I gave my self a brain aneurism reading the comment section of a COD video on YouTube. I came very close to replying to a bunch of people, but it just felt futile. You would have to unpack so much propaganda, cover so much history, explain dialectical materialism etc. to even get them to consider that maybe communism or the USSR weren't pure evil.
Maybe it would set one or two people down the road to questioning things, but it's just not worth that kind of effort. Starting to feel like the only way to convince people in a way that matters and is effective is to have socialist organizations in their lives that are positive and then the receptiveness of explaining those types of things to them will be much greater than just one comment on an internet thread.
Lol I was arguing with some people under that horrible Animaniacs russophobic propaganda video, and there were a bunch of people saying shit like "HA, I WONDER WHEN THEY'LL HAVE THE BALLS TO TAKE ON CHINA!". I replied something to the effect of "yeah so brave to shit on the country everyone is already circlejerking against" and someone told me "Try to find any article in any major publication that is about China and calling them out that isn't about COVID, and then come back and say that". Like, wtf, I legit don't understand how someone could just post that so confidently. YouTube commenters are something else.