I had a friend tell me off for making fun of Gorby because, literally "people disagree with you about him, how would you feel if people made fun of figures you like?" and when I said I deal with slander on a grand scale every day he said and I quote "so when its people you agree with its slander, but when its your opponents its true?"

like holy shit bud you just figured out what beliefs are. A person agrees with the people on their side, and disagree with people on the other side? who would have thought. I mean wow a communist views Lenin as good but Gorby or Reagan as bad? But the people who call for your arrest like those guys