Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party takeover

Re:Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party tak... by pvg on Monday October 24, 2016 @02:13PM (#12781282)

I don't think a purely legal view is a sensible way to look at this. In much of Europe, abortion is not a major political issue that motivates the voting patterns of a significant chunk of the electorate and hasn't been for a long time. In that sense, Europe is more progressive on women's reproductive rights.

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Re:Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party tak... by tedunangst on Monday October 24, 2016 @02:36PM (#12781515)

That's a strange way to present the argument. In the early 1800s the electorate of the US South was unified in support of slavery. Not a motivating political issue. I would not say the south was particularly progressive on the issue of slavery.

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Re:Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party tak... by pvg on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:01PM (#12782319)

You're reading what I wrote as some sort of weird 'therefore, Socrates was a cat' syllogism. Was the point I was trying to make unclear? Because I don't see how your analogy is at all related or even much of an analogy.

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Re:Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party tak... by harryh on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:08PM (#12782922)

FWIW my reading of your comment was the same as tedunangst's. Perhaps you meant something different from what you wrote?

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Re:Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party tak... by tedunangst on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:26PM (#12782552)

I don't see how "people don't care" -> "they are progressive". The logic of that escapes me.

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