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"donation"? this is called lobbying. And it should be illegal.
If it was illegal to donate money, these money would still reach the recipients - but without anyone's knowledge.
Sounds like a seriously bad argument against laws....
All private financing of political parties and politicians everywhere must stop.
Just as religion and state must be separated so must politics and money. If you hold more than $10 million in assets you don't get to influence politics. It's one or the other, not both.
Giving tax money so politicans can market themselves needs to stop. We all here understand how crowdfunding works, it would work just as well with political parties.
The funding they receive from their own members should be enough.
i mean, that's not quite how it worked for me. politics (at least the kind i did) is basically getting the people with $10 million or more in assets to donate to and get involved with their communities. we had to trade some favors (there are a few musicians on the board who lend their services for such instances. most of the time it was that, once or twice it was "teach my fuckup kid how to work"), but we got funding for homelessness services.
if we couldn't trade those favors, we wouldn't have any homeless shelters in my county. they ran off grants mostly (during democrat administrations. during republican administrations, we ran off hope and loan forgiveness), but they can't expand without extraordinary help. which unfortunately takes politicking (which i hate, but they wanted me doing it)
Then your state is not capable of taxing those with money to extract the value it needs to run said country...
Why do we need private money to fix public things because the politic-people can't be bothered to look anywhere but the next donation goal.
This isnt a donation but a "Pretty please, pay me a standard contractor rate in the disguise of a 'donation'".
Man I hate this illusionary and superficial bullshit
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.
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.
Because more militant left leaning views are pretty common here. Seems to be the Occam's Razor answer.
Yes of course, it is to me just clear that it is not about Mullvad. The post are about ÖP.
To what end? Surely locals would have a better idea of exactly where their politics stand... what's the point in giving a false impression to people from random countries on the Internet?
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).
I don't think you need a targeted campaign for that... give some of the ~~lunatics~~ ~~extremists~~ left leaning lemmy folks only the slightest hint that some service may not pass the purity testing and they will jump on it like a fly on a big pile of shit.
Yes of course, it is to me just clear that it is not about Mullvad. The post are about ÖP.
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?
This is way worse than what Yen did. This guy donated a lot of money to a party that explicitly pushes demigration policies, and if there was any doubt that this was a motivating factor for the donation, he later said he felt those policies were necessary. That's understandable to not want to give your money to someone who you know is going to go bankroll demigration politics with some of your money.
Yen praised the Republicans at large over an anti trust pick.
I think the other criticisms of Proton's policy changes are valid, and everyone has different standards for what is enough to divest from a company I guess, but I've heard people calling Yen a fascist sympathizer for that statement, and that's just divorced from reality imo.
The party is "pushing" for something that is already law. Re-migration, at least in a Swedish context, aims to let people VOLUNTARILY return to their home country but with the intensive to get some cash to start up their new lifes there.
Sources....
https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2025/10/ett-kraftigt-hojt-atervandringsbidrag
I still wouldn't support it and would probably pull my money from someone who is actively promoting it. Often this kind of sentiment is a soft pedaled version of more ugly policies, and I just don't agree with it in the first place. I think nationalism is generally an ignorant position and the lesson of the 20th century should be that trying to maintain homogeneous states nearly always leads to genocide in the worst cases and apartheid states in the best of times. So this doesn't assuage me much.
That said, extra context is always welcome.
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"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
Hey just FYI you wouldn't be saying any of this unless you knew about the donation. What grocery store do you shop at?
Farmers markets and some local shops we have around us.
The irony of these holier-than-thou lemmy folks using a term like "calling a spade a spade"
"be 100% pure, organic, free-range, antifascist like me, otherwise we cant be friends or have discussions at all!!!"
i mean, while there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, why does it seem like so many people are trying their hardest to rack up the most unethical consumption? Like there's a counter somewhere or something idk.
that was rhetorical, i know why. fucking cern weasels.
Then do something by promoting alternatives, stop being lazy
https://www.xda-developers.com/replaced-entire-proton-subscription-with-free-private-apps/
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There is no middle ground to be had with Nazis. It's us or them. If the Nazi won't leave Mullvad, then I will leave as a customer. Simple as
Where are the nazis? Are you talking about the leninist party ÖP as nazis?
I think that is the modern use of the word "Nazi", best translated with "i don't like them"
Yes, but this is super dangerous. I have seen young boys in my politcal party (liberal conservative) basically stand guard for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_clubs because "well the left calls everything nazi, including us. So these guys probably wants the same as us. And we on the right needs to stand together."
Ironically rhetoric like this is in fact normalizing the word nazi, and has more become a word to describe a group that the left doesn't like. Rather than a fascist leaning party.
"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.
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