The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.
~ https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/
What’s up with every VPN company being facist right wing fucks?!
[Örebro Party leader] Allard has described himself as a Communist, and a Marxist
A self-described communist promoting right-wing ideas? Lemmy is quite familiar with that concept.
How can the national socialist party be right wing? They said they’re socialists!
/s fucking obviously I hope.
"Allard and his party have been described as a nationalist[6], left-wing populist and right-wing populist.[7] He has also been accused of being a communist.[6] Biography
From 2009 to 2013, Allard was chairman of the Young Left’s district organisation in Örebro. He worked for the election campaign of Oumar Mariko in Mali during the 2012 Malian coup d’état.[8][9] "
“In a post from 2012 Allard criticized the state of Israel and wrote that “Cuba is going to be placed under an embargo but the fascist apartheid state of Israel is defended until the last Palestinian child has been incinerated. Liberal politics.”[17] In 2025 he again referenced the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and wrote that he “does not give a shit” about Israel or Palestine and that he thinks it is wrong to kill children regardless of which side perpetuates it.[18]”
“The Örebro Party with Allard as its leader says it wants to cut the salary for politicians and use that money to make dental care free/subsidized by the money taken from the politicians salaries.[25] On the topic of lowering the work hours Allard, in 2026 in the municipal assembly, voted in favor of a proposal by the Left party to enable a 30 hour work week with retained salary for some welfare occupations such as preschool teachers and employees at care facilities as a trial project that would after two years be evaluated.[26]”
Lemmy in shambles lol
Huh what kind of adhd of an ideology is this lmao.
Def sounds like something would come up from up north. Disconnected and thinks they know what’s best for everyone (but themself first before anyone)
I’m sure they’ll find their great place within the eyes of whoever nutjub is going to be put in to the seat after trump.
Fuck this world man. Seriously. Idk what to say or think anymore.
Instead of a concrete ideology, it seems like a handful of unrelated policies strung together. Like he held no opinion on anything until he decided (via ADHD? Unclear) to. But only on very specific things. No broader ideology.
I’m basing that entirely on this comment thread so I don’t really know anything I guess.
A lot of Hungarian far-right parties promoted workplace democracies being the future when they didn’t promote getting rid of democracy.
I’m surprised that Sweden allows individuals to donate that much. Million dollar contributions from a single person should not be legal anywhere.
Shit, not everyday you see your hometown on Lemmy of all places. I know Allard from my syndicalist youth days, him beeing head of the local leftpartys youth wing. This party is more of a local populist left party. AMAA i guess.
Anybody know of a VPN service that
- Allows port forwarding (i.e. you can run a bittorrent client and accept incoming connections)
- Allows connections using the Wireguard protocol
- Doesn’t have Israeli ownership
- Isn’t owned by fascists
- Has exit nodes around the world, with a decent number of options and good speeds
So far, the ones with major problems are:
- Mullvad is out because of pro-Fascist ownership.
- CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, ExpressVPN, and Intego are owned by Kape Technologies which is Israeli
I’m unsure about the whether airvpn is owned by fascists but it seems to fit the rest of your criteria and at least on paper is italian
Agreed. This is what I use for my bittorrent server.
You know I hear this thing called nord I’m sorry I can’t finish without laughing
NORD VPN! To protect your phone from being hacked because surely that’s what a VPN does! BUY NORD VPN NOW!
What is it about them that’s especially bad?
Bad? Nothing really that I’ve experienced (because I have no experience) I just like joking about the pervasivenesss of their ads. They’re the VPN Shen Yun, so I keep expecting to hear about them being associated with a cult.
IVPN is good. https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/#recommended-providers
Idk how this Airvpn suggestions are popping up. Never even heard them before.
I’ve heard of them, but I don’t know much about them.
As for IVPN:
IVPN previously supported port forwarding, but removed the option in June 2023. Missing this feature could negatively impact certain applications, especially peer-to-peer applications like torrent clients
So it’s the same as Mullvad, because they also removed it in 2023.
Njalla is owned by Peter Sunde and almost fits the bill.
Minus the exit nodes around the world.
njalla censors queer voices and holds their DNS hostage for it. njalla is not to be trusted.
i cannot comment further on the specifics here sadly but I will never give njalla a single fucking penny, personally
I can’t find any information on this. Can you provide a source?
please re-read my comment in its entirety.
I do not see a reason you could not discuss this. However, am not asking you to discuss it. I am asking for a source.
If you cannot back up your claims or provide a source which can, I have to disregard your post as slander. I don’t want to do that if you are being honest. I am only asking for intellectual responsibility on your part.
ProtonVPN qualifies in my book under these guidelines, but different people are more or less stringent with what they’ll tolerate on the fourth requirement you specified.
Try proton vpn I guess
I think AirVPN fits that criteria, no?
I don’t know, that’s why I’m asking.
Proton?
Unless I’m mistaken, also problematic
What’s the problem with Gail Slater?
When you smell something bad when you’re next to someone, it’s probably them.
When you smell something bad when you’re next to anyone, it’s probably you.
When you smell some bombs all around you, it’s probably Trump and Netanyahu
Completed the rhyme for you 😉
The wiki for the Örebro Party actually describes it as not identifiable as left or right and the founder was actually far left. It also advocates for things like free dental care and anti-corruption. So things aren’t as simple as purely anti-immigration which is very populist in Sweden.
The initiative to found the Örebro Party was taken in early 2014 by Markus Allard, who is also the first party leader. Allard had previously held positions as substitute member of the Örebro municipal council and district chairman of the Young Left in Örebro; in December 2013 he was expelled from the Left Party and its youth wing Young Left for “liking” the Revolutionary Front, a militant revolutionary socialist and anti-fascist organization, on Facebook and refusing to disavow it when questioned.
What the fuck did I just see?? Mullvad after Proton… So sad… :(
Why can’t we have nice things??!!
it’s almost like money and greed breed power hungry assholes…
Apparently the longer someone is in power, the more their brain structure changes. I guess the phrase “your head is getting bigger” is physically true after all.
When’s the last time you updated the firmware on your duck
Mullvad was dead to me when they pussied out and took away port forwarding. That’s how I knew they were compromised
Thanks guys for posting this and for suggesting alternatives. I’ll look into airvpn I guess. Fuck anyone who wants to make society worse by giving into their worst character traits and base instincts.
Ffs I was planning to switch to Mulvad since my Nord subscription is finally expiring next month, then I find this shit. I’m looking into AirVPN. They sound solid enuff.
Italy is a 14 eyes countries which disqualifies any VPN service thats hosted there.
They look trustable (no email, payment in monero, no tracking) but they’re incorporated in Italy which is one of the stupidest countries in the world for this purpose
Have you ever wondered why usually VPN companies are based in countries like Cyprus, Panama, virgin islands or Labuan?
Yeah that’s a good point haha tax havens for the W I guess. On another note, I think Proton VPN is also a good alternative since they’re based in Swiss, where data protection laws are mega strict.
Proton has given user data to the FBI and French authorities.
If you have an account with them you should remove the recovery email and credit card. Those are the two things they can share AFAIK.
I am in Italy, AirVPN is Italian, and every page of their site states that you cannot access their services if you’re an Italian resident.
Any idea why?
Not sure if this was rhetorical but here’s an earnest response
What about IVPN?
So Mullvad is over. What’s the next best VPN?
I literally just ran out of time on my subscription too lol.
God. Fucking. Dammit.
Oh cmon! I trusted 'em to not shit in their pants, what next? We discover that Torvalds and Stallman are transphobic?
TIL kernel.org has a Mastodon instance.
My original comment was ironic but having a confirm that his political ideas are not bullshit is nice
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Speaking as someone who does some work for Stallman, although he is right 99% of the time, that last 1% is a doozy
