Suppose someone said the US had a budget surplus and linked to an article showing the opposite. Should I not correct them?

When we are talking about electricity grid subsidies in France and they bring up EU wide gasoline subsidies that’s a rather clear misunderstanding. I could have gone further and talked about subsidies on a per kWh over the lifetime of a power plant rather than the relatively tivial amounts mentioned to keep already built nuclear reactors operating but that’s likely to go above their head.

As I have told you I don’t actually care about correcting the ignorant. At best I get some dark joy at making some people look foolish.