One of these times they will be right and you will never hear the end of the time they were first to recognize the start of a cyberattack.
When telcos get compromised again, the attackers should just take it down in service of this moronic fallacy.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/china-cyberat...
It works both ways, a lot of people also take the "nothing ever happens" position and it is true that most of the time "nothing ever happens", so by taking that position, they're right 99% of the time and sound smart
Your post reflects another online observation. With the rise of online sports books, this sort of predictive doomerism has flooded almost every team's online comment section. It no longer feel like fandom or community in the same way. Just lots of voices that will be glad to say, "I told you so," in the loss and crickets with the W. Wish there was some accountability mechanism for all the negative noise broadcasted into the channel.
You know what they say about a stopped clock: it's wrong 1,438 times a day.