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Liberals and many leftists after Trump took it upon themselves to solve this crisis of historical knowledge by teaching everyone high school civics classes again, thinking this would solve the problem. Rachel Maddow explained to MSNBC’s audience every night that what was happening with the bad orange man was just like when the Communists did us dirty; it’s like it was Back Then again.

The Meaning of Musk's Nazi Salute

Matthew Ellis

Beyond video, there is AI music; one band, Velvet Sundown, had its AI-generated folk song “Dust on the Wind” climb to the top of Spotify’s Viral 50 charts, despite the fact that the band members [don’t actually exist](https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2025/07/08/velvet-sundown-artificial-intelligence-spotify/).

Making cash off ‘AI slop’: The surreal business of AI video

Drew Harwell & Gerrit De Vynck & Shira Ovide & Chris Velazco & Dan Lamothe & Tara & Alex Horton & Nick Mourtoupalas & Eric Lau & Hannah Dormido

To a degree unprecedented in any other social system, capitalism both feeds on and reproduces the moods of populations. Without delirium and confidence, capital could not function.

Capitalist Realism

Mark Fisher

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