Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.
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I think it is. To say that you need to perform some arbitrary action or have some arbitrary prerequisite to be a member of a belief structure is silly. I see it as simply being that you are a leftist if you have leftist ideals. Like, you can argue about the applicability of communist vs anarchist vs socialist, because those relate to organizational structures, but to say you can't label yourself as a leftist for a reason that isn't really related to being a leftist is just moral gatekeeeping.
Words mean things, if you don't fit the definition for a political ideology or movement then you're not in/a member of it in any meaningful way, also there's a long and extremely well documented history of US intelligence agencies infilitrating leftists groups so gatekeeping is actually just 100% necessary and anyone who says otherwise is either a moron or a fed
Just gotta generate some more means to divide ourselves!
Yeah, idk, man, those guys that infiltrated leftist groups were fucking stupid and were easily picked out because they were morons that didn't understand why people were leftist. But, sure, you gotta gatekeep to stop those idiots, lol.