I just wished they were more relevant in german politics.

It's the typical dilemma. Vote for a party you know won't get enough votes to do something or vote for the least bad of the established parties.

Yeah ... No.

I'm generally not a fan of party politics (though I realize you often have to bite the bullet on voting). But the pirate party here (Germany) is a really problematic bunch some of them thinking freedom means free markets some of them thinking free speech means they should be able to say hateful Nazi shit ... Really not a party I want to vote for, even in a pinch.

free speech

In the context of an intense commitment to an open internet I’d honestly need to know a bit more about what this means in my own country’s pirate party. “Free speech” is often just a disingenuous shield when bigots want to be be bigots without social consequences.

They lack a bit on all other agendas, like education, healthcare etc

I'm the US those are just libertarians but with piracy. No thanks.

I've been voting pirate party for years now, though thankfully I am in a country with ranked choice / preference voting so I'm not damaging democracy by voting for a third party, in fact I believe I'm actively helping democracy by using the tools given to me.

In Australia they are now part of the Fusion Party, which combines pro-science, pro-choice, pro-environment and secular minor parties.

Sadly the one in my country no longer exists 😞

I love piracy like I love electricity - it makes my life easier, and I will extoll the virtues when asked. It doesn't rise to a core political belief for me, though.

This Green Party rebrand isn’t entirely unexpected.

https://social.globalpirates.net/@masspirates

As Extra in Exile once said:

"Finally, a party for us YouTubers"

Go to this video at the 5:25 mark if you don't believe me.

Aaron would be disappointed in that CSS, holy hell

Yeah I like democracy better tho