http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc&sns=fb
Inspiring stuff, well worth watching.
Sick to the teeth reading about it on Twitter and Facebook.
Then the campaign has clearly worked
30 minute video and people become social activists. Would sicken your hole. I'd say Bush wish he did a video in 2001 on Saddam.
Same people are sharing the link and going out buying these posters to put them up on the night April 20th.....probably stepping over a homeless person while they are doing it.
"Slack-tivism".......sitting at a computer thinking you're Che Guevara.
Quote from: The Gs Man on March 08, 2012, 08:39:47 PM
"Slack-tivism".......sitting at a computer thinking you're Che Guevara.
The gaaboard is full of it!
Nearly 40 million views on youtube.
Fair play to him, you can't say he hasn't made a difference to peoples lives for the better.
And he is right about how that sort of social network based activism is changing the way things work and influencing government.
Surely people should be able to see the potential this has for future politics. Not enough just to vote every four years and expect things to go your way.
(http://i.imgur.com/K3mgn.jpg)
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Quote from: Gazzler on March 08, 2012, 07:49:05 PM
Sick to the teeth reading about it on Twitter and Facebook.
You're not the only one.
Hmmmm, I'm usually more cynical about these things.
So what's really going on then?
Team America - World Police. Sticking their noses where they don't belong for decades! f**k yea!
Quote from: thejuice on March 08, 2012, 09:53:40 PM
Hmmmm, I'm usually more cynical about these things.
So what's really going on then?
http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/
As sick to the teeth as people may be of it, can you really disagree with trying to stop the man causing more harm???? Its easy to slag off but I think what their doing is great. So many cynics on here criticising people trying to make a difference.
Well it got my teenage son talking about it and got him looking into the whole issue of child soldiers etc so if it helps him and his mates to try and do something positive I'm all for it
Quote from: Declan on March 09, 2012, 09:29:18 AM
Well it got my teenage son talking about it and got him looking into the whole issue of child soldiers etc so if it helps him and his mates to try and do something positive I'm all for it
Ditto in our house but the more I watched it the more cynical I became about the motive behind it.
Quote from: Declan on March 09, 2012, 09:29:18 AM
Well it got my teenage son talking about it and got him looking into the whole issue of child soldiers etc so if it helps him and his mates to try and do something positive I'm all for it
My point exactly
Quote from: southdown on March 09, 2012, 10:56:35 AM
Quote from: Declan on March 09, 2012, 09:29:18 AM
Well it got my teenage son talking about it and got him looking into the whole issue of child soldiers etc so if it helps him and his mates to try and do something positive I'm all for it
My point exactly
Not sure of the backgroud to this campaign but it might also enlighten your son also how the media can minipulate agenda's out there.
Get him to do a bit more research on the issue and the viral itself.
My Da always talked about 'the propoganda box in the corner of the livingroom' everytime the news was on.
He obviously passed on his cynicism to me.
QuoteHe obviously passed on his cynicism to me.
Well I'll let my lad discover his own cynicism - As I said he's already started to look into it and that's a huge positive for me - If you can't be idealistic when you're young when can you be?
http://keepittrill.com/online/2012/03/kony-2012-scam-stop-supporting-invisible-children/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/9131469/Joseph-Kony-2012-growing-outrage-in-Uganda-over-film.html
http://onemorelevel.com/game/kony_the_game
If the youth of today watched the feckn news, they would have heard of child soldiers long before this. Reality tv is a crime, children, teenagers and early 20's should be forced to watch at least 7 hours of news or current affairs a week.
Like the earlier comment about 'slacktivism'!
Saw on fb:
'If you're posting about Kony, I feel bad for you son. He snatched 99 kids and your status saved none.'
Anyone who didn't know about the Lords Resistance Army before this and is suddenly indignant about it should be be shot for being a stupid, uneducated, uninformed c**t......this has been going on for years why are you only copping on now ?
Personally I blame c**ts like Seafoid and give her dixie......as Orwell might say .....all suffering is equal but some suffering is more equal than others ::)
(Stolen from a mate) -
Kony...putting the "infant" in "infantry"! ;)
Quote from: Mike Sheehy on March 14, 2012, 07:14:18 AM
Anyone who didn't know about the Lords Resistance Army before this and is suddenly indignant about it should be be shot for being a stupid, uneducated, uninformed c**t......this has been going on for years why are you only copping on now ?
Personally I blame c**ts like Seafoid and give her dixie......as Orwell might say .....all suffering is equal but some suffering is more equal than others ::)
Shit, I can see a video on the way. Thats it, i'm away on the run to the Cooley mountains....
Whoops
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/jason-russell-san-diego-invisible-children-kony-2012-142970255.html
QuoteA co-founder for Invisible Children was detained in Pacific Beach Thursday for being drunk in public and masturbating, according to San Diego Police Department.
What a w**ker
Bony 2012
What have Jason Russell and Pee Wee Herman got in common? (http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/16/kony-mastermind-arrested-for-public-masturbation)
Quote from: give her dixie on March 14, 2012, 12:20:41 PM
Quote from: Mike Sheehy on March 14, 2012, 07:14:18 AM
Anyone who didn't know about the Lords Resistance Army before this and is suddenly indignant about it should be be shot for being a stupid, uneducated, uninformed c**t......this has been going on for years why are you only copping on now ?
Personally I blame c**ts like Seafoid and give her dixie......as Orwell might say .....all suffering is equal but some suffering is more equal than others ::)
Shit, I can see a video on the way. Thats it, i'm away on the run to the Cooley mountains....
That is what I find so troublesome about lads like you "give her dixie". You spam this board with your views on the situation in the middle east yet you seem to have very little time for the issue of arab-aparteid/ethnic cleansing policies toward black Africans. There is no consistency. I understand that hating jews (oh, sorry..of course I meant to say Israelies ::) ) is an easier, more populist position to take (especially on this board) but, you know, every once and while you could spare some of that righteous indignation for other "lesser" causes ::)
Mike, if you think I was going to fall for a multi million dollar produced video calling for US troops to invade a country that is "Oil Rich" looking for someone who isn't even there, then think again. Bush and Blair would be higher up my list of war lords that need brought to justice, compared to Kony. And Obama is doing a pretty good job of building up a list of innocent people getting slaughtered on a weekly basis. Considering the US record on killing innocent children, wankers like Jason Russell have no room to be making videos.
So basically what you're saying Mike is that a person can't express indignation at one global injustice without expressing indignation at all of them? That's bullshit.