I fucking hate living here. The culture is poison. The economy is a fucking disaster. The education is designed to leave a huge portion of the country illiterate. Every single atom of it is white supremacist. The land is all stolen. The capitalists are completely above the law. Fuck cars. Fuck America,
“Oh, I don’t know about that” is a far more productive disagreement than actually confronting whatever horseshit they’re saying, it lets you segue into more nuanced discussion of issues where you cloak explicitly left politics in a veneer of “common sense” rhetoric.
If you can cite the saints and canon of US civil religion (founding fathers, originating documents like the constitution, Jesus, that sort of thing) as justification for your position it’s like arguing on easy mode and they’ll agree with almost anything you say.