I don't want to spoil Marty Supreme (2025), but there's a provocative line delivered by Kevin O’Leary (yes, the Shark Tank guy):

"I was born in 1601. I’m a vampire. I’ve been around forever."

It's the surface details problem: people post nice sounding things on the internet but don't think about them and do the nostradamus thing of predicting everything because caused by everything.

If you predict a corrupt cartel in "the US" will do a thing, then on a long enough timescale you'll eventually be right in general but wrong about every significant detail.

(also the people with this opinion don't seem to do anything with it - it doesn't appear to motivate them to vote, organize, think critically or come up with compromises - they simply turn out to belittle people on the internet while actually acting to normalize new excesses).

> You know those people have existed since practically forever, right?

Yes.

> You learn to tune it out and then you never notice if they start being less wrong.

Speak for yourself. I have not tuned them out, I notice them a lot.