About The Kony Video
To all those people out there who think sharing/liking a video is actually going to do something, it's not. Posting on the internet =/= action so to those people spamming the damn video all over the place thinking they're actually helping, stop because you're not.
P.S. don't buy any merchandise/donate to the invisiblechildreninc, they aren't a non-profit organisation and their donations are only a fraction of their profits e.g. 1%.
March 7, 2012
22 Comments • Newest first
[quote=Roy8484]the bullies are idiots to publicise themselves assaulting someone in the first place and by doing so are pretty much giving themselves up to the police. alternatively with kony it's not new news at all, the government is well aware but chooses not to act upon it.[/quote]
The majority of the public obviously wasn't aware until recently. We'll see what changes in the future. I'd rather do a lot and have it have no change than to have done nothing and tell oters to do nothing and have them have your mentality. You're worse than the people you crucify.
I agree. This has gained far too much media attention, besides the US has known about Kony ages ago, it's just that not many of the public had known.
The only way issues in this world will be solved, are by effort.
Let them try, let them succeed or fail.
If you're not a supporter, just don't follow it.
There's no need to completely put others down for believing they are doing the right thing.
[quote=hirrho]Way to ignore my post. The FBI was after megaupload for a long time. That's a way different crime. I'm on the subject of violance. As in, the beating and child abduction. Most people on this forum can back me up that by spreading the video of the beating that we made a difference. Oh wait, blah blah blah fbi blah blah ignores rest of post. There, I made a "to long; didn't read."[/quote]
the bullies are idiots to publicise themselves assaulting someone in the first place and by doing so are pretty much giving themselves up to the police. alternatively with kony it's not new news at all, the government is well aware but chooses not to act upon it.
[quote=Roy8484]yes they don't do anything. when megaupload was shutdown anonymous ddos'd the fbi website but what did that achieve? nothing. megaupload is still down and the fbi website is back up.[/quote]
Way to ignore my post. The FBI was after megaupload for a long time. That's a way different crime. I'm on the subject of violance. As in, the beating and child abduction. Most people on this forum can back me up that by spreading the video of the beating that we made a difference. Oh wait, blah blah blah fbi blah blah ignores rest of post. There, I made a "to long; didn't read."
[quote=Roy8484]yes they don't do anything. when megaupload was shutdown anonymous ddos'd the fbi website but what did that achieve? nothing. megaupload is still down and the fbi website is back up.[/quote]
Way to ignore my post. The FBI was after megaupload for a long time. That's a way different crime. I'm on the subject of violance. As in, te beating and child abduction. Most people on this form can back me up that by spreading the video of the asian beating that we made a difference. Oh wait, blah blah blah fbi blah blah ignores rest of post. There, I made a "to long; didn't read."
[quote=lololZombiedogs]They helped to convince the senate and congress change their stance on SOPA and PIPA[/quote]
sopa and pipa never had a chance to go through, it was supported by a small group to begin with, media just hyped it up like usual.
[quote=LeBrann]Sharing does spread things around and if it goes to someone that has a heart, that person will spread the awareness, if you say it hasnt spreaded, how do you know about it and everyone else in this thread.[/quote]
it hasn't raised awareness. we all knew this was happening in african nations it's not something new to us, it's been this way for many decades. we aren't going to do anything about it and probably never will because it's not in the interest of the government.
[quote=hirrho]>Types that sharing a video does nothing.
When people posted the 6 on 1 ( how ever many it was.) Asian beating we got all of the people in the video that did the beating behind bars. Huh, but I guess you're right. The people of the internet don't do anything.[/quote]
yes they don't do anything. when megaupload was shutdown anonymous ddos'd the fbi website but what did that achieve? nothing. megaupload is still down and the fbi website is back up.
[quote=Roy8484]To all those people out there who think sharing/liking a video is actually going to do something, it's not. Posting on the internet =/= action so to those people spamming the damn video all over the place thinking they're actually helping, stop because you're not.
P.S. don't buy any merchandise/donate to the invisiblechildreninc, they aren't a non-profit organisation and their donations are only a fraction of their profits e.g. 1%.[/quote]
>Types that sharing a video does nothing.
When people posted the 6 on 1 ( how ever many it was.) Asian beating we got all of the people in the video that did the beating behind bars. Huh, but I guess you're right. The people of the internet don't do anything.
[quote=NewbZealand]We appreciate your purchase. 100% of the money from your purchase goes to the area of greatest need, including our protection and rehabilitation work in Central Africa and spreading awareness about the conflict around the world. Visit http://www.invisiblechildren.com/protectionplan for more details. If you would like to do even more, the TRI program is our recurring donation fund. It allows us to be certain that we will be able to help children recover from their experiences with the LRA long after the LRA has been disarmed. sorry what?[/quote]
how stupid can you be to actually buy into that?
[quote=Roy8484]P.S. don't buy any merchandise/donate to the invisiblechildreninc, they aren't a non-profit organisation and their donations are only a fraction of their profits e.g. 1%.[/quote]
We appreciate your purchase. 100% of the money from your purchase goes to the area of greatest need, including our protection and rehabilitation work in Central Africa and spreading awareness about the conflict around the world. Visit http://www.invisiblechildren.com/protectionplan for more details. If you would like to do even more, the TRI program is our recurring donation fund. It allows us to be certain that we will be able to help children recover from their experiences with the LRA long after the LRA has been disarmed. sorry what?
Better than doing nothing and complaining about it, plus people are donating and rasing awareness
And they are a non-profit organisation, you just obviously haven't bought anything or you would know.
They want awareness because they know that the American government will not do anything if there is not enough people supporting the action. Like it said in the video, the American government will not do anything without the support unless it benefits the country.
About the donations, they may still make money off of it, but is still some sort of donation. Most people who realize this will probably still donate knowing that some of their money still goes to the cause. It's better to donate something than nothing.
Also it's being spread all over the internet is because people stand by most of the time. They want to change that. So what if it's a band wagon? Look back on history; look at the bystanders; look what happened. Hitler was able to cause the Holocaust. King Leopold dismembered tens of thousands of people in the Congo. History repeats and we don't want that to happen again.
[quote=xenspyder]Actually it does. Awareness alone is enough.
The whole point is to get him known enough so that the government can take care of him. Or something like that.[/quote]
Joseph Kony is already on Forbe's Top Ten Most Wanted List. He's been a wanted man for two decades in Uganda.
Last year, the US authorized ~100 soldiers to provide on-site advice and assistance to the Ugandan government (but non-combat)
Kony is already well known enough. Spreading awareness to the general public in the US is a useless gesture other than to collect donations (which are useless because the conscripted children can't be helped unless Kony is dead and the Lord's Resistance Army splintered or disbanded.
And no, the US does not need another military conflict to solve Uganda's problems. The US is not the answer to every humanitarian crisis in the world.
Read this. Semi-informative.
http://hichui.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/kony-with-a-bit-of-phony/
[quote=HalfPast12]You can't think of this as just spam, like Occupy, if people actually WATCH the video they will understand exactly why something must be done, hell I'm going to try to start a group in my university that will help find ways to raise money and contribute to this cause.
@Bluex3 Way to miss the point completely.[/quote]
politics generally is full of lies and seriously you can do whatever the hell you want but at the end of the day it's going to amount to nothing, minus your effort. it's a nice placebo to be "involved" with an issue and feel like you're helping humanity by posting this around but the reality is unless you actually go over there and do something physical you're not doing anything at all.
[quote=DatingAdvice]Yeah, I just don't get how people seriously think that hey, they're really making a change by sending other people to assault people they find morally objectionable, funding it with other people's money while they just repost things and really think they're making a change without spending more than a few bucks the whole time. It's like "um, okay? You haven't cared for the past ____ years of your life, what makes you so passionate right now?"[/quote]
That is the problem. Why now? There is something fishy...
@HalfPast12: sure it's the right thing to do but sadly, that's not how the government works. all of this spam over the internet at the end of the day will do nothing to actually bring action to the situation.
@above, they're making a truckload of cash from merchandise sales now because of stupid people who think buying a t-shirt with a half-arsed message will actually bring about action.
[quote=HalfPast12]Have you not watched the video, they already COVERED THAT. Obama ALREADY sent troops out there. The point is to raise ENOUGH awareness so that for the first time they will actually do something thats beneficial to another country, not because it will beneficial to ours, but because its the RIGHT thing to do. I have faith in this cause and the more people we get to actually watch the video rather than blog and repost it the more I feel this will have an impact. I'm getting as many people as I can to do something about it, call their senators, anyone in power to actually do something to help.[/quote]
OBAMA'S MESSAGE HAS NO PROOF THAT IT IS REAL. I could forge a message like that. Even you can.
This is what I think. There is no hard evidence to prove any of this.
[quote=xenspyder]Actually it does. Awareness alone is enough.
The whole point is to get him known enough so that the government can take care of him. Or something like that.[/quote]
do you honestly think the government is oblivious to something like this? there's no point for them to intervene because there's no monetary benefit to them.