If you want him to stop ranting around you, there are steps you can take. You can't change him, he has to think he needs to change before he'll be open to doing so. What you can do is leave the room every time he starts talking about something negative. If he asks why, say that you don't want to have to listen to him speak so negatively, and have better things to do. Don't say it as if he's wrong and bad and should want to change for talking negatively, simply state it as a fact; you're just not interested in listening to it.
Since he's great in so many other ways, you should be able to spend plenty of time with him when he's not talking about conspiracies, and if you show him that you aren't going to listen to such talk then you'll have even more quality time with him. You can't change what he says, but you can change whether you're around to hear it.
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