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The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

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Post by DaSHacka »

vrganj wrote: post #427
storus wrote: post #360

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> When our enemies say: well, we gave you the freedom of opinion back then - yeah, you gave it to us , that's in no way evidence that we should return the favor! Your stupidity shall not be contagious! That you granted it to us is evidence of how dumb you are! -- Joseph Goebbels, 1935 The whole point is that fascist movements will abuse your tolerance to build themselves up to a position where they can take it away f…

How ironic this quote perfectly encapsulates the inevitable conclusion to the issue of illegal immigration, which is exactly what topic of today is all about.

Being tolerant of intolerant cultures won't make them return the favor once they constitute a substantial portion of government and populace.

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Post by iamnothere »

jespinel wrote: post #306

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Notice how these people almost never go after the management of major multinationals, or even places like car dealerships and real estate firms. It’s almost always companies and projects that are critical to freedom and privacy. That should tell you all you need to know.

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Post by dsign »

Slightly tangential on Swedish society, there are similarities between USA and Sweden. There's a large segment of society that is white and very blond, and there's a largish segment which is not. Along that same line there are all kinds of divisions: economic, education, religious, sets of values, and of access to things and possibilities. What pisses me off is that the cast of "CEOs of successful companies" live in an sphere of privilege where they really are not bothered at all by the brown people. They in fact have plenty of places to go, a vast archipelago, out of reach for anybody who can't afford a boat. Though they get all the benefits, including cheap qualified labor from people who had to leave their homelands displaced by poverty, conflict and war. I'll switch VPN provider too.

One of these days we will elect somebody who is corrupt and morally corrupt, incompetent and poorly educated and who'll promise to screw us over many times and in many positions, and we will let him just do so so that there are concentration camps for the brown people.

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Post by epistasis »

KaiserPro wrote: post #430
stefanfisk wrote: post #160

To be fair, Örebropartiet can also be called an extreme left party. It’s complicated… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party

Does it matter if they are left or right? The point is, they want to round up lawful citizens and turf them out of the country because they have the audacity to be slightly foreign, or worse born to someone foreign. that is the issue, not how much tax/spend big/little government.

Exactly, the problem is not left/right it's the authoritarianism, which is again a huge threat to the world after being held mostly in check in Western democracies for many years.

People tend to forget about the "Last Man" part of Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man", but we are definitely in the phase of the Last Man seeking conflict and fighting against our hard-won freedoms.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

addedGone wrote: post #282
padjo wrote: post #137

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"They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish" For all the stuff about free dentists this sounds pretty right wing to me.

What's wrong about it? You expect me to be a jap citizen if I just over-stay there and have my children born there?

You? No, not for that alone.

But if your kids spend the first dozen years of their life in a country, they should get to stay in that country.

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Post by neya »

mrhottakes wrote: post #334
kfreds wrote: post #118

Hi, Mullvad has two owners, founders, and CEOs - Daniel Berntsson, and me, Fredrik Strömberg. All posts I've seen yesterday and today, including the newspaper articles, talk about Mullvad as if Daniel is the single owner, founder and CEO. It should be obvious that Daniel's private donation to a political party is not part of Mullvad's values or mission. If you have any questions, comments or concerns you're welcome t…

So you're a political company, but you don't want people to examine the politics of the people running the company? That seems naive.

"Rules for thee, but not for me"

Classic

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Post by dijit »

devindotcom wrote: post #478
dijit wrote: post #465

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Is IKEA fascist? Because the founder was a Nazi supporter; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingvar_Kamprad I'm not saying this to dunk on IKEA, but sometimes even when there's a sole founder, the mission of the company and the mission of the person who founded it do not necessarily align. EDIT: It also seems that the party is extremely left leaning but is anti-immigration, as a person who lives in Swedens third largest…

Is IKEA's founder alive and currently donating lots of money to a political party advocating for mass deportation of "parasites"? If so let me know and I will stop buying IKEA furniture!

You seriously didn't buy IKEA furniture 10 years ago?

I do not believe you.

Regardless: do you think IKEA did more to promote Naziism in the decades that proceeded Ingvars death, or more after?

(the answer is of course: the exact same amount, which is none).

If you're unhappy making people wealthy who you disagree with, unfortunately I'm going to have to suggest that you disengage with society, your taxes fuel wars (largely against brown people), you're forced to use technology created with slave labour in order to engage with banking applications and you're going to be really mad when you discover what goes into your food.

Taking an absolute position against one person who creates a service that would allow you to evade fascism is pretty ironic given the way the world is going regarding online speech.

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Post by dgellow »

al_borland wrote: post #397
daneel_w wrote: post #315

To the people using Mullvad I have two sincere and unpopular questions: do you actively scrutinize and examine the key people of every service and product you use, or is it just a reflexive change of footing whenever you happen upon news like this? Also, do you really switch , or is it just a heat of moment kind of thing and an opportunity to profess yourself?

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