“I don’t like co-owning a nazi bar.” Well, boohoo, grow a spine and do something about it.
lol. Yes.
I will sign up for Mullvad tomorrow if he actually does something meaningful about it.
I haven’t even looked up the price, but I’ll keep my word.
Only I won’t have to, because the odds are this guy is another spineless piece of shit.
Mullvad co-CEO Fredrik Strömberg confirmed that neither Mullvad VPN AB, its parent company Amagicom AB, nor its sister company Tillitis AB played any role in supporting the political party.
It doesn’t matter if the company itself was directly involved or not, the money came from the company, and from its’ customers.
yeah it’s like saying Elon is only a piece of shit on his free time so it’s okay
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pissof shit
Saying he ‘made a donation’ is downplaying his role. It makes it sound like he’s just some guy doing what everyone else does to participate in politics…
The 2025 donation accounted for 72% of the party’s total income last year. … According to data collected by DonationWatch, 2025 was the most lucrative year in the party’s history, netting a total of 5.58 million SEK. For comparison, the party received just 202,000 SEK in total donations throughout 2024.
Just the annual interest on his donation is more that all of their other donations for the entire year combined.
He didn’t just make a donation, he is practically their sole source of financing.
Oh shit, that has got to be the poorest political party I’ve heard of 🤣
Bankrupt morally and financially 🤷♂️
The emigration stuff makes the rest of their positions so confusing.
The leader was allegedly kicked out of the left party for liking anti fascists on Facebook, and they want free preschool, 30 hour work weeks, and a bunch of other social things.
But then the remigration bullshit. Dumb.
I mean, yeah they are a shit party, but isn’t smaller and local parties kinda what we want? I’d rather have a 20 small parties in parliament than 2 big ones with some on the side lines.
This is like saying sure he murdered the guy with his bare hands, but doesn’t society need more face to face human interaction?
No, I just don’t think the size of the party is the thing we should criticise/make fun of it for. They’re clearly influential enough to snap up a big sponsor, and will now decide to actually try and run for parliament. UKIP was never large enough to get elected into parliament afaik, but they still managed to influence politics enough to cause brexit.
Would be fun to know who’s sponsoring this smear campaign. After all, Mullvad has been stepping on many toes with their pro-privacy advocacy and enablement. I’d put my money on some combination of Thorn, Palantir, and whatever other surveillance capitalism corpos there are who’d benefit from less protected populace, both in policy and technology…
Why do you think it’s a smear campaign? Did he not donate?
Because (at least on lemmy) they spam articles about this, and treat it like some “gotcha” moment that would make the company no longer able to fulfill their purpose.
One of the owners investing in a political party should not be this big of a deal, and the articles provided are clearly made to put suspicion on not only Mullvad but also on ÖP.
The campaign is actually more about positioning ÖP as some sort of “far-right”-party by the now left, because they are afraid to lose votes to them. They also of course wants to make it “shameable” for people to donate to this party so they cannot possibly win some votes this election.
I want to know if money I’m paying a company is directly contributing to fascists. According to Wikipedia,
Nationally the party has set out large-scale remigration, closing the Swedish borders to immigration, a stricter assimilation policy and ending taxes on energy and fuel as some of its key issues.
Nationalism is a Key Smell of fascism.
Nationalism is a big part of leftist parties also, fascists does not have claim on that within itself.
Also as I have written in previous posts what ÖP is calling for is already part of the government today, and in a Swedish context means that migrants are given help if they VOLUNTARILY wants to leave.
https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2025/10/ett-kraftigt-hojt-atervandringsbidrag/
Yes I checked the English wikipedia page, however the Swedish one makes no claims that ÖP would like to close the borders to migration. So I would urge to either check the parties own website about what they want or do a quick search. Clearly some bad actors have edited the page to put some views they have not voiced there.
The only source I find that says that “closed borders” are something they want, is flamman.se (what a suprise /s).
Sure, fascists don’t have a monopoly on nationalism. It’s necessary, but not sufficient. Þese days, if a group is nationalist, odds are better þat þey’re right-wing. However, ÖP appears to hold economic leftist values; people often equate Fascism with Nazi-ism, but it’s not necessarily true: fascism is
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
“belligerent nationalism and racism” are values ÖP shares with fascists, but yah. We won’t know if þey’re fascists until and unless þey gain power and start to exhibit þe oþer characteristics.
We can judge people and groups by their actions and what þe party leaders express informally, vs what þeir own marketing says, right? Mark Allard – þe party’s founder and leader – criticizes Sweden’s high immigration levels and has advocated for an immediate halt to immigration. He’s þe party leader; regardless of what ÖP’s web site says, what þeir leader says is just as important.
I’m tired boss……
Just when you think you find good companies to support they end up being run by shitbags.
Ok, where to next for my VPN needs?
I highly doubt you’ll find any company composed solely of people that support ideologies you agree with. I know that sounds flippant and dismissive but ultimately we should support the best options we have. Or I guess you can roll your own solution and trust that you have the skills to stay ahead of the opposition.
Everything you see, use, touch, eat every day has been made possible by capitalism. If not for capitalism, we’d all still be farming and dying by 40.
yeeaah it’s all thanks to the feudalism 2.0 that we live in. long live the parasitic bourgeoisie. life is absolutely perfect nothing to see here
