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c-22 by Gary Anandasangaree. Will introduce 6 month metadata retention for internet service providers and share canadian data with US authorities.

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c-32 by Marc Miller. Second way to introduce age verification. Yes that guy who called privacy critics of c-22 tinfoil hats.

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 80 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Not just donated, is the biggest funder apparently.

[–] godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

72% of the party's funding Also more than 27x their entire previous year's funding

It's the founder who owns 50% of the company. He holds majority sway. He directs the company. Elon only owns 15% of Tesla for reference.

According to data collected by DonationWatch, 2025 was the most lucrative year in the party’s history, netting a total of 5.58 million SEK. For comparison, the party received just 202,000 SEK in total donations throughout 2024.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, TBF, his business model is reliant on fascists trying to spy on your private life.

Sounds like he's just trying to preserve his livelyhood.

There is a certain amount of sarcasm here.

[–] yestalgia@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Can someone clarify how the party that the Mullvad founder donated to is fascist?

I looked into it the other day (can't remember the name of the party now) and immigration seemed to be the only controversial aspect. Everything else seemed okay to me and even fairly progressive.

Plenty of shit nowadays is actually fascist and I'm not confident that applies here.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 day ago

They are nationalist racists trying to cloak themselves with populist leftist ideas. This is the leader of that party:

https://www.friatider.se/markus-allard-om-andra-generationens-invandrare-de-ska-ocksa-ut

Örebro Party leader Markus Allard goes to the election on expulsions. He opens to withdraw citizenship and also expel second generation of immigrants – even if they were born in Sweden.
"I'm prepared to cross corpses," he said.

One suggestion that he has is that citizenship and permanent residence permits can be torn up – with reference to "Sweden is the country of Swedes".

In a section of Yoshi's Podcast, Allard develops his view on expulsions and explains that he prepared to "go over corpses" to bring home unwanted immigrants. The host notes that there will be no beautiful sight when, for example, immigrant mothers who have been on maternity leave for 15 years are to be deported together with their children. "It's not going to be pretty to send these people home," he said. Markus Allard agrees, but says: I think you can handle that optics. Even the children will need to be deported, he explains.

He further explains that many of the problems relate to second-generation immigrants. They are going out too. Even if they were born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedes. They have not become Swedes. It says Sweden in the passport, but they have not been interested in becoming part of Sweden. There's a difference. It's a qualitative difference," Allard said

Remember; the Nazi's did the same thing by strategically calling their party the National Socialist German Workers' Party, despite them not being socialist nor a working class party. This was chosen because Socialism was gaining popularity, and thus the Nazi's thought it would help their chances of getting votes and public support.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 19 points 1 day ago

"Örebropartiet's obsession is "re-emigration" - i.e., sending all immigrants out of the country - which their leader Markus Allard describes as getting rid of "parasites.""

Örebro politician Markus Allard said in a debate that “we have to send out these fucking parasites”.

Note also discussing immigration is very different from discussing re-emigration. Most clearly defining political ideology for this party seems to be populist national conservative. Such an ideology can easily pivot to Nazi like far-right fascism once there is enough support. It is a much easier route to take than going far right from the start.

[–] aGlassDarkly@piefed.zip 15 points 1 day ago

Generally, “othering” another group and blaming issues on that group while calling for that group to be expelled from a region seems to be how a lot of that sort of thing gets going. Fascism looks at people and sees some of them as people and the rest of them as not people. It gets worse from there.

[–] godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sorry for the wall of text, copying and pasting from some of my other comments, I'll bold the main points to create the throughline:

What, by definition, constitutes fascism?

Merriam Webster

often Fascism : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition

At the core of fascism is loyalty to tribe, ethnic identity, religion, tradition, or, in a word, nation. —Jason Stanley

Just to make sure we're not looking at a singular definition, let's look at Wikipedia too

Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement that rose to prominence in early-20th-century Europe.[1][2][3] Fascism is characterized by support for a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.[3][4] Opposed to communism, democracy, liberalism, pluralism, and socialism,[5][6] fascism is at the far-right of the traditional left–right spectrum.[1][6][7]

And now, let's look at what the Örebro party's own stated platform, which received 72% of its funding from the Mullvad founder, which also amounted to 27 times their total funding in 2024:

Some of its key issues include strong secularism, a 30-hour workweek with retained pay, lowered wages for politicians, ending taxes on energy and fuel, ending taxpayer funding of what it sees as wasteful sculptures, monuments and art, large-scale remigration, expanded social housing, a stricter assimilation policy, and free dental care.[3][4]

https://www.friatider.se/markus-allard-om-andra-generationens-invandrare-de-ska-ocksa-ut

Örebro Party leader Markus Allard goes to the election on expulsions. He opens to withdraw citizenship and also expel second generation of immigrants – even if they were born in Sweden. "I'm prepared to cross corpses," he said.

One suggestion that he has is that citizenship and permanent residence permits can be torn up – with reference to "Sweden is the country of Swedes".

In a section of Yoshi's Podcast, Allard develops his view on expulsions and explains that he prepared to "go over corpses" to bring home unwanted immigrants. The host notes that there will be no beautiful sight when, for example, immigrant mothers who have been on maternity leave for 15 years are to be deported together with their children. "It's not going to be pretty to send these people home," he said. Markus Allard agrees, but says: I think you can handle that optics. Even the children will need to be deported, he explains.

He further explains that many of the problems relate to second-generation immigrants. They are going out too. Even if they were born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedes. They have not become Swedes. It says Sweden in the passport, but they have not been interested in becoming part of Sweden. There's a difference. It's a qualitative difference," Allard said

And what's remigration?

Remigration is a far-right concept referring to the 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.[2][3]

So fascism is about racial and national purity and hierarchy, as we defined, and the Orebro party supports remigration, which is a concept of forcing immigrants out of countries to preserve the purity of "culture" and the race of the nation.

"Sweden is for the Swedes"

"Israel is for Israelis"

"America is for Americans"

"Germany is for the Germans"

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