KONY 2012: The movement to end Joseph Kony

[The Titanium]

@CityRPG
EDIT: @deathrider


"you would have known if you had cared"

It does not work like that.

You need to be able to know something before caring about it, that's just loving cause and effect.

How do you care about something you're not aware of!?

Don't blame people for not knowing things.


By the way, we sent like, 100 advisors? OH stuff WE GETIN INTOA  WAR NOA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!1111 (fuk dos kids  i don wan ma MONEYS!!!$$$$ to lost.....,,,,,.)

[Ad Bot]

[CityRPG]

"you would have known if you had cared"

Where the forget did I say this? I'm obviously for the movement you dipstuff.

[rockslide26]

Sieg Heil

[Böltster]

the creator was just on morning news over here and he answered the criticism about the 1/3 funding going to africa or whatever. he basically said that this isn't following the traditional charity model and they value education and awareness as the most important aspect of the project. basically the aim is to make people care, from that governments will be forced to act. this isn't a "pay and we'll give it to africa" campaign

so i'm still all for this.

[Rainbow]

one of the child soldiers should just be an hero and shoot kony

[snot2]

I made my tf2 spray the Kony poster

[The Titanium]

Where the forget did I say this? I'm obviously for the movement you dipstuff.

oh
my bad

OH
oh so deathrider wrote that
i meant deathrider
sorry

[Camera]

oh
my bad

OH
oh so deathrider wrote that
i meant deathrider
sorry

"What have I done?!"

[Kilser]

Thank god.

[Nickelob Ultra]

tl;dr:  a really well edited 30 minute video manages to persuade thousands of young adults within a few days to start giving a few hundred times more forgets about a problem that's been ongoing for years.

Before you begin, I'm not against the idea of making Kony famous for his infamy.  I'm not against taking down one of the world's largest war criminals and I'm not against protecting the innocent and vulnerable.  I just find it really loving stupid that almost everyone on Facebook and Twitter is suddenly flipping stuff over it, but ask them about it maybe the day before they heard it and they'd go "LOL child soldiers!!" (I only say this because we actually had an author of a book about child soldiers in Uganda speak at our school in an assembly last year) or "yeah that sucks but we got other problems on our plate right now (gas/foreign policy/etc.)"  Even I didn't know who the hell this guy was until yesterday evening.  I thought the title "Kony 2012" was going to be something funny, and by the first 30 seconds of the video I thought it was going to be about American politics and our government just by the dramatic intro.

I don't think most of you are into Facebook, much less Twitter, but if you look at them within the last two days you'd notice a huge loving surge of Kony awareness.  Regardless, I'm still glad that people are rallying together worldwide to put this guy to justice.

[Poopsicle]

Don't know bout you but I would approve of him.

Didn't watch the video, I just did.

[CityRPG]

The message of the video, beyond that Kony needed to be stopped, was that ordinary people have the power to make a massive difference in their world now thanks to the Internet.

The reaction has only validated his point. Arguing that the basis of the movement's momentum is silly because we've just now seen it is really dense of you. People will only pay attention to what is shoved in their faces, and this guy shoved someone really bad in everybody's face, and at the same time gave them a solution. We were shown a problem, and a solution, and what you (Joe Blow) can do to help out. That's all it takes.

There's nothing stupid about it.

[Nickelob Ultra]

The message of the video, beyond that Kony needed to be stopped, was that ordinary people have the power to make a massive difference in their world now thanks to the Internet.

The reaction has only validated his point. Arguing that the basis of the movement's momentum is silly because we've just now seen it is really dense of you. People will only pay attention to what is shoved in their faces, and this guy shoved someone really bad in everybody's face, and at the same time gave them a solution. We were shown a problem, and a solution, and what you (Joe Blow) can do to help out. That's all it takes.

There's nothing stupid about it.

a problem that's been ongoing for years.

Specifically, a problem that's been also advocated for those ongoing years.  You're treating it as if it's a completely new problem, and so is everyone who is reacting to it.

This is just my response.  I know you're just begging for negative attention and all, but it warranted a serious explanation.  But this is it.

[CityRPG]

Specifically, a problem that's been also advocated for those ongoing years.

I realize that, but it's never been as well advertised as this. It's never been given a face, there was no public enemy, there wasn't the idea that we can do anything about it. America's isolationism was an inhibiting factor since before WW2. We idly sat by and let millions of jews get torched before deciding to act because most people carry the idea that America is America and should take care of itself and nobody else.

You're treating it as if it's a completely new problem, and so is everyone who is reacting to it.

Literally nobody is doing this. They're treating it like a really old problem nobody ever talked about and people are disgusted that this has been going on for three decades and has recieved a millionth of the media coverage aimed at the Kardashians in the last year alone.

This is just my response.  I know you're just begging for negative attention and all, but it warranted a serious explanation.  But this is it.

You're so full of stuff. You prance around as the angsty, psuedo-intellectual anti-follower and stick your grubby loving fingers into issues just to try and make everyone look less intelligent than you. You've been doing this for years.

You are provably wrong here. You misunderstand the upset that people have. You're speaking against a movement because you weren't the first on the bandwagon. forget off and die.

[Teneksi]

Well, of course, the whole purpose of this video and movement is to use networking to spread awareness much more widely than ever before. Take it from being something you might hear about once or twice to something you're seeing all over the place. I think that's being accomplished quite well, and I find it cynical to resent the surge of reactions it's causing.