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Kony 2012

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Stitch, Mar 8, 2012.

  1. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    What are everyone's thoughts on yesterday's meme that saw Facebook walls get inundated with a link to a video calling for awareness of Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army?

    I'm not a fan of awareness campaigns, and Invisible Children has attracted controversy because of the small percentage of funds that directly helps people, and instead goes to funding a couple of filmmakers.
     
  2. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Mmmmmm Kony.

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  3. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

  4. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    I thought this thread was going to be about the amusement park where they hold the hot dog eating contest.
     
  5. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

  6. Gehrig

    Gehrig Active Member

  7. Greenhorn

    Greenhorn Active Member

    Kony is the guy Limbaugh defended last year by saying that Obama committing troops to Uganda in order to "wipe out Christians."
     
  8. 21

    21 Well-Known Member

    My niece called me yesterday about this, completely hysterical about why the US is doing nothing to help these children, and demanding I call someone in Washington to DO something.

    I had no idea what she was talking about. Today, it's everywhere. That viral video has arrived in my email at least a dozen times.
     
  9. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    Damn kids on social media... next thing we know they will be changing a presidential election...
     
  10. Double J

    Double J Active Member

  11. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    58,000,000 views in four days.

    While you are watching that video, there are 250,000 people watching it at the same time.

    Jesus
     
  12. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    I went to dinner at my sisters house tonight and while eating my 10 year old niece asked me if I heard about Kony killing millions of children. My first thought was David Cone and the idea that she might be mixing it up with Cones proclivity to kill kittens. I told her it must not be a real story because i did not read it anywhere and if it was real we would have heard about it by now. She then proceeded to pull up the you tube video that her save the world liberal social studies teacher showed her class.

    Obama needs to fire up a drone now and end this. Nothing good will come of it. Soon we will see Bob Geldof and Bono giving a concert, Oprah back on TV and those useless UN Blue Hats.

    I thought that Jack Bauer had taken care of this guy a few years ago.
     
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