KONY 2012

[Frank]

Horseleech said:thrope said:oh my!





Invisible Children Founder and KONY 2012 Star Found Masturbating in Public




This deserves a bump, imo^^^




What glorious times when out of mis-trust for your own common sense you use google to find out if a headline is news or satire just to find out that sometimes, if it sounds to good to be true, it might just be really, really good...





I'll drink to this all night long!








edit:





of course, TMZ already have it on video, it's short (no pun intended) but spicy:

 

[Horseleech]

"But, as Jezebel's own Erin Gloria Ryan put it, "Wasn't the entire Kony 2012 campaign essentially this white guy masturbating in public?""

 

[Frank]

Horseleech said:"But, as Jezebel's own Erin Gloria Ryan put it, "Wasn't the entire Kony 2012 campaign essentially this white guy masturbating in public?""




perhaps it's all a piece of post-modern, conceptual performance art

 

[Danno3000]

The douche quotient in this video of the Kony guy expounding on genocide is unfathomable:











His public masturbation episode is the logical conclusion of this verbal splooge.

 

[DOR]

thrope said:





DOR showing his ass in this thread. just because you fell for the slick video, doesn't mean you have to keep riding for it bro. repent.




I've been away for a bit. But after reading some of the news, I came back to read over this thread.





Here's the deal. My whole point was on how people were shit talking folks that truly want to help or make a difference (Be it this cause, or any other cause or issue for that matter). It seem like some people love to put people down for any reason what so ever. I still stand by the fact that the original video has it's merits strictly due to bringing awareness to issues that should be talked about. Maybe read my posts over again. I wasn't so much riding for the dude or the organization, as much as I was riding for people to bring something positive, instead of using negativity. Bring other positive alternatives, so that people who want to do something in this world have an alternative path to follow.





You're well within your right to call me out or whatever it is you're posting here. But I'm not repenting for anything. Nor should I. I would much rather see a thread posted on the strut talking/debating/etc once in a blue moon (Even if it's misguided) than just talk bullshit/nonsense.





But thanks for coming out and focusing on my ass...

 

[novocaine132]

DOR said:I wasn't so much riding for the dude or the organization, as much as I was riding for people to bring something positive, instead of using negativity. Bring other positive alternatives, so that people who want to do something in this world have an alternative path to follow.










been sayin this to people all week.


lennon/mccartney could be harmonizing on some all you need is love and upon hearing it this place would nail those fuckers to a wall...

 

[Jonny_Paycheck]

If your bar for "doing something positive" that should engender widespread support is producing a kickstarter-esque self-serving video that is widely derided by the very people its purportedly supposed to help, then I would say your bar is slow as to be flat on the ground.








Meanwhile, not a word about Trayvon Martin or Remarley Graham... Oh wait. Those are just kids in the US, nothing to out-exoticise your friends over.

 

[Horseleech]

novocaine132 saidOR said:I wasn't so much riding for the dude or the organization, as much as I was riding for people to bring something positive, instead of using negativity. Bring other positive alternatives, so that people who want to do something in this world have an alternative path to follow.










been sayin this to people all week.


lennon/mccartney could be harmonizing on some all you need is love and upon hearing it this place would nail those fuckers to a wall...




The assumption here is that any effort in a positive direction, no matter how ill-informed, self-serving and misguided is better than no effort at all.





I don't know how many thousands of examples there are in human history that contradict this, but I guess the answer is: not enough for people to have learned anything.





b/w





You do realize that your "positive alternative" in this case = sending money and arms to an extremely shady military, right?





I don't think that's what Lennon and McCartney were singing about.

 

[Frank]

novocaine132 saidOR said:I wasn't so much riding for the dude or the organization, as much as I was riding for people to bring something positive, instead of using negativity. Bring other positive alternatives, so that people who want to do something in this world have an alternative path to follow.










been sayin this to people all week.


lennon/mccartney could be harmonizing on some all you need is love and upon hearing it this place would nail those fuckers to a wall...




this wanker paid himself 90 grand a year out of his "charity" which funds itself by exploiting other people's misery.





and the fitting song for lennon/mccartney to harmonize here would be "why don't we do it in the road"

 

[SoulOnIce]

Jonny_Paycheck said:


Trayvon Martin




This is the most sickening thing I have seen in a long time. The fact that Zimmerman has still not even been arrested is so reminiscent of the horror stories of Jim Crow era lawlessness, I can't even comprehend it.

 

[DJ_Enki]

SoulOnIce said:Jonny_Paycheck said:


Trayvon Martin




This is the most sickening thing I have seen in a long time. The fact that Zimmerman has still not even been arrested is so reminiscent of the horror stories of Jim Crow era lawlessness, I can't even comprehend it.




The 911 tapes make me entirely too angry to be able to discuss the issue without wanting somebody to "Zimmerman" Zimmerman. Fuck that piece of trash.

 

[DOR]

I'm getting at, that it's fine to criticize. My issue is with ridicule or making fun of people who have an honest wanting to help even if all it is, is to bring awareness. I thought sticky_dojah's early reply was a good example of bringing something positive to the discussion with the information on the Breakdance Project Uganda.





Look, I got one of those new ipads yesterday (It was a bonus from work). But there are plenty of issues that are way more news worthy or should be discussed than a new product IMO. The KONY video helps remind people that the world is still filled with scum and at the very least got people talking about something many people never knew happened.





A friend on my fb posted the Kony video a week back and then she was berated by a couple of guys calling her stupid and making fun of her. Then a friend of hers took the guys to task and gave my friend some info on a project she was working on with a school. She's now looking into ways she can get involved with that project.





It's my opinion that there are plenty of people out there who have completely honest yearning to do something outside their small part of the world that surrounds them. For a few the start of that can be just becoming aware of something. But nothing is gained by shit talking them and making them feel like they are somehow wrong for wanting to help others.





Is the video propaganda? Yes. We are all constantly blasted with propaganda in one form or another everyday. Did the video have some major problems with it? Yes, definitely.





But it got millions of people talking around the world. And I think that's a good thing. Will it bring Kony to account for the crimes committed? No idea. But I'm willing to bet that with all the exposure and debate it helps to get people involved with causes that are worthy.





And that's all I was trying to get at.

 

[day]

DJ_Enki said:SoulOnIce said:Jonny_Paycheck said:


Trayvon Martin




This is the most sickening thing I have seen in a long time. The fact that Zimmerman has still not even been arrested is so reminiscent of the horror stories of Jim Crow era lawlessness, I can't even comprehend it.




The 911 tapes make me entirely too angry to be able to discuss the issue without wanting somebody to "Zimmerman" Zimmerman. Fuck that piece of trash.




I read the transcripts last night and haven't been able to bring myself to hear it. This needs to be it's own thread.

 

[DOR]

Jonny_Paycheck said:"doing something positive"




Is this directed at me? I can't tell since your quote is different than what I actually wrote.





If it was, I wrote "bring something positive" and I was getting at it would be helpful to offer people a positive alternative if you believe what's being debated is nothing more than bullshit. I only state that the merit to the video is the awareness it brings to one particular issue.





"engender widespread support is producing a kickstarter-esque self-serving video that is widely derided by the very people its purportedly supposed to help, then I would say your bar is slow as to be flat on the ground."





No.

 

[DOR]

Horseleech said:





You do realize that your "positive alternative" in this case = sending money and arms to an extremely shady military, right?




That's not the type of "positive alternative" I was getting at. I mean more like sticky_dojah's post on the Breakdance project Uganda. Like, you come into the thread and say the KONY video is bullshit and then you offer someone who might have watched the KONY video and found out the the horrors that have gone on over there and genuinely want to help or at the very least, learn more from something with a more honest message.





And a "positive alternative" in that case doesn't necessarily mean arms and guns. I would support an international criminal court using means to hunt Kony down and arrest him and bring him to face the people and families he has committed crimes against.





Which makes me wonder. We have these wanted list of people that commit serious crimes against humanity. Why doesn't the UN have some special forces team to go in and hunt these people down and bring them to justice?

 

[staxwax]

Horseleech said:Winner and runners up in the "Most Likely To Shoot Themselves In The Balls In 2012" contest:

Close enough.

 

[rootlesscosmo]

Danno3000 said:The douche quotient in this video of the Kony guy expounding on genocide is unfathomable:











His public masturbation episode is the logical conclusion of this verbal splooge.




"I wanted to do Hollywood musicals like Moulin Rouge...it seemed pretty impossible to achieve that."





LOL!

 

[novocaine132]

Frank said:and the fitting song for lennon/mccartney to harmonize here would be "why don't we do it in the road"




b/w day tripper

 

[novocaine132]

Horseleech said:


You do realize that your "positive alternative" in this case = sending money and arms to an extremely shady military, right?





I don't think that's what Lennon and McCartney were singing about.




one could argue that both invisible children and the beatles made efforts to stop war.


that's as simple as it needs to be.

 

[staxwax]

1. Make scam documentary


2. Exploit scam documentary


3. Profit


4. Run around town masturbating to celebrate becoming a millionaire overnight thanks to gullible Americans.