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Daniel Berntsson, founder of Mullvad, gave a personal donation of 5 million SEK (roughly 450,000€) in 2025 to Örebropartiet. This enormous donation accounted for 72% of the party’s revenue in 2025.

How does this affect Mullvad’s legitimacy as a company advocating for a free and open internet, while also funding a political party whose agenda seem to contradict these values? The official party website (in Swedish) can be found via the link below.

https://orebropartiet.se/om-oss/

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Örebro is just a small non-significant city in sweden.

The Ö is pronounced like o in Motley Crew (for example).

I guess you get the "bro" feeling from it, and if you split it up, Öre means "cent" (of a swedish Krona) and Bro translates to bridge.

Thank you for attending my Töd talk.

[–] thomasloven@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Öre comes from Ör which is gravel or a bank or peninsula formed by gravel. Common in Swedish coastal areas. Kungsör, Skanör, Öresund.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

And Ö is island!

[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Thank you for the break down. I really appreciate the context. I'll add mine from this end.

Oreo, though also a cookie full of hydrolized nut-fat and sugar, can be a pejorative term for a black skinned person who does the bidding of white supremacy. This term is usually reserved for those who do it in the less directly violent ways. So think, a black man who only hires white people because that's what his boss demands, or because he himself is racist towards his own people.

He would be "black on the outside but white on the inside". Which is why an Americanized pronunciation of "Orebro" makes me think of the techbro fascists, "Libertarian on the outside but Nazi on the inside", who also pretended to be one of the working classes.

I enjoyed this cultural exchange. I think cent-bridge adds more depth to the tongue in cheek usage of Orebro, as tech bros do indeed pretend to build infrastructure, but the infrastructure is cheap and does not serve people well. It is merely a facade to fleece dollars from us. Fucking orebros.

[–] omigibson@aggregatet.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Seppo@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 days ago

It's a little shithole that people leave if they can.