re: More ammunition to hate Austin

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because the US Army is a major sponsor of the event this year. Oh, the humanity. All in an effort to support Palestine.

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This seems rather idiotic on multiple levels. 1) the US Army isn't currently involved in the conflict, 2) the US Army is not a policy maker; it goes and fights the battles it is instructed to fight. Those decisions are made by politicians like Brandon. 3) the reason cities like Austin exist and can host music festivals like SXSW is in no small part due to the prior activities of the US Army. 4) I'm sure Bibi will reconsider the Israeli position on Palestine after hearing that a bunch of second-rate bands pulled out of a music festival in a mid-sized city in Texas over sponsorship by a US government agency that hasn't been involved in the Israeli-Palestinian land dispute since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.