i've been having some convos with for lack of better words, normies more recently again and i've had a string of people just have NO IDEA how many countries the US has either overthrown, attempted to overthrow or have influenced in some way. Usually it all starts from explaining how the US is inherently a very right wing country and always has been. i've talked to a lot of different people about shit kinda like this for years and it's kinda wearing me down how little anyone knows anything about so much shit the evil empire has done. like i actually feel like the Charlie Day always sunny conspiracy board meme sometimes just carrying on a conversation, referencing some events or whatever. idk if anyone else feels this way sometimes, i just felt like venting a bit cause it made me feel actually bad in a way that i especially didn't like and felt like, i guess, alone??
i've been there before, i gave up after around 10years. it wasn't worth the useless circle reasoning that kept happening, there was practically zero benfits from doing it. if they are closed minded enough, all it does is create friction. you can give them your perspective but then just leave it at that unless they genuinlly want to hear why you believe that. i got other family that were much more respetive to hearing about theory or doing like a meta analysis of culture war bullshit. however aside from that, if you have to interact with these people a lot and likely will continue to interact with the, there is an arbitrary threshold i feel like where you just have to lean off and forget about it. a lot of opinions and beliefs just don't matter in this world when you're just talking to a few people, you cannot teach an old dog new tricks (as they say.)