They’ll talk for half an hour about university reform but the moment you ask “who owns the coal mines” or “where does the lithium come from” they say they haven’t thought about it then they get mad at me when I say the Nordic model is fascist
I can bait the ADHD ones into reading theory by simply using enticing vocab words but idk how to deal with everyone else
In general my approach would be to start where they’re at, find those areas where you mostly agree, but not completely, and keep a long-term dialogue open. Anyone you convince in one conversation is going to be un-convinced by their next conversation with some crank or whatever. They need to do a certain amount of intellectual work for themselves, you should be encouraging that instead of giving ready-made answers.
I think it also really depends on who you’re talking to and what the context is. Is this someone you work with in local activism? A friend of a friend? Someone you want to recruit to your org? Someone you literally just met and want to figure out their current politics?