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The Pirate Party looks set for a successful outing in the coming weekend's Icelandic elections.
A poll by local newspaper Morgunblaðið and the Icelandic Social Science Research Institute of the University of Iceland reports support for the Pirate Party is running at about 22.6 per cent, a point-and-a-half ahead of the ruling Independence Party and four points clear of the Left-Greens. That's impressive support, although the party's support has fallen a couple of points since March 2015.
Iceland uses s proportional representation system so the party's current level of support will likely translate into about 15 seats in the 63-member Althingi.
That won't be not enough for Píratar, the party's Icelandic name, to take government. It's also ruled out a coalition with the Independence Party.
But earlier this year Independence split and the recently-formed splinter group Viðreisn (tr. "Regeneration") is polling at 8.8 per cent and has ruled out joining a government with any of the current coalition parties. If the Pirates can align with Viðreisn and other like-minded parties it may therefore become part of a governing coalition and win some ministries.
Four years for a party founded by geeks to take over the government is not bad.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Thursday November 03 2016, @02:35AM
Nothing in the first two sections of your post I disagree with.
" No, man, he didn't; he *is* the elite"
Bull, fucking, shit
All of the other "elites" and all of the other spineless people who care nothing for America or what it stood or stands for (that includes you), are fleeing the country in record numbers. Ditching US Investments by selling them to China, moving money into offshore accounts, etc. Clinton herself moved 16 million into a bank in Yemen recently through JP Morgan Chase. Nobody knows why.
So, kindly notice that Trump is the only member of the "elite" who is doubling down on his belief in America, shelling out millions of his own dollars, enduring CONSTANT ridicule, slander, and utter HATRED from idiots like you for WHAT?!
Profit? He's losing money! (Which you, even now, grudgingly admit he is better-than-average at getting)
Popularity? He just had his Walk of Fame star smashed.
Peace and quiet? Look into how he's had his entire life slandered.
Why? To Make America Great Again because he LOVES this fucking country!
YOU are no better than the elite who say, "I'm going to take what I can, while I can, set fire to what's behind me, and get out." You are in no better mindset than those "Elite" who you claim to despise.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 03 2016, @03:44AM
Are you done throwing your little temper tantrum yet? Drumpf's doubling down because he doesn't know any other course of action; it's a mark of the pathological narcissist. Nothing of external reality ever enters this man's head. The fact that you're lionizing him like this is making me question your sanity.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Thursday November 03 2016, @03:44PM
"Little temper tantrum"
You are what you do, independent of current events. You are abandoning the country and its principles that enabled you to be.
"he doesn't know any other course of action; it's a mark of the pathological narcissist."
"Billionaire is rich, famous, owns a jet, and can do quite literally anything he wants...his ONLY OPTION, at 70 years old, is to sacrifice ALL of that and get millions of people to HATE him by touting unpopular opinions while running for President of the United States."
To be completely fair, I have read Bigfoot stories that are more logically sequenced than that.
You have absolutely no evidence behind any one of your Anti-Trump claims, and you are willfully voting for somebody who has endangered - quite literally - the entire world with her 2nd Cold-War starting, ISIS-funding/Refugee-crisis creating actions. You are voting for a person who has proven herself to be a truly deplorable human being (not just a greedy one) who is capable and very willing to threaten any victim - be they abused woman or violated child - again and again and AGAIN to save face, LIE about it when caught, and, in the face of undeniable evidence, you still choose to believe that she is not the greater narcissist. There clearly exists no evidence of any kind that can be shown to you to dissuade you from your opinion, and that is the definition of a religious belief. Pray to your Youtube Saint John Oliver, and pray hard, because Hillary Clinton is simply more evil than you are willing to comprehend.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 03 2016, @04:28PM
Is it NaNoWriMo already...?
Once more, Link: I am well aware of how fucking evil the Clinton dynasty is, and if someone assassinated the entire clan tomorrow, preferably with incendiary weaponry, I would not shed a single tear. We're fucked no matter what happens.
You've been taken in by the cult of personality, though: this race isn't about Clinton vs Trump so much as it is about the Senate and especially the Supreme Court. As much as I hate to do this, I am voting Clinton on the gamble that there are enough sane people on the D side that they can reign the worst of her excesses in.
A Trump presidency, on the other hand, would play out the same way it did the last time we had a certified retard (Dubya) in office: he's spend his presidency masturbating to his own reflection in the giant gilded mirrors he'd install in the Oval Office, as his handlers (think Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, that sort of people) take the reins from behind the scenes and complete their fascist takeover. Trump is a useful idiot, emphasis on idiot.
Do you get it now? Zoom out and look at the big picture.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Friday November 04 2016, @02:49PM
Check it out: Julian Assange speaks today from London.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ7lYRnF1F8 [youtube.com]
"We're fucked no matter what happens."
In one situation you go down fighting for your country, in the other, you run. As stated earlier, you are what you do, and you are choosing the latter. You do not care about America and never understood what it was created to be. If you did, your actions would prove it.
"the Senate and especially the Supreme Court."
Trump wants to pass a Constitutional Amendment to impose Congressional term limits. How on Earth you think that will be WORSE for the future of this country is beyond my wildest imagining. Not to mention anything about how salt-white-saintly he is in every aspect compared to Clinton in terms of corruption. There is no cult of personality, there is simply no contest (AGAIN, dealing EXCLUSIVELY with evidence and the real world, here) about who is the one that is less corrupt and more inclined to care about what happens to America.
"there are enough sane people on the D side that they can reign the worst of her excesses in."
Wow. You think that rewarding one of the most corrupt political figures in world history with the Presidency will destroy the ambitions of the corrupt in Congress? Or that it will do anything but Annihilate the hope that any deep-down honest Senators have left that the system is capable of changing? Why do you think she had the Superdelegate votes to kick Sanders out? You are - again, in the face of ALL evidence - supporting a known body of evil publicly, and hoping that same evil recuses itself.
"Trump is a useful idiot, emphasis on idiot."
Which is why he infuriated and stupefied every leading RNC shitbag during the debates for the candidacy, spit in their faces by talking shit about them publicly, cost them hundreds of millions of dollars, then made his hard-right constituency give a thundering round of applause for the sake of protecting the L-G-B-T-Q community at the RNC itself?
You seriously believe that the over 100 million dollars the RNC *wasted* backing Jeb Bush alone was all part of the plan? That Trump is not at the reigns? Zoom out and look at the big picture. Trump has gutted the RNC and has completely taken over. His supporters do NOT support the RNC establishment that tried to backstab him at every opportunity - they support *HIM* and not because of who he is, but because of what he has done.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 04 2016, @05:04PM
Okay, I give up. Paine was right; using reason with someone who has renounced its use is like giving medicine to a corpse. I love how you idiots think you'd actually survive the upheaval this would all cause. Temporarily-embarrassed elites, that's you, all right.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Friday November 04 2016, @11:11PM
Yep. Hillary Clinton is the sane choice, and Donald Trump is a madman. Got it.
https://archive.is/ehpoJ [archive.is]
That's a link about an ongoing NYPD Investigation of emails seized directly from Huma Abedin's laptop, under a warrant, that show the Clintons visiting a pedophilic sex-slave island multiple times. This is not conspiracy. Again, this is that "evidence" thing that you hate so much. Let me guess, "B-but DRUMPF called Rosie O Donnell fat!!! He's the crazy one, not the objectively proven pedophilic ISIS-supporting murderers."
Who would you rather watch your niece or nephew? A person you disagree with, or a pedophilic murderer?
I may be an idiot, but you are a truly disgusting coward. I can understand why people would vote for Clinton, the people who don't know who Hillary actually is, but for you, there is absolutely no excuse.