Bands pull out of SXSW over U.S. Army sponsorship, Gaza war
thehill.com
Multiple bands and musicians scheduled to perform at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival are pulling out because of the U.S. Army’s “super sponsorship” of the event, and America’s ongoing support of Israel’s war on Hamas.
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art and military go together like cat poop on the bottom of my doc martens.
Yeah, although the military pumps a ton of money into Hollywood movies. And it works. They love the fact that there are two hit Top Gun movies glorifying the Air Force.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93entertainment_complex
Top Gun is the Navy.
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Also, to reply to the other person, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with the military supporting a blockbuster about fighter pilots, or about the military generally, in a fictional story. Filmmakers know the deal, they can't shit on the military while getting it's help, but it's disclosed in the credits and almost always patently obvious. There are far more insidious films like Zero Dark Thirty or Argo, or even a show that I love, Band of Brothers, that are mostly propaganda about real events to rewrite history to hide America's flaws. That's what we need to worry about, not the military helping out with Top Gun or Transformers.
That's the important thing here.
As a former service member (w/ the majority of important adults in my life having served as well) it for sure fuckin works, you're 100% correct.
...did you join the military because of Goose
Nah, I joined because I had shit grades and no job.
Nah, because of duck duck.