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The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party (mastodon.social)
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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/

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 33 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

IT company Mullvad founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a huge donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive remigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he tells Flamman.

Five million kronor. That's how much money the populist Örebro Party received in 2025 – from a single person. This is shown in the party's income statement, which Flamman has reviewed.

Behind the giant donation is Daniel Berntsson, founder and co-owner of the internationally successful IT company Mullvad.

"This is a donation from me personally," he writes in an email to Flamman.

The company has made large profits in recent years through the sale of so-called VPN services, which make it possible to surf anonymously. In 2024, the company had a turnover of 314 million kronor.

The five million from Berntsson constitutes the majority – a full 72 percent – ​​of the Örebro Party's income last year. It is also the largest single private donation to a party in 2025. ———————————————

That’s the entirety of the article the toot references. No idea what it means.

[–] ambitiousslab@feddit.uk 28 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

The main part is the party's support for so-called "remigration", which is

ethnic cleansing[1] via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry

About the immigration policy of the party:

Markus Allard initiated heavy debate in 2025 by claiming that Sweden is "the land for/belongs to the Swedes" and that the Örebro party favors a large scale remigration policy. He also criticized the Sweden Democrats for, according to him, allowing too many immigrants into the country under their watch as confidence and supply to the Kristersson cabinet.

In 2026 ÖP party leader Markus Allard sparked controversy on several occasions. In a debate hosted by Studio3 with Liberal member of parliament Martin Melin, Allard asked: "why won't the Liberals push for deporting 100 000 social welfare-Somalis?" and in the same debate said that "Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense." [45]

In a podcast segment about immigration and deportations Allard stated his opinion and said that "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." [46]

About the foreign policy of the party:

In a podcast in May 2026 Allard clarifies some positions that his party holds and among other things made clear that leaving the EU and NATO were on the table for ÖP. Regarding NATO Allard claimed that Sweden cannot trust or rely on NATO and that the country should instead seek to massively increase its weapons production and also become a major arms exporter, arguing it would benefit the Swedish economy.[47][48]

[–] TWeaK@lemmy.today 19 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Allard stated his opinion and said that “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.”

Lol how is being born somewhere not a natural connection???

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 13 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Also how far do you go back? What’s the magic number? Cos at some point pretty much everyone’s is an immigrant to their country.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

I just had a surreal vision of Trump sending the whole state of Minnesota to Norway and Sweden.

[–] TWeaK@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Maybe it's only okay if you're kidnapped by a viking XD

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Sounds like you entered the country via a small boat if that was the case. Sorry gotta throw those back.

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 0 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago)

Well, according to the Sweden Democrats, the far right party the government collaborates with and their youtube channel (which they have allegedly cut ties with, but that proved to be a lie a while back) that also gave Allard his own show, had a program worrying about "third generation" immigrants, when talking about who is "great replacement" replacing Swedes.

Thats right, in a program where they were talking about how every single one with two foreign born parents and half (because "that seems fair", they said in the program) of those with a single foreign born parent are paricipating in a replacement conspiracy, they at the same time worried about the great gap in the statistics that does not keep track on who is third generation immigrants, so the replacement is even greater than that.

How far? If you've got a you got a grandpa with a sun tan you might be impure to these fucks. But our government thinks they are fine people.

Edit, oh yeah, the native Sami people and Jews are not Swedish to them either. They have doubled down on this many times.