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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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

the uyghur genocide is something that exasperates me.

send me some fucking proof. i can't believe we got an almost orwellian dystopia in gaza and even that's producing irrefutable proof. satellite images of entire neighbourhoods leveled.

somehow with uyghurs libs are always shifty when it comes to proof. endless huge text and msm articles about how bad it is, but never a single credible picture.