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GOG Fighting the Good Fight (lemmy.ca)
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[–] 5 points 3 months ago (17 children)

Wait really? Not disbelieving you. Just genuinely didn't know.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (13 children)
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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    ngl if this is the only proof there is of them being nazis then I don't believe they're nazis. If they were, there would be more evidence beyond an email subject and I doubt a nazi organization would put these symbols in a random email anyway.

    This is just fodder for people who like to performatively accuse everyone of being a nazi for their dopamine fix while knowing zero about how actual nazi organizations function or behave.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    I never actually saw the mail before. I read the GOG apology and assumed they used runes that looked a bit too similar, but looking at the screenshot they full on used the Siegrune at least.

    Rereading the apology, they might not be Nazi's but they're definitely not sorry enough to give a proper apology for using Nazi imagery. That's not a good look either.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    They knew it was a nazi symbol and intentionally didn't send it to German users where it could get them into legal trouble. They said as much in their """apology""".

    Sorry, but you can't say "it was an accident, I didn't know" if I catch you sneaking around trying to avoid being caught doing something.

    At the very least more than one person knew what was happening, including, apparently, the person in charge of that PR message.

    Given that, and the fact that no one was fired for this, it seems a lot like like they're infested with nazis to me. Hell of a lot of smoke for there not to be a fire.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    So basically some idiot intern stuck Nazi symbols in a mass email to see if they would get away with it. I'm sorry but I'm going to need stronger evidence than this before I believe the claim that "GOG is being run by Nazis".

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    They don't get to say "sorry it was an accident" when they specifically didn't send the message to German users (which could get them into legal trouble).

    They also don't get to say "it was one Nazi intern acting on their own" when no one was fired for it.

    And by the way, the "it was one rogue intern" narrative is not something they ever claimed or implied in any of their PR messages. They would look a hell of a lot better if that's what happened, but that's not the case.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    You don't know whether or not someone was fired for it or not. They aren't obligated to do everything in their power to appease people like you who jump to wild conclusions based on a single piece of flimsy evidence because chances are you would still go on trying to sustain this weird narrative anyway.

    This isn't 2016 anymore. Nazis and white supremacists don't operate in hiding. They're in seats of major power. Believing they're secretly in control of a niche gaming market based on an email and a nonchalant response is just cringe behavior from people who need to touch grass.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Daniel Berntsson is the co-founder of Mullvad, a highly regarded Swedish VPN service. That reputation is likely about to take a hit, though, since we've just learned that the guy donated 5 million kronor (around €450,000) to the Swedish far-right party Örebropartiet.

    And don't go thinking this is just a rumor - Berntsson confirmed it himself by email to the journal Flamman, which broke the story: "it's a personal donation from me."

    Those 5 million kronor represent roughly 72% of everything the party took in during 2025, and it's also the largest private donation made to any Swedish political party that year. That's not nothing. And 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."

    https://korben.info/en/mullvad-cofounder-funding-far-right.html

    It wasn't that long ago we learned that the Mullvad cofounder was using his money to fund a far right party trying to kick out all immigrants. We can absolutely still learn new things about people, even if there are a lot of Nazis running around out in the open.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Is there literally even one other time in the entire history of their company that they've shown anything that suggests sympathy towards white supremacy? Hanlan's razor applies until there's at least one other use of a questionable emoji

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