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I recently caught my chud family member watching some dumb youtube video about "experts lying about COVID" (yes, chuds are still malding), and like, what's the fucking point anymore?
You can be as gracious, understanding and in good faith as possible, but people will believe whatever nonsense some idiot influencer says is the truth. It makes me so mad, and unable to argue with these people, because their irrationality makes me irrational. Fuck.
Anyway, how are y'all doing? 
Mood. I have a relative who is into aaaaall the "alt right" YouTube stuff and Joe Rogan. He is constantly complaining about wokes and black samurais in video games and all that fun stuff. I have no idea how to talk to him about it other than joking about it and changing the subject. I am a cowardly lib.
We can’t be raging communists all the time, we have to pick our battles, we don’t just charge machine guns while waving our hands and screaming, etc. This is what I tell myself while I am surrounded by people who are either nazis or people who don’t care about nazis.
I have a cousin who is similar and I force dominance by saying "you are wrong and this is dumb" until they change the subject. Somewhat effective? I don't need to communicate past that at least lol
If you want to engage (I do sometimes), you have to meet people where they're at.
Most of my family is poor and they're on that anti-immigration shit. Digging down, they tell me it's because people in the US need help. I try to deflate their reasoning and hopefully lead them to a better analysis on their own.