How To Live Successfully Alongside Stupid People

Member-only story How To Live Successfully Alongside Stupid People Surviving the stupidity pandemic. October 27th, 2025. Van Holloway, one of Donald Trump’s African Americans, offers a reality check to anyone stupid enough to think Trump’s $250 million ballroom is just another ego-stroking, money-wasting vanity project: Y’all really mad at a ballroom that’s gonna cost $250 million, that Trump is paying for himself, and y’all wasn’t mad at a basketball court that cost $376 million? And we paid for that sh*t? […] Do your research! And sure, even before doing your research, you might wonder how anyone could believe that a basketball court cost $376 million, you might note that Trump’s gold-encrusted ballroom will now cost over $600 million, more than twice the original quote, and that taxpayers will foot at least half that bill, you might even have done the twenty seconds of Googling required to learn that Obama’s basketball court cost $76,000, over 3,000 times less than Van claimed. But hey, Van has a right to his opinion. March 16th, 2026. “A.I. accelerationist,” Marc Andreessen, takes time out of his busy schedule to correct anyone stupid enough to think that self-examination is a well-established, psychologically healthy practice: …if you go back like…