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someone on r/cth pushed back on my lib takes on Maduro, while I was mostly just lurking and a bernie lib at best, and that made a surprisingly big impact on me, realizing I cant just trust NYT and NATOpedia to be factual, let alone unbiased (I was already past that)
Convincing well meaning questioners is often possible IMO, though they have to take the initiative to ask the dumb questions and research the answers... the people that are socially on the fringes of the community but dont quite "get it" yet. Outsiders who hate everything you stand for? No way