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KONY 2012

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yes.
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I highly suggest that you take a little time out of your day to watch this,
Mar 6 2012 1:38AM
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fucking
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oh because i said this was the ONLY issue this was done to.... fuck off
Mar 8 2012 9:25PM
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Edew19
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It just implies that the amount of research that people have done regarding the issue is limited to watching the 30 min video.  Its pretty irresponsible to be up in arms about something without knowing what its really about.

Mar 8 2012 9:41PM
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Steezy_P
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I get what you are saying, for sure. But, what I don't get is why people won't accept people that don't have a lot of background information on the subject.. like why can't they get involved too? The purpose of this is to raise awareness, and to try bring the world together.. as well as taking out Kony. Not whatever the hell some people are thinking about, how they know a lot about the placement of Uganda on a map.
Mar 8 2012 9:49PM
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Mar 8 2012 9:51PM
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fucking
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oh look, another negative article about these people! shocking!!! http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/invisible-children-founders-posing-with-guns-an-interview-with-the-photographer/2012/03/08/gIQASX68yR_blog.html

feel good now, you fucking ignorant hipsters?
Mar 8 2012 11:21PM
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Avifarer
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how the fuck do i view this full size? when i click it it is fucking tiny as shit
Mar 8 2012 11:33PM
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corona
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right click and 'view image' then you can zoom in
Mar 8 2012 11:36PM
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horner
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Go to your local soup kitchen, habitat for humanity, community center, etc, and volunteer every week, month, 6 months, year, whatever. The difference you could potentially make is actually real.
Mar 8 2012 11:54PM
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Sallabillz
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invisible child is a huge troll, so many fucking retards on facebook
Mar 9 2012 2:34AM
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k-rob
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i haven't seen this many white people interested in africa since the lion king was re-released in 3d
Mar 9 2012 2:41AM
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MN_Nice
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Hahahahaha YES.
Mar 9 2012 2:42AM
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.R-Lohin
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CAN I PLEASE STEAL THIS I LOST
Mar 9 2012 2:53AM
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Ian.D
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Oh my god I want to smack that guy so hard. How does IC not see anything wrong with this. They are literally turning a war in africa into a hip clothing line in which 70% of the profits go towards their own salaries and "video production." Good to know that it takes millions of dollars to make one youtube video, fuck Invisible Children.
Mar 9 2012 3:35AM
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easiestEC
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Mar 9 2012 4:32AM
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las.
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Mar 9 2012 4:46AM
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CassiusClay
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Now the kids dig diamonds too? Just because its Africa and nobody knows shit about Africa? bahahahaha. Everything that has happened is incredibly sad; this t-shirt is a joke though.
Mar 9 2012 4:52AM
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Mike-O
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Ugandans say Kony film is 'misleading,' 'too late'

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/breaking-news/ugandans-say-kony-film-is-misleading-too-late/story-e6frg12u-1226295428056?from=public_rss

"There has not been a single soul from the LRA here since 2006. Now we have peace, people are back in their homes, they are planting their fields, they are starting their businesses. That is what people should help us with."

"This paints a picture of Uganda six or seven years ago, that is totally not how it is today. It's highly irresponsible."

Ugandan government spokesman Fred Opolot hit out at the charity behind the film, Invisible Children, saying,
"They are doing it only to garner increasing financial resources for their own agenda."

"While this is a very impressive example of viral marketing, it's raising awareness for a cause that doesn't need awareness," said Scott Gilmore, chief executive of Peace Dividend Trust, a non-profit that focuses on streamlining inefficiencies in humanitarian operations.

"Those 30,000 kids who were kidnapped, this isn't going to un-kidnap them."

Mar 9 2012 6:14AM
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-Mugatu
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Konys putting the infant back in infantry and creating jobs!
Mar 9 2012 7:21AM
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MN_Nice
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Naw dude thats just the company's thing for design. its Diamond Supply Co. and they've been putting photos on shirts with a diamond crop on it. Doesn't mean they're digging diamonds. Just letting ya know.
Mar 9 2012 12:31PM
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J.D.
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Yes, but the connotations when you have African kids with AK47s on a shirt with a diamond silhouette on it are pretty unavoidable and it's kind of a farce. My issue is more with the existence of these shirts and bracelets and so forth, the point being to get people to buy this garbage because they want to be part of the Kony 2012 movement, not because they actually have taken the time to engage with issues confronting the people of central Africa.
Mar 9 2012 12:40PM
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MN_Nice
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Agreed.
Mar 9 2012 12:51PM
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coldcuts69
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Did not read the entire thread to see if this is in there but If you want to form an opinion, this is a very interesting video. Helped me form mine.

Mar 9 2012 1:31PM
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SeanTom
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did you somehow miss the OP?
Mar 9 2012 2:50PM
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Mar 9 2012 3:23PM
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yourthemannowdog
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http://www.mediacentre.go.ug/details.php?catId=3&item=1602

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Misinterpretations of media content may lead some people to believe that the LRA is currently active in Uganda. It must be clarified that at present the LRA is not active in any part of Uganda. Successfully expelled by the Ugandan Peoples Defence Forces in mid-2006, the LRA has retreated to dense terrain within bordering countries in the Central African area. They are a diminished and weakened group with numbers not exceeding 300. The threat posed by the LRA in our neighboring countries is considerably reduced and we are hopeful that it will be altogether eliminated with the help of US logistical support."


Mar 9 2012 3:30PM
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.AR6rider.
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??

Mar 9 2012 3:35PM
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Benji.
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That's fucking ridiculous
Mar 9 2012 3:46PM
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Mike-O
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Could it really be Skweezy... when I saw that the first time, whew, haven't laughed that hysterically many times in my life.
Mar 9 2012 4:00PM
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nacho.steez
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Mar 9 2012 4:07PM
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Anathema
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http://www.visiblechildren.com/
Mar 9 2012 6:41PM
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Anathema
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http://www.visiblechildren.com/
Mar 9 2012 6:41PM
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Anathema
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the one thing i dont get is how so many people can say OMG YOU DONATE TO THEM AND IT JUST PAYS THEIR SALARIES. yeah, no shit. they gotta make a living off of it too. you think that when you donate to breast cancer research 100% of the funding goes to the research itself? fuck no, you're paying for equipment and doctor salaries and organization expenses etc. hardly seems like a valid argument to me.

that said, yeah maybe these guys are going a little overboard with the kony shit. africa is fucked. i think we should just stay the fuck out and let them sort themselves out. they have to be willing to help themselves before we can interfere and try to liberate them our way by our methods..
Mar 9 2012 6:44PM
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.R-Lohin
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This.
Mar 9 2012 6:49PM
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Edew19
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Yup, I have no problem raising awareness.  Hell I didn't know about it before I saw the video either although I wasn't surprised at all given the state of Africa.  Definitly a shitty situation and this guy behind bars or dead would be beneficial.

That being said, I think the movie was a very good piece of propaganda (as intended).  It is a little disturbing that people formulate views and strong opinions so quickly without fully understanding it.  I feel like the director could have made a movie about just about anything and people would have got on board.
Mar 9 2012 7:00PM
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sherwood4099
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I'm gonna put this out there. If you didn't know at the very least who the LRA was and that we have had special forces deployed in Uganda for months, before this video you really need work on reading the news. this shit is normal in Africa, the rape, murder and child soliders span multiple countries, wars and generations. This is the African way and none of you lily white college kids can do shit about it. If Kony is killed it will be because of well trained soliders not Internet awareness.
Mar 9 2012 7:32PM
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thisisastickup
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something's got to keep the population down over there, can you imagine how overcrowded earth would be if africa were a first world continent?
Mar 9 2012 8:47PM
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Mike-O
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We could do a switcheroo, all first world citizens with luxuries are dumped down into Africa for half a century while the denizens of the glorious grassroots continent of the human ancestry get a go on better environments.

Would be a fun experiment, no?
Mar 10 2012 6:35AM
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vauban08
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hooray! I assume you mean "stay out" as in don't exploit the country for natural resources, sweatshop labor and underpriced fruits, vegetables and other food in order to finance our way of life on their backs, right?


Yeah I agree.





Mar 10 2012 6:57AM
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kris.....
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Mar 10 2012 4:13PM
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stoned_sorcerer
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What? No. I mean, planning children is one of the characteristics that differentiate 1st world countries from 3rd w.c. But sure, poverty keeps the population down too.
Mar 10 2012 4:48PM
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.AR6rider.
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What are you guys so worried about? Predator got that motherfucker over 20 years ago.




Mar 10 2012 6:04PM
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sherwood4099
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In America poor people are more likely to have multiple children than wealthy people... According to DSHS
Mar 10 2012 6:34PM
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tspanagel
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I'm going to be the first to jump on the bandwagon that's against the bandwagon that's against the bandwagon that's against Kony 2012
Mar 10 2012 6:49PM
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Wolfgang.
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humanitarian issues = extremely complex
Mar 10 2012 6:53PM
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I don't get it, people say he is absolutely awful and should be stopped, but then they worry about who will replace him, right before they declare him no longer a threat/on his last leg anyways. So what's the problem with the world coming together to try him for what he has done?

Like all these people critiquing the video, if they were just talking about Kony and not the video, they may come to the same conclusions; but they don't need to hate on messenger.

And now Glen Beck says it's George Soros?

Mar 10 2012 10:11PM
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Bill.Nye
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I do think we should stay out of africa in a militaristic sense, but not because "the earth has way too many people right now." That's heartless bullshit, and not true. Especially in Africa.
Mar 10 2012 10:13PM
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You mean how crowded the first world would be? Gotta have someone to push around eh?
Mar 10 2012 10:16PM
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Backyard.Skier
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i lost hardddd.
Mar 10 2012 10:26PM
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SkiThe603
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Really don't like the Invisible Children, they aren't going to be able to change anything in Uganda. It is more or less a lost cause, that sucks to say but the US has bigger fish to fry including; Syria, Iran, and the entire US economic crisis as well as North Korea being very up in the air and Russia defending Bashar Al-Assad's reign.
Mar 10 2012 10:51PM
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