Mullvad donated some money to a Neo-N@zi party. To me, umless if they keep doing this, it doesn't feel too important, as long as they keep their products up and going. What does it mean to you? Your opinion could change my mind

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The far-right generally take popular talking points from the left. That's what the fascists and the nazis did. That's the whole reason why the nazis called themselves "national socialists", despite being ultra-capitalist and not socialist at all. Socialism being popular again means the far-right can (once again) take leftist talking points to appeal to the sense of disenfranchisement produced by capitalism. Even Trump used some leftist arguments here and there in his campaigns. We can argue all you want that Trump (just like these losers) would never do anything to benefit workers, but my point here is that we can't just judge a party's left-right alignment based on simple rhetoric, we need to judge them based on their broader context, broader platform, and on who's actually backing it. To consider them leftist based on empty rhetoric would force you to conclude Hitler was also "very left leaning except for their views on" ethnic cleansing. Come on lol.

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