You can just say "I didn't read the Brookings article and some of the summaries of it were over hyped and inaccurate." instead of making weird personal attacks.

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Also I dont think it is splitting hairs to differentiate a claim about what is happening *now* and what someone's model say will happen in the future.

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I am not being *aggressively wrong*. I pointed out that you gave an inaccurate summary of an article, and provided a screenshot of the source article demonstrating the inaccuracy.

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> We only know the second thing is happening. No, we can confirm that the first is happening by doing stuff like "reading primary sources".

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Given that we can read the materials and see that people are conflating different concepts, we *know* the former is happening. The latter could *also* be happening, but a compelling case would have to involve some amount of accuracy.

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