@BowsacNoodle I have cracked him before with some topics, but its a rapidly self healing wound. My current theory is that on the odd occasion where he has no choice but to agree, his internal monologue tells him that the consequences of acting on this freshly adopted opinion are far too yucky icky nasty to accept and therefore it's the morally correct thing to sleep it off and wake up the next day back at his last autosave with his old opinions still loaded up.

For example, we once went down a massive rabbithole on race and representation which started on his insistence that aborigines should be represented by aboriginal politicians and anything less is unfair and probably racist. We followed this the entire way down, like whether migrant groups should be entitled to their own ethnic representation when they establish ethnic enclaves in white countries, and finally landed on whether white people should be afforded the same.

He eventually conceded that yes, white australians would be best represented by white politicians. I was half expecting him to add "and thats why we cant let it happen", but this guy isnt really a frothing anti-white ghoul, he just doesnt see why he should be worried about other ethnic minorities getting a leg-up over whites in power politics because us whites have it so good already. Its just the RICH whites we have to punish. Grrr.

Its an extremely unserious position which he shares with the "rich people" demographic of entitled boomers he constantly professes to hate and, ironically, i would argue that in some ways it makes his fundamental assumptions about the world closer to the white supremacist position of european exceptionalism than the civilisation-destroying faggot commie algorithm slop i know he absorbs his opinions from.

To put it in other terms, he's complaining about boomers pulling up their big, golden ladder behind them while demanding that the much smaller ladder the he and I have to share must be given away to foreign people who havent yet figured out how to build their own ladder, instead of passing it down to our children.

I even likened his position to being an opaque and nebulous inheritance tax applied by other means, and his response was "i think we should have inheritance taxes for sure, it would prevent wealth accumulation among the rich".

You can try and try and try to untangle that gordian knot comprised of all the various threads of his regurgitated, feel-good positions, but they're all so tightly bound together into this emotional class-based dogma that he'll have tangled that first thread back up by the time you've picked apart the second.

The only sword that can slash through that knot is an overwhelming shift in public opinion. The only times i've seen his views change have been when the consensus flips and the moral courage of wielding the majority opinion emboldens him to do so.

When covid began and i was concerned about this mystery virus supposedly ripping through China, he thought i was acting crazy for buying masks. When the pandemic really kicked off and the lockdowns began, he thought i was acting crazy for not wearing a mask at all times in public spaces, even when it was becoming abundantly clear that they weren't doing jack shit for the kind of disease we were all trying to avoid.

It would be futile for me to expect that I can reason him out of his unreasonable positions but as someone who evidently loves to complain about things at absurd length, arguing with him over politics is like a giant ball of black tar heroin to me.