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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[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 48 points 4 days ago

Basically libs have a deep desire to love capital and therefore can never admit china might be something's alright or better than the west. So they need to couch their lament in "well china has its own genocide too!" China cannot be allowed to be the good guy, because we the west must be the good guys or else everything they've learned would be wrong and the cognitive dissonance would shatter their feeble little minds.