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Posted by Risse 13 hours ago

The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party(det.social)
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SCdF 3 days ago|
Additional context here is that they donated 75% of *all donations* to that party last year. 3x everyone else combined.

And that party is not just "kind of right wing", they believe in large scale "remigration" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration), which, to save you clicking the link, means "a far-right concept referring to the ethnic cleansing via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry".

There is a wealth of difference between when random companies throw a few thousand at whatever the leading parties are, and this.

nisegami 3 days ago||
It's funny how remigration never involves sending white folk back to europe.
JuniperMesos 3 days ago||
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10xDev 3 days ago|||
You certainly see a lot of tourists and expats. And it is easy to see the worst behaving ones especially in parts of Asia.
ndsipa_pomu 2 days ago||||
I daresay that Australia and New Zealand are places that white people invaded and then put up barriers to stop too many other people (of any colour) coming to live there.

> There's a real racial asymmetry in the world between whites and nonwhites in terms of building countries people wish to live in.

I think your framing is incorrect - the asymmetry is far more to do with money and power than a shade of skin.

nisegami 3 days ago||||
I meant from the Americas
JuniperMesos 2 days ago||
There's only two white countries in the Americas, the United States and Canada, which got that way by being Anglo settler-colonies whose governments were founded by white, mostly-English people who conquered the land from a relatively sparse native American population and did not intermix with that population in great numbers.

Every other country in the Americas was originally founded by Spanish or Portuguese or other non-Anglo European colonial powers, who generally had much larger native American populations, and did have substantial population intermixing; which is why today people in the US and Canada consider the entire racial category "Latino" - which was formed by exactly that admixture event - to be nonwhite, even though in Latin America itself individuals vary widely in exactly what proportions of white, native American, and black ancestry they have.

There are people, often native American nationalists or far-leftists sympathetic to native American nationalists because they are nonwhite, who do support remigration of whites from the United States and Canada. The most fundamental problems with this argument are that 1) the number of white people in these countries is much larger than the number of actual indigenous people and has already demographically swamped the indigenous many centuries ago; and 2) there was never any native American government with anywhere near the state capacity to even have immigration laws, let alone enforce them, at any point in history. Modern levels of state capacity are basically an invention of Western European technological modernity and came out of the same half-millenium-old process of historical development that lead to the conquest of North America by non-admixed whites to begin with. The very land areas recognized by international law that we label the United States and Canada are themselves white creations; there's zero indigenous American political or cultural continuity involved with them (which is indeed a major political grievance of native Americans and their political allies). There's no prior indigenous state that could be returned to after the expulsion of whites, if that were even physically tractable.

eudamoniac 3 days ago|||
This of course means that all of those latter countries need to import millions of people from the other countries because this is bound to increase the quality of the good country, somehow.
anonym29 3 days ago|||
>ethnic cleansing via mass deportation

"ethnic cleansing" is an emotionally charged term that conjures genocide in the popular imagination. It is not a good descriptive term for what can rightly be described as regressive or ultra-nationalistic migration policy.

solid_fuel 3 hours ago||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

> Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal such as deportation or population transfer, it also includes indirect methods aimed at forced migration by coercing the victim group to flee and preventing its return, such as murder, rape, and property destruction.

Ethnic cleansing is a completely accurate description of "remigration". It invokes strong emotions because the act itself is wrong.

10xDev 3 days ago|||
As economies shrink and jobs become scarce, we may reach pre-ww2 order.
zymhan 3 days ago||
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10xDev 3 days ago||
Nothing to see here of course. Luckily some us have savings and can see the tide shift. Good luck.
focusgroup0 3 days ago|||
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Jysix 3 days ago|||
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elzbardico 3 days ago||
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steinvakt2 12 hours ago||
A headline and 20 comments and no mention of what this party actually stands for. Only simple labels such as "far-right". Ehh. The Republican Party in America is EXTREMELY far right by Swedish standards. So maybe one should base this on the actual substance rather than labels?
NoImmatureAdHom 4 hours ago||
Mullvad does an excellent job, and I support them.
ar_lan 3 days ago||
This is a bizarre thread.

People are surprised that a privacy-oriented businessman is right-wing is very strange.

"Millions" in the title is also misleading in this context - it's millions in Swedish Kronor, which is roughly $500K USD. A lot, but the title seems intentionally misleading.

I've also never really understood the cycle of boycotting things because you don't like how an individual spends their own money. Almost every company will employ people who have values you severely disagree with, and put money toward those causes. And turning to Proton as the alternative is... a choice?

jlongr 3 days ago|
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ar_lan 3 days ago||
You're misinterpreting what I said. Being dense, honestly.

The start of this thread was primarily people saying they were taking their money elsewhere - and then suggesting Proton, whose CEO was in the hot seat for praising the Republican party. It makes no sense to have such a violent reaction to something like this and not consider that competitors could be similar.

The reality is that in general, your money is always going to somebody you don't want it to go to.

jlongr 11 hours ago||
Oh so let's just be reductive about the issues that are important to us. Let's just throw our hands up in the air and say "Pobody's nerfect!" BFFR
dmantis 6 hours ago||
Such a convenient time frame with all think-of-the-children bs wave to point fingers at the one of the best VPN services our there with spotless reputation and raise a hysteria with duplicated stream of posts, isn't it?

Surely just a coincidence.

sourcecodeplz 13 hours ago||
archive link? the post got deleted
Risse 13 hours ago|
They might be having some capacity issues, it was 404 for me for a while but now it's back.

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20260629105534/https://det.socia...

sourcecodeplz 12 hours ago||
thanks, i got to the actual article that was linked: https://web.archive.org/web/20260628170131mp_/https://www.fl...
rvz 7 hours ago||
Still waiting to cancel Big Tech for donating to Trump [0] and they donated more than a million+.

So why haven't we cancelled Big Tech yet?

[0] https://www.commoncause.org/articles/big-tech-is-donating-mi...

tekla 7 hours ago|
Already had this topic discussed several times this week.
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