Could someone fully explain the mullvad controversy. From my knowledge so far it seems like the cofounder donated to an alt right party and it’s probably a bad sign for the company. Anything I’m missing?

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    18 days ago

    The Örebro Party (Swedish: Örebropartiet, ÖP or ÖrP) is a political party in Sweden. The party was initially only a local party in Örebro, Sweden. Markus Allard is the party leader. According to Allard the party cannot be placed anywhere on the traditional left-right spectrum. The party has been variously characterised as left-wing and right-wing, as well as populist, nationalist and conservative.

    Some key issues for the Örebro Party locally include strong secularism, a 30-hour workweek with retained pay, lowered wages for politicians, expanded social housing, abolishing preschool-fees, making public transport free of charge,[3] ending taxpayer funding of what it sees as wasteful sculptures, monuments and art and introducing free dental care.[4][5] Nationally the party has set out large-scale remigration, closing the Swedish borders to immigration, a stricter assimilation policy and ending taxes on energy and fuel as some of its key issues.[6][7]

    Don’t see anything particularly racist. And since when domestic weapons manufacture is the problem?

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      17 days ago

      I’m sure you can hand select passages about hitler that also suit your stance while making him seem like kermit the frog.

      Since when are weapons not a problem?

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        17 days ago

        These are literally the first passages from Wikipedia.

        What country doesn’t have domestic weapons manufacturing? Is it a problem when US or France do it?

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          17 days ago

          Yes of course it is a problem when the usa, france, russia etc do it, it obviously makes them evil countries. Weapons exist to kill.

          The usa is responsible for approximately 42% of the global arms market. 1 country, 42%, clearly not the good guys.