Beware: Kony 2012 is a SCAM

[GeorgiaAvenger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oYpzVA5lRwI

Spread this video far and wide across the internet!

[onlyrp]

better solution : never donate to charity.

[GeorgiaAvenger]

better solution : never donate to charity.
Not really. Just don't get scammed.

[QuickZ06]

Best Solution, getting RON PAUL elected!

[onlyrp]

Not really. Just don't get scammed.

you can't get scammed if you hold on to your money, there's no such thing as saver's remorse (there is, but not here for sure)

[onlyrp]

Best Solution, getting RON PAUL elected!

getting Ron Paul elected and Kony will no longer be a problem, because obviously Kony got in power because of US intervention....right?

[Drex]

This video is awesome

[Feeding the Abscess]

getting Ron Paul elected and Kony will no longer be a problem, because obviously Kony got in power because of US intervention....right?

Well, foreign aid, agricultural subsidies, sugar tariffs, and the drug war have all crippled Africa, so... in a sense, yeah.

[Feeding the Abscess]

This video is awesome

I prefer Molyneux's take, personally. Easier to share his; he gets a little riled up, but he's not screaming the entire time.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QUY2qlnQ4po

[Rothbardian Girl]

getting Ron Paul elected and Kony will no longer be a problem, because obviously Kony got in power because of US intervention....right?
I don't really think so, at least not directly. Admittedly, I haven't read much on the situation, but the conflict between the LRA and the Ugandan National Army seems to be a fight over resource distribution at its very core. Northern Uganda seems to be lacking in resources (the LRA is primarily from northern Uganda, from what I can understand), so all the wealth that may be in Uganda is concentrated in the southern part. The Ugandan government has basically adopted a policy of supporting southern Uganda's economy while essentially ignoring the northern part.

When the European powers partitioned Uganda during the age of colonialism, they apparently didn't take into consideration the already-existing divisions among linguistic and cultural lines between the north and south Ugandans, so this is another example of arbitrary lines being drawn on a map that grouped historically antagonistic people together.

However, perhaps on a larger level, we can say that US intervention caused economic disruption in other African countries, perhaps making it harder for the north Ugandans to stop depending on agriculture as the primary feature of their economy. I don't really think US intervention directly led to the situation Uganda is facing now, though.

[MelissaWV]

you can't get scammed if you hold on to your money, there's no such thing as saver's remorse (there is, but not here for sure)

I don't know about that. There are people who wish they'd been kinder, more helpful, more generous. I just "donate" locally or to people I know pretty well. That takes the guesswork out of it. I also don't donate anything I'll miss.

[WilliamShrugged]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvqFi_HRPmk&feature=context&context=C464d914ADvjVQa1PpcFMbYq9Jv6lQA6OZLtTsVL3Y 9iDLuzmaYZs=

[ZanZibar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X--fBS4Gqn8&feature=uploademail

[chudrockz]

While I agree with the guy in the video in the OP, he REALLY needs to lay off the coke.

[reagle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DO73Ese25Y

[Griffith]

Just a weird way Americans have for an idea to get things done.

Step 1 Make someone a celebrity
Step 2 Activate empire to take them down

[onlyrp]

anybody who is unhappy that Kony campaign only spends 30% on the actual efforts and has a 70% overhead, ought to demand the political campaigns, PACs and other grassroots efforts which you donate to, are better than that. They are not always.

[onlyrp]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X--fBS4Gqn8&feature=uploademail

abortion and murder are evil, but the government doesn't belong in your house or womb.

[Feeding the Abscess]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X--fBS4Gqn8&feature=uploademail

How many times has she turned you down? :P