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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[–] AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The size of that community is counter-intuitive. Liberalism, as the ideology of a system that atomises society, validates any attempt at fracturing communities. This is one reason why they're in love with quintillions of ideological labels to describe people's inclinations just right. The result is that person A feeling B's 3% titanium tax goes too far and B feeling A's 3% titanium tax doesn't go far enough won't feel in a community together.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago