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Target Locator go brrrrrrr

"Death is Just Around the Corner.*

Well I grew up in the client-state of a petro king with a complicated take on things like human rights, But baby that's the sacrifice, for bringing joy to the world

And I learned young how the west was won, with Christ's big heart and a bigger gun But it wasn't enough so we took the moon Because nazi rocket science too, can bring joy to the world

The war on drugs, this righteous cause To clear our streets of criminals, now civilized by an opioid, so the Sackler family can enjoy Spreading joy around the world

New York City, the world loves you and retribution was surely duе To the zealots who brought you hell, boy thе heroes in Langley taught them well How to infiltrate joy into the world

Can’t we all just get along like Amazon and Raytheon Coming together to make a drone To bring us lunch and kill their sons in a synergistic 2-for-1 Ballistic joy to the world

Please stop resisting all the joy in your world Just a car full of celebrities singing about the joy in your world

A string of bad luck, in this final turn, we gathered around and watched our cities burn “Who could have possibly predicted this?!” said everyone

So we'll boldly venture into the black, guided by a Grimes soundtrack We'll liberate some foreign stars and stick a flag on the face of mars There’s beauty in starting again, patient zero of original sin As the mantra rings across the land “how clever, look at us, we've done it again!”

We're bringing joy to whole new worlds You must admit we've certainly got a knack for bringing joy To whole new worlds In time these aliens will learn to love the joy We bring to whole new worlds

We're bringing joy to your world You’d better hope you don't have cheap bananas or else we're bringing joy to your world You’d better hope you don't have dead dinosaurs or we'll bring joy to your world You’d better hope you don't have big plans or else we're bringing...

What it isn't is an actionable blueprint to end "US Democracy"--as if democracy was even the dominant trend in the US republic--but it isn't nothing. It does tell us where the id of future GOP staffers actually is, and what incoherence in right-wing ideologies and interests needs to be papered over by an otherwise incoherent grabbag of ideologically opposed policies. Trump likes his demagogy much vaguer. But we also need to look beyond these immediate concerns and interests and see the long-term trends that are being exposed like lipstick traces.

Interesting stuff, I don't always agree with Varn but always think he's interesting and frequently ends up making some cogent insights on political economy development and labor relations and what's going on in major liberal unions in the US and envy how well read and broad his theory knowledge is. Sean KB from The Antifada is really good for that too.

"Fuck movies."

Recently have been going back through the Death is Just Around the Corner podcast and been marinating in a lot of its themes, and found some of MSJ's music digging deeper into everything I could find about the podcast and its topics, and this song he did about the JFK assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald is really beautiful imo.

Cool fan made remake project of Lego Racers in development. Some of the physics on the boosts and turning look kinda janky and stiff, but the dev said they'd work in it and it's still a one person work in progress and looks really cool to me, I loved that game as a kid and always thought it and Diddy Kong Racing were underrated and way more fun than MK64. Customizing your own minifig and kart and winning new building blocks was so cool, and the item system with upgrades and having specific items other than boosts factor into the design of the track's shortcuts was awesome. Soundtrack was full of cute goofy shit that I loved too.