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I think you should actually talk to him. Do avoid calling him out, but ask him a few questions. From my experience, right-winger usually recognize that there are things that are fundamentally wrong in society. They often get to an inch of attaining class consciousness before concluding "It's the minorities' fault" or something like that. If he doesn't already believe that, it shouldn't be hard to convince him that capitalists are bad (if not capitalism as a whole). Try to focus on the filthy rich ones first, lest he become defensive. Avoid focusing on the individual characteristics of capitalists, and more on their behavior as members of a class.
If you've done some reading, it shouldn't be hard to find more plausible reasons for society's ills than the ones he was taught. Just take it slow, seed some doubt in him and let it grow on its own. If you give him a good basis, he might very well reach a close to communist conclusion on his own, which will implant those ideas much more firmly than if they'd been fed by an outsider.
However if he's the billionaire larping kind, I'm afraid there's nothing I can say to help you.
Thanks. I will try talking to him about it. I was more so worried he might immediately go into the "gays gotta die" territory like a lot of the trumpies around here.
I do agree about right wingers being on the precipice before straight up twisting into believing something else. Maybe I can find something there.
Just so tired of the same rhetoric everywhere and now it's literally the apartment below lmao