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 🤷♂️
“I don’t like co-owning a nazi bar.” Well, boohoo, grow a spine and do something about it.
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.
I guess there is a difference between the founder being a shit head and one of the rank and file being a shit head. Would be nice if just a few of the CEO class weren’t psychopaths.
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.
We’d be dying ethically, though! I’m kidding. Did you not know this place is an extreme-left echo chamber?
I know it is. I’ll still interact with it and say my opinion. Don’t really care about the down votes.
not really extreme left tbh, thats .ml hexbear and grad.
I don’t know what those are - I just waded into Lemmy on a very large instance but I constantly see large numbers of people who proceed as if we’re all in agreement that capitalism is a proven evil and should definitely be put behind us in favor of a Marxist economy. This is what I consider extreme left. Now is it the uttermost tip of extreme? Surely not. But literal communism is not moderate left, or center left, it is far left. We could probably argue over the semantics of this for a long time.
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
This is basically a list of things that are wrong with the U.S. or problems in the world.
I don’t understand how this proves that capitalism is bad. If the world still hasn’t solved all its problems, then capitalism is inherently bad?
By all metrics, the world is much much better now than it was 100 years ago. And it’s mostly thanks to market economy.
All countries that have tried something different have had to resort to some flavour of capitalism in order to have any meaningful development.
Also, nobody said our economic system in its current form it’s perfect.
fucking lol
Well that comment wins my Billy Madison comment of the day.
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
edit:
pissof shitI’m not taking side here, but to be fair, Elon Musk is a shitty person doing shitty things both professionally and private. Mullvad VPN is at least only doing good things!
With that said. I have stopped using Mullvad VPN for now. We’ll see how this all plays out.
Mullvad VPN is popularizing crypto
They are? How?
They’re offering discounts for paying with monero
because the buyer pays transaction fees and there is no risk of chargeback so their costs are inherently lower if you pay that way?
Almost nobody else does that. They just want people to use crypto, because they’re closedness obsessed criminals.
Huh, was wondering why I was taking my sweet time moving away from Windscribe to see if the grass was as green as they say
Maybe you agree with windscribe, maybe you just ignore the reality.
Agree with windscribe regarding what?
“I like this burger made by fascists. I’m going to keep eating this burger, I don’t care where it came from or where my money buying the burger goes to.”
So many comments here sound like this, geez. Same people saying “we can be friends, can’t we, even if our politics differ?” Morality and respecting humans isn’t politics. And no. We can’t.
Also, yes, enforcing racial and national purity (remigration) is, in fact, fascist ideology. Get over it. It’s not extreme, it’s calling a spade a spade. https://lemmy.zip/comment/27359847
Also it’s a damn VPN. Pick another one. It’s not even like they can use the excuse that it’s the best in the field (still not an excuse but loads better than, I just “like” it)
Racist co-founder. Let’s just start calling a spade a spade. He’s a racist.
ffs - first Proton, now this.
I’ve never liked the idea that I have to trust my VPN, and this news raises a pretty significant trust issue. Makes me think I’ve been approaching this from the wrong angle.
Anyone have experience with the TOR daemon?
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I’m out of the loop. What happened with proton?
Public statements of support from its CEO for a regime actively weaponizing technology to build a mass-surveillance state.
Removing its no logging policy after being compelled by court order to log and disclose a user’s IP and browser fingerprint.
Personally, I gave up on Proton after they amended their TOS to include a mandatory arbitration clause, including a ban on class action lawsuits. IMO only the dirtiest of corporations rely on mandatory arbitration clauses. Without the spectre of a class action lawsuit, if a VPN were to get caught breaking its promises to its users, the only real damage the company would likely suffer would be reputational. These are for-profit corporations. The only way we can hold them accountable is to put their profits at risk.
edit: looks like @oce beat me to it
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.
THe party leader has expressed these views FORMALLY as well. And no it is not racist to want to throw out non-citizens that do crime.
I’m not at the point where this outweighs the reasons I picked mullvad yet. And the other cofounder’s statement does at least give me hope that it might work itself out in a way I can accept before my current term is finished.
That being said, I’m not sure I can give money to the company when someone is profiting from that money and spending part of it on a political organization that expressly espouses a stance I believe to be harmful and dangerous. And it isn’t like you can pirate a VPN, so it differs significantly from when actors or musicians do stupid shit.
That being said, I also don’t think that using mullvad would be something other people would be obligated to avoid just because the CEO donated to a small and shitty political party. By itself, it isn’t something so bad that it’s possible to point to a customer and do more than inform them of the donation and maybe give them links to see for themselves that it’s a shitty party. Or, at least that it’s a party with some really shitty platforms.
But the guy needs to show a major shift in how he donates before I’ll renew.
Just a rich person trying to get proto fascist powers. Yeah you wait a bit, but I won’t and I hope it’s the end of his company and career.
Good company though, very rare.
It’s no longer good if the money made from said company are used this way. It was good until last week or so.
You can not like it and you can run away from mullvad that’s a fine thing to be motivated to do hut what the other cofounder said is true. We don’t win by being tribal and team based. We when by tolerating and coexisting. I don’t know how this “Nazi” had harmed people but giving money to a political party is only a part of the story. If no one cares to hear the other side you are just perpetuating the same hate.
Never heard of the tolerance paradox have you?
The way to resolve the tolerance paradox is to not tolerate intolerance.
“Donating money to” and “bankrolling the entire party, 10x-ing their entire funding in 2024 alone” are different things.
There are SO many people here who would happily dine with actual fascists just because they “make a good product.” Completely ignoring what their funds that support them go to and lead to direct harm.
And if you think I’m hyperbolic, please, tell me how this is an incorrect line of thinking: https://lemmy.zip/comment/27359847
Do you people actually know anything about this party or are you just getting your panties in a twist over a nothingburger?
I could say that any party in the Swedish government is controversial, does that mean you are going to boycott everything Swedish now?
i do.
Party is run partly by an ex narc cop that got
firedbought out for being a far-right assacab
Also there was an article written by a seemingly reputable outlet, so yeah I’ll choose to believe them. And there’s also the fact that the CEO denied nothing. You would think he would clarify the party’s stance once the backlash started coming, if everyone were wrong.
Well you should not believe everything you read in articles. Even reputable outlets will be wrong when they write about something outside of their area of expertise. I think most people in here will just read the headline and some comments saying “far-right!” and believe that is true. Go to the Wikipedia pages for the Örebro Party and read them. I’ll link both the Swedish and English pages for you so you can compare them. I’ll also link to their own website, it is only in Swedish so you’ll have to translate it yourself. But you’ll see that nothing is out of the ordinary and the whole thing is blown out of proportions.
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebropartiet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party
https://orebropartiet.se/large-scale remigration
Thanks, didn’t need to read any further (still did)
Would you like to elaborate? There’s is nothing wrong with not liking it, but that does not put the party into some far-right category that people seem to be making up.
You think advocating for large-scale forced displacement of non-white citizens does not put the party into a far-right category? I feel like you’re the one who’d need to elaborate.
I want to make the point that it doesn’t have anything to do with skin color, that is a made up thing by people who don’t like it. Coming to Sweden and getting to stay is not a human right. That applies to everybody no matter where you’re from. So no, I do not think wanting people to remigrate makes the party far-right.
Far-right doesn’t mean anything these days, it’s just something people default to saying when they’re not really interested in debating political views(God forbid you have a slightly different view).
Having a difference of opinion is like “no Margaret, I’m glad you enjoy buttercream frosting but I’m going to stick with this apple pie.” That’s a difference of opinion.
“Non-whites are subhuman and don’t belong in the same country as me” is not a difference of opinion, Internet Explorer.
And nobody has said that, you’re just making stuff up. So just because you disagree, are you not going to have an honest discussion?
Örebropartiet espouses assimilation, not integration. They push for remigration of people who don’t assimilate.
That’s worked out wonderfully under our current Tidelagsregering, no? We’re sending home children who we’ve raised, educated, and given jobs, to countries they’ve never been to, because their parents fucked up, be that by accident or on purpose. Sins of the father, and all that.
I’m not disagreeing with tjänstemannaansvar, or reduced salaries for politicians, or free dental care. Those are all low-hanging fruit though, obvious to any working class person. The stickler is the extremely racist rhetoric that comes with it.
That isn’t a difference of opinion, it’s plain bigotry and dehumanisation.
There is nothing wrong with wanting people to assimilate or get sent back. Integration does not work with certain cultures which we have seen for the last 20 years. If you come to Sweden you are a guest and you should behave like one, right? Then if you do intend to stay you should be supportive of our values and our way of life. There is also no denying that certain people in office hold plain racist views and we have to work hard on kicking those people out of any institutions we have.
So a difference of opinion in this case is what to do with people who come here that don’t contribute to society, don’t follow our societal norms, and break our laws. It doesn’t have anything to do with race.What I do agree with is how they have really messed up with some cases in regards to people growing up in Sweden and then getting sent to a country they have never been in, but that is on the people in the government for not doing their job correctly. Remigration does not have to mean going all-in or doing nothing, there is a nice middle ground where you can do things on a case-by-case basis.
I’m not Swedish. I’m not in a country nearby whose effected by them. Their politics has nothing to do with me. I don’t know the culture or issues there.