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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[–] NPa@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From what I can remember they also 'misplaced' a comma in the data so the forced abortion rate looked 10 times higher

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well they don't publish a forced abortion rate, just an IUD insertion rate. But yes they fucked the math in a basic error to make it appear that something like 80% of all IUD insertions in China during that period were in Xinjiang.

[–] NPa@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

yea thats the one