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Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats (stackdiary.com)

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Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It absolutely does though. You can’t elect worker ownership of the means of production but you sure can elect anything from fascists to social democrats. I for one don’t want fascists to control my government

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

But media controls people

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If progressive policies were ever put into place by an elected body, it was always merely a by-product of already established social consensus formed by bottom-up politics.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I fully agree. But people get better things. Not voting means they don’t. Not voting means the people who want worse things get what they want

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

With electoralism, people get complacent with watered down reforms and become politically alienated.