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(original article in Swedish that reported this)

Posting this because I hadn't heard about it before and I'm probably not the only Mullvad user here, so might as well.

I'm not Swedish, but going off NATOpedia, it seems like the party is basically reinventing fascism from first principles:

The party claims to stand for a "class-conscious populism" which according to party leader Markus Allard takes inspiration from marxist ideology and unites the "productive" classes of society against the "Transferiat", with the "Transferiat" being a term coined by Allard to describe the classes of society that lives off transfers that are a net negative for society such as those who, despite having an ability to work, live off social welfare benefits, as well as those who work "made-up services"[...]

The party differs from modern day left-wing parties by seeing the working class as co-dependent with people working in enterprise and business and instead sees the classes that "live off transfers", as specified, as a large economic net-negative and an obstacle for a functional society.

visible-disgust Their ideology is nonsense fake-marxist revisionism to redirect anger at capitalism and turn it against immigrants and people who need social welfare (though they do back some generally left oriented social policies, their main thing appears to be racism)

Even if you're comfortable with funding this, it still begs the question of just how trustworthy Mullvad actually is.

I guess this still beats any of the dozens of Israeli VPNs that definitely spy on you, but it's not great emilie-shrug

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[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 52 points 4 days ago (2 children)

leader Markus Allard takes inspiration from marxist ideology and unites the "productive" classes of society against the "Transferiat", with the "Transferiat" being a term coined by Allard to describe the classes of society that lives off transfers that are a net negative for society such as those who, despite having an ability to work, live off social welfare benefits, as well as those who work "made-up services"

Marxist ideology my ass, that's straight up national socialism.

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

..and the more terms for groups of people that you suffix with 'eriat', the more communist it is

[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

humanity has been divided into two great camps: the goonsoisie and celibatariat

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

the moderiat are holding us back

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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 58 points 4 days ago

He also criticised the Sweden Democrats for, according to him, allowing too many immigrants into the country

When the Nazi party isn't Nazi enough for you what-the-hell

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 28 points 4 days ago

The party differs from modern day left-wing parties by seeing the working class as co-dependent with people working in enterprise and business and instead sees the classes that "live off transfers", as specified, as a large economic net-negative and an obstacle for a functional society.

Ah it’s libertarian “producerism” with a faux left veil

[–] MoreLikeHazBeen@hexbear.net 38 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

goddamn it what VPN am I supposed to use now

edit: stop upbearing me and make a suggestion, I'm serious.

[–] Ditti@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 4 days ago

I've been using AirVPN for a long time and I'm quite happy with their service.

[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago
[–] Soot@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This really does suck. In all honesty, I don't feel safe using a VPN that doesn't accept cash as a payment method. Everything digital is too traceable, crypto included. Far as I'm aware no other VPN provider accepts it.

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[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 39 points 4 days ago

Rip :/ i was recommending mullvad to a few people at work

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 29 points 4 days ago

Back in the 90s neonazis invested like 10k on the internet, and it shows every damn day. I wonder what nonsense other vpns have that hasn't yet been brought up to light.

[–] LittleFellaNamedBoof@hexbear.net 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I am moving more and more towards the thought that I should not be using the internet anymore. Atleast outside of mandatory things like for work and paying bills.

[–] LittleFellaNamedBoof@hexbear.net 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I did look into this a bit. So it was one of the co-founders that donated. He gave them 500k USD which as 72% of their budget for that year. He said he liked their forced deportation policies (they want to deport even citizens if they don't have "ties to sweden") The other co-founder said they "didn't like that he made the donation", and the company did try to distance themselves from it, but being that it's 1 of the 2 co-founders who still own the company 50/50 that doesn't matter much imo.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

despite having an ability to work, live off social welfare benefits, as well as those who work "made-up services"[...]

To some extent WHO’S FAULT IS THAT?!? The porks don’t want to make jobs, so of course people will be on benefits. The least the porks can do is compensate those they deem as “useless” for discarding them.

The party differs from modern day left-wing parties by seeing the working class as co-dependent with people working in enterprise and business and instead sees the classes that "live off transfers", as specified, as a large economic net-negative and an obstacle for a functional society.

Every FUCKING time. Every slightest difference from the norm they treat as a crime punishable by death, but porky gorging himself? “D’awww shucks poors, can’t we all sing kumbayah together?”

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

rebro party...

hexbear lore is getting weird

[–] bl4ckp1xx13@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

God fucking dammit - well my account still has 111 days on it, I'll reconsider when that time gets closer.

That's a real shame, Mullvad is great service-wise...

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

write yourself a reminder so you don't forget this horror in the endless churn of horrors

[–] grendahlgrendahlgen@hexbear.net 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Brb adding another row to Endless_Churn_of_Horrors.xlsx

[–] bl4ckp1xx13@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] grendahlgrendahlgen@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago

Don't worry I'm editing it in LibreOffice Calc

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[–] none@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago (11 children)

We're running out of VPN's we can use...

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

Oof, this keeps getting worse.

[–] larrikin99@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

letsVPN has been crap recently, I'm on HK esim for now, but I heard Mullvad was a good provider that works in China. Besides Astrill (pricey) what would any sinobears recommend as an alternative?

[–] 21Gramsci@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

What you need is not technically a VPN but a proxy service, commonly known as an "airport". The difference between a VPN and an airport is mostly technical, all you need to know is that the focus is different: VPNs just hide the contents of your traffic from your ISP, but don't hide the fact that you're using a VPN. Airports use different protocols (Shadowsocks, VLESS, Trojan, etc.) focused on hiding the fact that you're using a proxy in the first place.

Most airports don't have their own client apps so they work with generic clients, the most common of which is Clash in its various forms (the core clash-kernel implementation is open source software, most GUI apps based on it are also FOSS but not all of them are). If you need help picking a version of Clash for a specific platform lmk. Usually once you sign up to an airport you get a private URL which you paste into Clash to create a configuration and you're ready to go.

Regarding specific providers the landscape changes all the time and I'm not very up to date. Last time I was in China I used one called Nexitally (dot com) which is still active and was quite good, but it was a couple years ago and I don't know if it's still reliable now. Anyway if you search stuff like "best clash airports 2026" you should find lists with a bunch of options.

As a heads up, airports are quite a bit more expensive than normal VPNs and usually have traffic caps (15-20USD/month for 500GB would be a normal price, for reference). Also, their websites generally don't look like VPNs, they will market themselves as "network accelerators" or some other buzzword. They have to keep a lower profile than normal VPNs so they won't directly tell you "we help you scale the wall", you need a bit of experience to figure out what service they're actually providing if you don't already know. Also remember to download Clash and set up the airport while you're still on your HK esim or outside the mainland, their websites might not be reachable from inside the wall.

Here's a few links that might be useful:

https://clashfast.com/zh-CN/blog/articles/clash-subscription-airport-buying-guide-2026.html

https://clashsource.com/en/blog/articles/how-to-choose-reliable-clash-airport-subscription-guide-2026.html

https://github.com/clashdownload/Clash

Also for @departee@hexbear.net.

[–] departee@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago

not a vpn but some users on here have been talking about vless, if someone has a guide for dummies I'd be interested too

[–] PigPoopBallsDotJPG@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Last elections in The Netherlands I browsed the policy proposals of Geert Wilders' PVV party and it struck me how a lot of them seemed more explicitly progressive than those on the liberal left. Then again, the outer facade of the NSDAP leaned into the same meme, which could be boiled down to: What if socialism, but not for those people?

People actually observing the PVV in action will note, though, that the 'fight against the rights of undesirable people' item on the agenda tends to take precedence over all the other campaign promises.

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[–] red_giant@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago

Being extremely pro- free speech to the point of defending the indefensible while being extremely opposed to any other form of liberty

[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Hot take: Interesting but I don't care. You shouldn't buy a VPN for political reasons, if you go looking for super anarchist/Marxist VPN services you'll fall right into a fed honeypot.

The VPN space is very fucked. Mostly zionist intelligence cut-outs, suspicious parties like Proton that might be the CIA's new crypto-AG, and so on. I mean it is a prime place for intelligence and police honeypots and a high priority target for the eyes alliance. Real fish in a barrel the targets come to you situation with VPNs for western mass surveillance intelligence spying. There are unfortunately no good no-logs, full-featured, unlimited traffic VPNs headquartered in western-immune, western hostile countries like Russia or China. So your choices are suspicious, weird, genocide funding/known compromised all around. There are no perfect choices.

What there are, are choices that have passed a certain sniff test of not keeping logs that are accessible to the police (whether there are logs kept by the eyes alliance groups which cops will be told "fuck off" to is another question) and Mullvad for good or ill passes that test. Being able to mail them cash is really great and cops couldn't find anything. The fact they turned off port forwarding makes them unsuitable if your major use case is yo-ho or other types of torrent enabled file sharing but for privacy they're hardly the worst option IMO.

So stop dooming if you paid for a subscription. Continue to use it. Honestly feel safer swimming next to fascists in this sense because they target the left not fascists and hiding among them in this kind of a case seems like it has no downsides from a privacy perspective.

Your money isn't going to bring about fascism and you shouldn't feel guilty buying a service that happens to be run by someone who gives some profits to fascists. If you feel guilty over that then go live in a cave in the woods because spoiler: things you buy everyday including shopping at a supermarket, major electronics where both available brands do it, etc are all in on supporting fascism and you won't "discerning consumer" your way out of fascism. Your safety and finances take priority over this kind of feel-good purchasing behavior.

Further if you already paid don't stop using it. That's just giving them free money from your lack of use given you already paid.

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[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Bad timing for just having prepaid over a year last week.

[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I've sent them an envelope with cash and no return address

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[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

2 months left on my yearly sub. thanks for the heads up, ill definitely be going elsewhere

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 days ago

Motherfucker

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[–] Chana@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Any alternatives with the same option for anonymity? You can send mullvad cash in an envelope or buy a voucher.

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

AirVPN accepts various crypto including Monero through no intermediary, that would probably be your best bet.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

Nice thank you

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

He's single handedly funding them too, it's not like it is just a small contribution. Yikes.

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago
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