• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      It’s very difficult to find things for Viggo… I suspect he has employed people at some point that work in removing search results and he’s actively made it very difficult to search for things about him or his views.

      What I can say is that he was anti iraq war when it wasn’t cool to be against it in america. He’s pro-Cuba. He’s pro-Palestine. His wife is Catalan and he’s been a participant in Catalan independence agitation. He supported Bernie back in the peak period, but he’s since called Bernie a warhawk.

      Now, any one of these by themselves I’d say could also make someone a lib. But together? Signs point to him being somewhere left of liberal.

      Googling him is hard as fuck for an A list celebrity. I strongly believe that he has someone actively removing his search results.

      This one is interesting:

      “Yeah, I’ve been called antisemitic and I got so much shit for speaking out against the Iraq invasion, but it was a huge waste of material resources and manpower.”

      https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/05/viggo-mortensen-interview-jauja

      Wearing his “they call me antisemitic” with pride openly in newspaper interviews as far back as 2015. We all know that’s for anti-zionism before it was cool.

      EDIT: Libbiest stuff I can find is some support for Ukraine. Didn’t really said anything other than vague anti-warism and wearing the coat of arms trident on a tshirt though.

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      I’m pretty sure Mortenson is a bit of a Lefty, I remember him paying a visit to Cindy Sheehan when she was protesting Bush jr. He also starred in the Lefty movie Mr Fantastic.

      edit: to clarify, his visit to Sheehan is not libshit. Sheehan was a vocal supporter of the Pink Tide in Latin America, especially Hugo Chavez, Liberals hated her for that.