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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    146 months ago

    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

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      36 months ago

      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.

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        66 months ago

        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

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          26 months ago

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