of Speech/religion/privacy/press.
Open Society no copyright.
Anti globlism.
Direct pure democracy.
J
Yang is a pirate… nerd power. vote YANG 2020