True, but let's not pretend that we actually found any substantial WMDs. We found 34 tons of mustard gas. At the time, the US had the most VX gas in the world.
Every single Palestinian American has either had their parents/grandparents displaced, or were displaced themselves, by the 75 year occupation since the Nakba. They are intimately connected to the genocide. That's like saying we shouldn't do anything about the Holocaust because Jewish Americans aren't a big voting bloc.
Content moderators are superexploited. These employees primarily work from African countries like Kenya, so there's a whole second layer of neo-imperialism that I won't get into right now. They're given poverty wages, sometimes as low as $1.30/hr. Because they're content moderators, they have to look at images and read descriptions of traumatic events without respect for mental health. OpenAI, Amazon, and Facebook have engaged in aggressive union busting tactics for these workers as well, though workers were still successful in organizing one of the largest labor unions in Africa.
You're probably out of luck trying to convince this person of your opinion. However if it comes up again and you want this person to walk away, I'd recommend mentioning the horrible working conditions that content moderators have to go through. Contrarians don't like unassailable facts.
What it seems like you're saying, both in your previous comment and this one, is that certain people cannot fall into a cult because effective propaganda wouldn't be effective.
You're still not immune. You've been given tools to identify something as propaganda, but propaganda works not just because people lack those skills, but because they weren't using those skills when they encountered it. Propaganda can come from anywhere, so unless you're always fact checking everything everyone says, you are not immune to propaganda.
How do you think cults operate? A cult of personality requires insane amounts of propaganda. The type of propaganda that the largest news network in the country provides. The type of propaganda that is effective at reaching vulnerable and disenfranchised people into believing hateful ideology. There have been many smart people that ended up in a cult, because that cult's propaganda was effective to them.
Interesting, what was the browsing experience for each? Aside from opera, which I noticed you mentioned was the worst of the 4