The amount of people rushing to defend the actions of a white supremacist in this thread is deeply disturbing. His past ties to "Keep Sweden Swedish" (a known neonazi organization) are well established.
Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died
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#72Essential reading for anyone curious about Carl Lundström's life outside of bankrolling The Pirate Bay: https://www.theregister.com/2012/09/21/pirate_bay_fascist_ba... https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/26/pirate_bay_neo_nazi > Lundström was linked to a gang of skinheads that attacked Latin American tourists in Stockholm in the mid-1980s. Over the years, Lundström has switched his support from Keep Sweden Swedish to…
BSS ("keep Sweden Swedish") were Nazis. I am old enough to remember them heiling in the streets (real proper heiling, not the kind you accidentally do at a presidential inauguration. Twice). He never really managed to distance himself from that. Not that he seemed to try. Outside of financing thepiratebay ge spent most of his life hiding assets from being taxed. And he also lobbied an anti-tax organisation for an eve…
> He never really managed to distance himself from that. Not that he seemed to try.
Is there any reason to believe he even wanted to distance himself from it? He ran for office just a few years ago on essentially the same platform.
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Are you actually fine with white supremacists? Or do you just defend them out of ignorance?
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Disgusting defense, there is something wrong with harassing any citizens whose face you don't think is white enough to belong to "your people", like "Keep Sweden Swedish" did.
Why would the skin color of those who lived there 1000 years ago be relevant to anything? I don't see many Americans advocating for an expulsion of all non-indians (rightly so).
Also, when was the last time a nationalist wave led to anything good for anyone? All I can recall is ruin and suffering.
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> The joy of driving artists and musicians into bankruptcy is more important than any of that, apparently. Comments like these distract from the larger point you're making because they misrepresent the nature of the effect that TPB (and similar services) actually have had on artists, and on the historical relationship between artists and the capital class throughout history. It's a common misconception that fileshari…
>It's a common misconception that filesharing harms artists Case in point EU study proving that. https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-...
Just for clarity of anyone else passing by, the full title of that study is:
The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm SalesRe: Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died
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Disgusting defense, there is something wrong with harassing any citizens whose face you don't think is white enough to belong to "your people", like "Keep Sweden Swedish" did. Why would the skin color of those who lived there 1000 years ago be relevant to anything? I don't see many Americans advocating for an expulsion of all non-indians ( rightly so ). Also, when was the last time a nationalist wave led to anything…
>Why would the skin color of those who lived there 1000 years ago be relevant to anything? I don't see many Americans advocating for an expulsion of all non-indians (rightly so).
it's kind of too late to expel non-indians, because there are virtually no indians left.
there's a lesson to be learned from their fate, don't you think?
>Also, when was the last time a nationalist wave led to anything good for anyone? All I can recall is ruin and suffering.
well, a fairly recent example would be Ukraine, which would be a Russian province now if it wasn't for their ethnic - yes, ethnic, not civic - nationalism.
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We are getting older and so are your heroes. They just die.
It sometimes feels the more evil you are, the longer you live. Larry Silverstein, George Soros, Rupert Murdoch, Charles Koch, Donald Trump are enjoying their best lives. And before that, David Rockefeller (til 101 years!). Life is unfair from the beginning.
Is George Soros evil? I always thought he did a lot of good for the world.
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Glad he accidentally did at least one half-decent thing with his money once. Wonder what his reason was for it, it's not a stance I'd expect from someone with his political leanings.
Wonder what his reason was for it Initially almost certainly money. He had a history of being an entrepreneur and investor involved in all kinds of random businesses. Back when he first got involved with TPB, what they were doing (just hosting torrent links) wasn't technically illegal in Sweden, and he probably figured that getting shares in what had potential to become a massive web site in return for offering free…
Haha so this one good thing was maybe by accident or spite, that jives.
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It sometimes feels the more evil you are, the longer you live. Larry Silverstein, George Soros, Rupert Murdoch, Charles Koch, Donald Trump are enjoying their best lives. And before that, David Rockefeller (til 101 years!). Life is unfair from the beginning.
Is George Soros evil? I always thought he did a lot of good for the world.
He is not, but the extreme right likes to demonize him so they can use his name as a smear but claim they’re not anti-Semitic.
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Aaron Swartz is so young there is really nothing much to say about him. This guy lived basically 3x of Aaron's lifetime.
> Aaron Swartz is so young there is really nothing much to say about him. This is absolutely insulting, given how clear he Aaron Swartz was about his beliefs from a young age and how much he accomplished in effecting them before he died. > This guy lived basically 3x of Aaron's lifetime. I have no idea what this is supposed to imply.
Life is short and Aaron received a fraction of that. One can only imagine what would've been had Aaron received more time.