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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[–] spectre@hexbear.net 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

From what I can tell, you've been putting in the work out on the federated side

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Thanks! That's actually why it's kinda surprising to see the dbzer0 mod team soften their views on Marxists, I try to leave dbzer0 alone but have gotten into arguments with the admins before.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Speaking from experience, nothing makes a budding leftist seriously investigate the facts of Marxism like being cast out and designated a communist enemy by others. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think we'll see an accelerated realignment now that db0 is officially part of the...uh, tankie quad bike. Like it or not, they're with us now.

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

I'm still of the mind that dbzer0 has a while to go before being fully outcast by the libs and fash, but I do think it will accelerate the alignment, you're right. My "multipolar Lemmy" theory I made a year or two ago may finally come true.

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

I... Love.... ~~Democracy~~... Federation...

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

Beautiful.

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

Just need a few more instances and we can finally get those tank treads and really start tankieing all over the place!

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I notice liberals offer a lot of upfront resistance to heterodox viewpoints, but they like being smug and correct so they'll take the opportunity to stew on it and come around (at least in part), but it takes like actual weeks. I also know this because it's how I sometimes interact with my own liberal tendencies.

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago

Makes sense! I do get people thanking me over dms from time to time.