• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Saying he ‘made a donation’ is downplaying his role. It makes it sound like he’s just some guy doing what everyone else does to participate in politics…

    The 2025 donation accounted for 72% of the party’s total income last year. … 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.

    Just the annual interest on his donation is more that all of their other donations for the entire year combined.

    He didn’t just make a donation, he is practically their sole source of financing.

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          23 hours ago

          The emigration stuff makes the rest of their positions so confusing.

          The leader was allegedly kicked out of the left party for liking anti fascists on Facebook, and they want free preschool, 30 hour work weeks, and a bunch of other social things.

          But then the remigration bullshit. Dumb.

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        2 days ago

        It’s basically just one really annoying dude stirring up shit in the municipal politics of Örebro.

        Make no mistake, he’s a massive piece of shit still

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        2 days ago

        I mean, yeah they are a shit party, but isn’t smaller and local parties kinda what we want? I’d rather have a 20 small parties in parliament than 2 big ones with some on the side lines.

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          2 days ago

          This is like saying sure he murdered the guy with his bare hands, but doesn’t society need more face to face human interaction?

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            1 day ago

            No, I just don’t think the size of the party is the thing we should criticise/make fun of it for. They’re clearly influential enough to snap up a big sponsor, and will now decide to actually try and run for parliament. UKIP was never large enough to get elected into parliament afaik, but they still managed to influence politics enough to cause brexit.

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          2 days ago

          These small parties are not up for a parliamentary position though. They are only active in their municipality. There are 8 parties in the Swedish parliament (though it looks like it’s going to be 7 after the election in fall).

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            2 days ago

            You’re forgetting the 12% exception, but they’d probably need an even larger amount than that.