They’ve gotten very strange in the past year or so. I’ve seen multiple dbzer0 users, including two admins, do complete 180s on tankie bullshit, and it’s rather bizarre.

My best guess is that tankies offer them a sense of community, which is how many terminally online folk get drawn into it. People who have a deep desire for community will overlook moral issues if invited to be a part of that community, and even adopt, consciously or unconsciously, those positions in order to better ‘fit in’ with the community.

In a time when the real world is more recognizably hostile than ever, or at least for as long as most of us here have been alive (insofar as we are both aware of it and noting that it is backsliding rather than improving), online communities probably seem quite tempting to hew closer to.

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 62 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I always said it was only a matter of time before the social fascists that call MWoG their home would turn on even dbzer0. It’s the classic Nazi bar, they outright fabricate info, erase context, welcome Zionists and other fascists, it was only a matter of time before they got even greedier and started attacking anarchists for being “tankies.”

It’s not a coincidence that they call us “roaches” or “d-s,” it’s because it’s a cryptofash meeting spot.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What's MWoG?

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Meanwhile on Grad. It's a Nazi bar version of Slop.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Ah, thanks.

My mind kept wanting to read it as MGTOW (the online anti-feminist community).

Edit: Shouldn't it be MoG, because meanwhile is one word?

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

Lmao, I can see that! Lotta overlap, I'll bet.