Regarding the nuclear FUD, I'm not backing down. We'll never know how much the fear of nuclear was grassroots and how much was turf, but we can know for sure that someone didn't want Americans to have energy independence.

But if trusted leadership told everyone that we were roasting the planet instead of telling them we weren't and that roasting the planet is un-American, you can bet your sweet ass we'd have some green and nuclear energy going by now.

The fertilizer thing is a perfect example. We don't need to extract, refine, and burn nearly as much fuel as we do to get the fertilizer we need. People make the same empty argument about the cheap plastic shit that dominates the economy as if the world didn't exist before cheap plastic shit and couldn't exist after.

https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/20...

It would have been awesome if they provided a source other than just a link back to one of their own BS articles.

> From fiscal years 2003 through 2012, state funding for all public colleges decreased, while tuition rose. Specifically, state funding decreased by 12 percent overall while median tuition rose 55 percent across all public colleges. The decline in state funding for public colleges may have been due in part to the impact of the recent recession on state budgets. Colleges began receiving less of their total funding from states and increasingly relied on tuition revenue during this period. Tuition revenue for public colleges increased from 17 percent to 25 percent, surpassing state funding by fiscal year 2012, as shown below. Correspondingly, average net tuition, which is the estimated tuition after grant aid is deducted, also increased by 19 percent during this period. *These increases have contributed to the decline in college affordability as students and their families are bearing the cost of college as a larger portion of their total family budgets.*

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-15-151?hl=en-US

So using the statistic "overall government funding increased" to debunk the fully accurate finding that decreased state funding resulted in higher out of pocket costs for actual students is the most insidious and corrosive type of lie we have. Because the fact itself is technically true and if you let the reader use their "common sense" to reach a natural conclusion, you can lie without saying the words. And it takes 1 sentence to say the lie and 3 paragraphs and 2 original sources to dispel. It also has the positive byproduct of making the deceived feel very clever. All in all, it's a libertarian think tank wet dream.

Ah yes. In their "about" page.

> In other words, we are conservative/libertarian in our personal views — but unlike many policy and media organizations — Just Facts is devoted to objectivity, and we do not favor facts that support our viewpoints. Instead, we will report any fact that meets our Standards of Credibility, regardless of the implications.

I'm sure this has no impact whatsoever on how they construct a "factual" sentence.

> I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you.

It's like when the bear can't catch the slow guy anymore so he starts setting up traps and finding ways to cut off legs. Now the faster guy actually has to deal with the bear.

Oh, okay. We'll just pretend this makes any fucking sense. Glad that's all cleared up!