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[Junsu]

omg guise
im so cool
i watch da video
and now im like doing a carwash for kony and for invisible children
its not like the video has complete bull in it
its not like the experts aren't really experts right lol
and like its not like invisible children only donates 35%, right?
its not like this whole kony 2012 hype is for the next presidential election!
lol
yeah
go kony 2012
yolo
wassup
im gankstera

[Pavement]

Wait, so he's NOT running for president?

[Icey Defeat]

Wait, so he's NOT running for president?

I've been trolling with the following line on various websites for weeks:

#Kony2012 for president

[Cyo]

What goal would that be? He has no stated objectives. His only implicit objective is maintaining his own power. It's not like he's publishing position papers on the human rights violations of Uganda, or working towards establishing a more benevolent government.

Just because his goals aren't helping anybody but himself doesn't mean they're not goals.

[Junsu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rU_1jnrj5VI

On Kony 2012: The Visible Victims Speak: Considering that Kony 2012 — the most viral video in Internet history — exploits the suffering of northern Ugandans to raise money, Victor Ochen, a victim of the Lord’s Resistance Army and a founder of the nonprofit African Youth Initiative Network (AYINET), thought it only right that they should get to see it too.

Ochen traveled to the city of Lira, where he and his NGO set up a makeshift outdoor theater so locals could watch Invisible Children’s much-discussed fundraising campaign, and decide for themselves if it helps or hurts.

According to a statement released by AYINET, over 35,000 people attended the screening, many of whom rode in on bikes from neighboring villages. Additionally, some two million northern Uganda residents tuned in to a live broadcast of the audio aired simultaneously on five FM radio stations.

Al Jazeera reporter Malcolm Webb, who was on hand to gauge people’s reactions, filed the following account:

People I spoke to anticipated seeing a video that showed the world the terrible atrocities that they had suffered during the conflict, and the ongoing struggles they still face trying to rebuild their lives after two lost decades.

The audience was at first puzzled to see the narrative lead by an American man – Jason Russell – and his young son.

Towards the end of the film, the mood turned more to anger at what many people saw as a foreign, inaccurate account that belittled and commercialised their suffering, as the film promotes Kony bracelets and other fundraising merchandise, with the aim of making Kony infamous.

A woman Webb spoke with afterwards compared IC’s approach of selling products with Kony’s image to “selling Osama Bin Laden paraphernalia post 9/11,” which she felt would be offensive to many Americans, irrespective of how “well-intentioned” the fundraising campaign was.

Last night’s screening was AYINET’s first and last. It announced this morning that it had suspended further screenings of Kony 2012 in light of the outrage it caused. Wrote Ochen: “It was very hurtful for victims and their families to see posters, bracelets and t-shirts, all looking like a slick marketing campaign, promoting the person most responsible for their shattered lives.”

“Why give such criminals celebrity status?” asked people in attendance, according to AYINET. “Why not make the plight of the victims and the war-ravaged communities, people whose sufferings are real and visible, the focus of a campaign to help?”

Source: thedailywhat

[onlyme]

http://www.nbcsandie...-142970255.html

[Dazz]

[Gibby2]

I'm very disappointed in the Kony project. They are not handling their charity well. Only 30% goes toward the actual charity, which funds the army for god sakes!
\I prefer the red cross.

[likerobots]

i thot you would all enjoy this

[ToxicS]

you guys know the whole kony thing is a scam. the guy who started the "project" it made tons of money off of it. Just saying

[IcedEarth]

I reckon this guy says it all

[ashna]

i've posted this vid afew times on facebook and got many comments saying it's a hoax and they are just trying to make money..
at first i was really happy that ppl are stepping up and being initiative .. and now i'm just confused

[Irradium]

you guys know the whole kony thing is a scam. the guy who started the "project" it made tons of money off of it. Just saying

Good, and indeed very truthful, point, but you realise this was a dead thread, right?

Edited by Russell, 18 May 2012 - 07:38 AM.

[Drakonid]

And you do realize it wasn't drunky mcdrunk the one who revived it, right?

[Irradium]

And you do realize it wasn't drunky mcdrunk the one who revived it, right?

Nope. I thought Toxic would've laboured that point anyway, so... that's my 'excuse'.

[ToxicS]

Good, and indeed very truthful, point, but you realise this was a dead thread, right?

If a thread gets bumped it's not dead.

[Bone]

I don't know which bandwagon is worse, the CAPTURE KONY XOXO one or the INVISIBLE CHILDREN IS A SCAM!1 one.