• Hiplobbe@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Because (at least of lemmy) they spam articles about this, and treat it like some “gotcha” moment that would make the company no longer able to fulfill their purpose.

    One of the owners investing in a political party should not be this big of a deal, and the articles provided are clearly made to put suspicion on not only Mullvad but also on ÖP.

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      1 day ago

      Because (at least on lemmy) they spam articles about this, and treat it like some “gotcha” moment that would make the company no longer able to fulfill their purpose.

      Because more militant left leaning views are pretty common here. Seems to be the Occam’s Razor answer.

      Yes of course, it is to me just clear that it is not about Mullvad. The post are about ÖP.

      To what end? Surely locals would have a better idea of exactly where their politics stand… what’s the point in giving a false impression to people from random countries on the Internet?

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        1 day ago

        So people are mostly driven of “what is popular”, so if you spam the article and astroturf them. You give the illusion that it is a big problem that a lot of people care about. And that leads to people taking it more seriously.

        So the end here is to make people who would leave the left-party (Vänsterpartiet) to vote for ÖP, feel alienated. “Oh my god, I can’t vote for a far right party! I better vote for the ‘only’ left party that is left.” is the thought they want them to have.

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          I guess I’m just skeptical this false impression will work on locals… I’d presume they aren’t hearing from this group from lemmy mainly and likely already have feelings established, no? It just seems to me this wouldn’t be a good forum on which to spread misinformation… strikes me as a lot more likely that a forum known for being pretty left leaning is just latching onto a story that is related to their interest.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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      2 days ago

      I want to know if money I’m paying a company is directly contributing to fascists. According to Wikipedia,

      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.

      Nationalism is a Key Smell of fascism.

    • HieroProtagonist@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      I don’t think you need a targeted campaign for that… give some of the lunatics extremists left leaning lemmy folks only the slightest hint that some service may not pass the purity testing and they will jump on it like a fly on a big pile of shit.

      • Hiplobbe@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Yes of course, it is to me just clear that it is not about Mullvad. The post are about ÖP.