are there places where this actually happens?

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You fool.

The poster is very correct as he knows full well the quote you are using.

He may well be on the non believer spectrum and taking the proverbial out of the believers.

Im pretty sure hes taking the piss.

"Didn't Jimmy Carter do something very similar when he was Prez? It turned out so wonderfully for the whole world when he got rid of the thugs and helped the totally altruistic Khomeini into power."

Kind of a mute point when he was followed by a president who took no more of a hard line policy against Iran. Of course Reagan said he "had no idea" about the Iran-Contra dealings. Whether Reagan knew about it or not, his *conservative* administration went over congress's heads to sell weapons to Iran and use the money to fund a group in Nicaragua that was guilty of much of the same atrocities you see depicted in this film. Hell, they were supported by a dictatorship in Argentina at the time. And while we're on the topic of Iran, the Reagan administration also sold weapons technology to Saddam in Iraq (an ally at the time) because they were fighting a war against who? Iran!!!
And while we're on the topic of central American conflict, do some research on the School of the Americas in Georgia. It's an institute where Latin Americans were trained in military tactics and then returned home to Honduras, Nicaragua, etc. to commit attrocities against their own people. Whether you have liberals or conservatives to thank for that, I admittedly don't know.

"And liberal heroes like Stalin, Mao Zedong, Chavez, Castro, Che, Kim Jong-il, their successors, and so on never ever oppressed, starved, or killed anyone."

Wait... what??? Stalin and Kim Jong-il are liberal heroes? I mean, okay, there are shirts with Che Guevara's face on them, but Stalin???
Mao Zedong!?! Ahh yes, because liberals have a resounding affection for communist China! When thousands of students were arrested, beaten or killed at Tianamen Square for proposing democracy, do you think liberals were going, "Damn right! Down with freedom of speech!" ?

I may never understand the desire of conservatives to lump oppressive communist regimes who crush dissidence with liberals who are historically, the most outspoken and mobile when it comes to being dissident.

If you're going to assert that all liberals are in favor of communism, than is it okay for me to assert that all conservatives are in favor of Nazism?