lol, no. No one has ever been banned from .ml for "criticizing Russia." Even the communist admins of .ml have no love for modern Russia which is a capitalist country, they just know that throwing every single working class Ukrainian person into the meat grinder is the best way forward. And "tankies," as the above commenter is using the term, are just people who recognize that history existed prior to February of 2022.
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I can't help but hope that if someone writes about this removal on their substack or something, that article can then be posted on reddit. The conversation in the reddit thread would then be about reddit banning discussion of platforms that apparently threaten theirs, which should be even harder for them to justify banning the meta discussion of that fact. It would be nice if this little removal ended up having something of a Streisand Effect on reddit, exposing more people to the existence of Lemmy than the post they removed had been.
TBH I don't feel like I know enough about the details to be anything but agnostic at this point, I just know I would not be surprised in the least if the U.S. military (usually via Ft. Detrick) origin theory did turn out to be real. There are some users here who I respect that do find it very plausible or even likely, and that alone is enough for me to not want it relegated to "a theory we do not entertain at hexbear." I share your suspicions. I'd also be fine to see the theory totally shot down. But I can't help but hate the idea of there being an official hexbear line of flat denial, you know?
It was definitely a 
comment, but that's not always a bad thing. I think many people actually don't know that was the original meaning of the word, and while it's too late imo to try to use the word 'meme' that way, it is a powerful and potentially useful concept that I wish we did have a more exclusive term for. 
Reagan was the sitting US president that literally ushered in neoliberalism! He was the quintessential liberal. Just because you've been raised (I'm guessing in the US) to believe in the false dichotomy that liberals and conservatives are polar opposites, this is in fact not at all true. "Conservatives" are just one branch of liberal, not their antithesis. Reagan was a hardcore liberal, may he rest in piss.
Upvoting for the edit. It's rare to see people doing self crit and changing their position after having it explained to them why their initial position is wrong. I wish I saw it more often. 
I can see where there may be some classist connotations with the insult "loser" but it is categorically not the same as a slur like the one OP was called. "Loser" just doesn't have the sort of splash damage (or history) that an actual slur does. There's a reason why this site will ban a user on the spot for calling someone else, even the most vile chud, the f-slur, but "loser" can be tossed around without much issue. But I do agree, it's always good to examine these things and even an insult that seems innocuous can have some baggage that might make it worth reconsidering its use.
While totally understandable, that just plays into the atomization feedback loop. It was good that you stopped to help people, especially strangers. I wish more people were willing to do that in this ever worsening individualist-diseased society. Next time the people who need help when you're in a position to give it may be fully deserving of it and appreciative. I hope you don't let this bigot be what keeps you from helping others who might need it. Don't let her reprehensibility erode your kindness.
resort to crude remarks about someones percieved sexuality
It's worse than that. A slur doesn't just denigrate you as the immediate target, it is a word used as a tool of oppression against an entire marginalized group. If she had just said "are you a loser?" or something like that, she'd be an asshole sure, but whatever. "Are you a [f-slur]?" makes her not just an asshole but far worse, a bigot.
It's a joke from a bit account. Don't worry about it, I'm not up on it enough to quite get it either.
Take those two sentences and swap out "religious people" with people of any number of bad beliefs that we would not tolerate to see why that is not really a helpful statement.