Many on this site did. People who are now mods called Hamas and Hezbollah fascist on October 1, 2023. They were upvoted and the person they argued against was permanent banned.

https://hexbear.net/comment/4036177

In addition, people who have defended Mamdani, AOC, Platner and Sanders and electoralism generally remain a large part of the userbase who only sour long after the obvious occurs.

https://hexbear.net/post/6442067

Just search Mamdani or Fetterman or Platner in search, sort by old, and you'll see what I'm talking about. Originally these people were popular to mildly controversial and anybody calling them out was seen as a "crank".

There was contentious threads on Platner on this site with struggle session rainbow lines and hundreds of comments. People arguing seriously that he didn’t know about the Nazi tattoo he got in Croatia.

https://hexbear.net/post/6495410

Are we going to look inwards about this type of chauvinistic behavior? Can we reflect or just continue being smug and pretending we were always correct and didn’t repeatedly ban and ostracize the people who were actually correct.

But I will never let the overwhelming majority of the western left and progressive liberals forget this.