Plus I am half Sinti, a demsoc, panromantic and nonbinary. If this was a nazi bar, I wouldn't be here.
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People do misuse the term "tankies" a lot and it is annoying. But people like diva go "no true leftist" a lot more than liberals do. I cannot fathom why they would use a political center that would put 95% of people as right wing. I guess it fulfills the classic meme of leftists' arch enemies being people who agree with 80% of their views. And everyone seems to throw around "nazi" in a way that makes it hard to take them seriously.
Anyway, I do dislike resorting to defederation outside of extreme circumstances. I don't know about sh.itjust.works, but world defederated from lemmygrad after an excess of hate speech and calls to violence, so I can accept that as justified. The fact that they are still federated with ml despite unaligned values gives credibility to that. I think hexbear was more from trolling, which I would prefer be handled by mods and individual user blocking but I can understand that at a certain point that becomes unpractical.