The answer is probably not, because I doubt I'm going to have any response that deflates a lifetime of American culture and propaganda, but I'd like to know if y'all have made any success.
I ask because earlier today a person I know came to me, asking if I knew about what's going on in Cuba. I answered there's a kind of small anti-government protest alongside much larger pro-government demonstrations. This was immediately flipped as proof of Cuba's tyranny, since a large pro-government demonstration means everyone's afraid of being jailed or executed. I tried mentioning Cuba has a pretty popular government, the vote on the constitution seems proof of that, but that also just gets flipped as proof of tyranny.
I don't know, it was frustrating and I otherwise respect this person. Have y'all been having trouble?
Ask them what THEY specifically can do to make the situation better, even if they believe the situation is genocide or whatever ridiculous stories imperialist media is pushing. Help them come to terms with the fact that the only thing they'd be doing by agitating and spreading those stories is encouraging a coup, and then if the history of countries being couped into fascist dictatorships far worse than anything they had before isn't enough to convince them, nothing is.