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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[–] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 39 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What are the chances that any of those people have ever talked to an actual Uyghur living in Xinjiang and gotten their thoughts and perspectives on the matter? I mean, I know liberals would rather tokenize them for their own ghoulish agendas than to actually listen to a minority and treat them as equal individuals, but still.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Need to spread that famous uyghur dude in douyin that goes into omegle to make westerners look dumb

[–] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 31 points 4 days ago

Nah, that guy's clearly a CCP agent brainwashed into spreading ebil COMMIE PROPAGANDA thank god Adrian Zenz and Radio Free Asia are both trustworthy sources /s

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

Was thinking the same thing.