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Nordic splaining
Removed by modBehold the most unserious take. This person is a public figure, a wannabe politician in the pirate party here that takes no firm political stances on anything.
He is apparently the greatest socialism understander.
When my old school held mock elections way back when, I think I might've voted for the pirate party... Well, either them or the greens, I don't quite remember, but if nothing else I was strongly considering voting for the pirates.
I have in the years since come to find pirate parties considerably less endearing.
Yeah pretty much same. When I was still a radlib I considered voting for them at least once, the Greens I did vote for and will always regret that in hindsight.
I think it was the last election when I read their political program just to see if they have even one thing in it addressing the economy or challenging capitalism, they did not. Asked the guy who was running on Twitter why that is, got some wishywashy answer on how they think it is still best to just try and "regulate it better".
It also has a very libertarian vibe as a party.
I remember when they started the pirate parties (2006 in Sweden) and as a weird incredibly online guy I could spot the wrong kind of weird incredibly online guy and was never on board with their stuff.
Never voted for any party other than the left party. The greens seemed like unserious libs (vindicated there) and the succdems are just a strictly worse version of the left party in every way.
In short, thank God I'm no longer a teenager. It's a lot easier to say that capitalism works but just needs to be regulated better, when all the adults around you seem composed, you have most of your needs met, and you get a satisfactory amount of treats, compared to when you're actually placed in the context of needing to sell your labor power for real to have your needs met. And when that's your belief, that capitalism "works", it's a lot easier to just take party branding at face value, take a quiz or two, and quickly skim through some Wikipedia articles, and treat casting a ballot essentially like throwing ¥5 into the offering box at a Shinto shrine: bow, bow, clap, clap, "May climate change be solved and may intellectual property be abolished and probably some other stuff too."