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The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party (mastodon.social)

submitted 23 hours ago by e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.

~ https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

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[–] freeman@feddit.org 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

its wild, but not your typical neonazi party read my comment https://feddit.org/comment/13683001

[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Okay, I suppose nuance is in order here so let's add some. Örebro partiet used to be hardline leftwing extremist and antifascist, but they explicitly moved away from their political roots distancing themselves from their old ideological convictions under the new party leader.

They have since started explicitly supporting populist and nationalist positions on migration and integration that attract the same kind of latent racist voter base that SD (the much more directly neo Nazi party) rode to fame and election victory.

If I had to classify their overall political identity they're reminiscent of the NSDAP leading up to their first election victory. They're in favour of authoritarian rule with both right- and left-wing populist goals such as improved public healthcare and forced remigration or forced assimilation of Muslim immigrants.

Overall your personal mileage may vary, but I'm not okay with my money indirectly supporting a political party that's contributing to the overall decline of civil discourse and feeding into the hated of migrants and the "us vs them" mindset that's poisoning society.

[Edit] @ambitiousslab@feddit.uk gave a great breakdown of their migration stance earlier in the thread. I'm just going to say that I'm not okay with ethnic cleansing and leave it at that.