A Tumblr revolution!
Benefits decided that this month, Quel needed €50 extra! For no reason. I'm not ungrateful or anything, but I don't need €936 a month. My health care's only €30 a month and my meds are €150 a year. What the actual fuck. .__.
The following just happened;
I go downstairs and low and behold, the new list of political parties is in the kitchen. To humour myself, I decide to look through it. I see the usual parties, scan for a bit more, and blink as I notice "Pirate Party". I look to my mother.
Me: There's a Pirate Party. Mother: -looks at me like I'm shitting her- Me: No, really. Look. -gives list- Mother: ...Wut? ._. Me: Lol. People are going fucking mental this day and age with the names, aren't they? Dafuq, need to check out their policies, it sounds too promising.
So I run upstairs to my room, to check out what the policies of this "Pirate Party" would be.
"Pirate Party is a label adopted by political parties in different countries. Pirate Parties support civil rights, direct democracy and participation, reform of copyrightand patent law, free sharing of knowledge (Open Content), data privacy, transparency, freedom of information, free education, universal healthcare and a clear separation between church and state. They advocate network neutrality and universal, unrestricted access to the Internet as indispensable conditions to some of this," Wikipedia says.
Upon my complete, utter, fucking surprise, this Pirate Party I initially had a chuckle over, has policies that represent mine to a practical fucking T. And I came to a shocking realisation, wide-eyed and gaping, that I actually have to and am going to vote for this party, when the election comes.
What the actual fuck? I'm becoming a Pirate, it seems.