I really thought smug ideology man would be a character bit where the comics would be incredibly bad takes and there would be a smug guy involved. The audience would find humor in him being so smug while also just wrong. These are just your takes which are mostly reasonable and I don't get why it's called smug ideology man unless you're the smug one?
You say valid but they tried to share a vice article. I think the ban was justified but the mod had to give a believable reason /s