Greg Abbott tells musicians "don't come back" to Texas
Greg Abbott tells musicians "don't come back" to Texas
Thye Texas governor defends U.S. Army sponsorship of SXSW festival by telling musicians "don't come back" after they pulled out of the festival.
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Why is the U.S. Army allowed to spend taxpayer money on concert festivals?
Recruitment. They were sponsors so that people think it's cool to be in the army.
Same reason they do flybys and giant flag-things and shit at sporting events.
We have a literal propaganda division that helps with movies like transformers as long as they have a say in how the military is portrayed in them.
And rarely you get to see gems like this from the movie Sgt. Bilko (1996):
If only that movie wasn't terrible.
I had the displeasure of seeing it in the theater.
Maybe if the US Army had cooperated it wouldn't have been so terrible! At least it provides a chance to see Phil Hartman.
The only way to make that film not terrible would be to not make it at all.
Or, I suppose, blow up every copy before it was distributed. The Army could definitely have helped with that.
Generation Kill also didn't have support from the US Army. All the US military gear show was either Jordanian or CGI.
Thanks for the reminder to watch that series. I liked The Wire and We Own This City by David Simon so I'm assuming it is a more thoughtful show than the title and imagery suggests.
It's real good and let's just say there is a reason the Pentagon isn't sponsoring this one.
I actually just finished it, wish there were more episodes. There was a lot more humor than I was expecting which really helped to offset the depressing aspects. Yeah, I really can't imagine the government supporting the show aside from it portraying the US as an absolutely dominating force.
From a casting angle I think it's kinda funny Jarhead had a Sarsgaard and Generation Kill had a Skarsgård. I also kept thinking the Rolling Stone writer (Lee Tergesen) looked like a relative of John Michael Higgins.
The actually cool way of increasing recruitment would be to pay higher salaries and increase the work place safety, with tax money taken from crying billionaires.
False. Theres nothing cool about army recruitment.
It makes me want to become an army recruiter for video game armies, instead of trying to sleazily recruit high school kids to go get murdered or maimed across the planet I use all the same rhetoric army recruiters use to make the the military seem cool but I recruit kids to play video games while dressed up in camo instead.
My pamphlets are of video games where you can do cool military stuff without actually killing anybody or getting hurt. Hey check out Arma 3, you can use all those cool looking jets and tanks to nerd out and blow stuff up and THEN when you are done you can just turn it off and go do something else because it’s a fantasy.
Framed on my table is a picture of Iraq after 20 years of brutal occupation and war with stats on the amount of civilians dead, infrastructure destroyed and American servicemen killed. Next to it is a framed picture of Blood Gulch after 20 years of brutal multiplayer matches with a bunch of zeros next to all the same stats.
I also have a “But I Want To Serve My Country” pamphlet which suggests types of jobs and careers that actually serve the country and local community like teacher, nurse, tradesman, social worker etc…
The poster behind my recruiting table says “Just Go Play A Video Game, Joining The Military Is Lame”.
This would be hilarious to do in character as a recruiter from Helldivers 2.
There’s no way you can make fighting for the interests of American oligarchs “safe”, though. Even as advanced as our military is; it still ultimately comes down to putting boots on the ground.
And being the boots on the ground is to walk into a meat grinder.
We could also have a pizza party!
Don't forget VA benefits
Same reason sporting events exist.
There, FTFY. The unfettered truth.
This is just one more step towards Texas looking like Russia. I'm sure this will cause a major backlash and have a ton of artists refusing to play Texas regardless of the venue.
Does this idiot not know how much revenue these fests generate for an area?
It's not about money for Greg Abbott, it's about hate.
I know. It is however about money for the businesses that rely on these festivals for a large portion of their income. They are alienating everyone who doesn't believe the crazy bipolar shit they do.
Those businesses have no place in Greg Abbott's #christofascist #Texas.
It's all about where that revenue infusion goes and who it attracts. In this case, Austin area and more open minded people.
Don't worry, I'm sure they'll get someone like Kid Rock to play, which is what those audiences probably want anyway.
Bruh, this is SXSW. Austin is not a kid rock town.
It won't be at SWSX though.
What do you think Top Gun is?
Or Call of Duty for that matter. Uncle Sam likes em young.
because it's advertising and propaganda.
Because the grinder needs fresh meat.
They also spent money to develop a game for recruitment purposes.
The game is dead now, but in it's peak it was good.
Which one?
It's secretly all of the ones with the US military as the good guys.
America's Army.
They do it at high schools and universities too. It’s really annoying.