Sensible Erection | Sorry Uganda, you're on your own

Thursday, 15 March 2012

quote [ Almost exactly one week after viral video campaign Kony 2012 alerted millions of viewers to the horror of Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony...the world appears to have lost interest. ]

Although it’s really sad that a ton of people got interested and couldn’t help, I’m feeling some schadenfreude over the fact that all the people have to come to terms that to do something meaningful, they actually have to DO SOMETHING.

Does anyone know if something like this has happened before? Have people all over the world gotten this worked up over something so serious and lost interest this fast before?

I don't want to be all "Get off my lawn!", but are the younger generations that are growing up with smart phones, Twitter, etc. actually developing detrimentally tiny attention spans? Are older people that are gravitating toward this new tech changing as well?

On a tangent: In my own family, if I try to send one of my younger relatives an article that involves scrolling the page, they view it as long-form and don't read it other than the first paragraph--and they don't even THINK about reading something with a PAGE 2.

While this is a politics post... You want your BC covered in AZ? Be prepared to tell your doctor you have a massive flow.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/15/politics/arizona-contraception-controversy/index.html

"I personally don't have a moral objection to contraceptives, but I respect the people that do," state Rep. Debbie Lesko, one of the Republican sponsors of the bill, told CNN affiliate KTVK-TV in Phoenix.

Screw you, Debbie. Screw you. Grow some vag lips and stand up for women.

[politics] [by bltrocker@5:48pmGMT] [+3 Funny]

Comments

rndmnmbr said @ 6:09pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:3 Insightful]
Surprisingly, complex political problems in war-torn and resource poor areas are not casually solvable. As a matter of fact, solutions require far more effort than most people are willing to give. Also, marketing companies masquerading as charities don't stick it out for the long run.

dangerm00se said @ 7:42pm GMT on 15th Mar
Well to be quite perfectly honest, there's no good guys here. The Ugandan government has this habit of allegedly doing terrible things to its own people and others, while the LRA has this habit of allegedly doing terrible thing to its own people and others and the only people who can put a final solution to either of these problems is NATO & USA which of course, have a habit of allegedly doing terrible things to their own people and others.

sanepride said @ 7:46pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:4 Funny]
As they say in Northern Uganda...

Hasa Diga Eebowai.

Naruki said @ 2:21am GMT on 16th Mar
Sure you didn't just quote Jar Jar Binks?

Eru said @ 6:09am GMT on 16th Mar [Score:1 Insightful]
No, he was never that funny.

rndmnmbr said @ 11:18pm GMT on 15th Mar
Actually, in afterthought, there actually is a simple solution: build a thriving, growing local economy, and kick the shit out of any jackass who decided taking from people is easier and cheaper than buying from people.

Implementing this solution, on the other hand, hoo boy...

sanepride said @ 11:52pm GMT on 15th Mar
Alas...
the world is full of problems with theoretically simple solutions that are practically impossible to implement.

sacrelicious said @ 10:45am GMT on 16th Mar
then obviously we should make the world not full of problems with theoretically simple solutions that are practically impossible to implement. now don't you feel a little silly?

sanepride said @ 3:58pm GMT on 16th Mar
Damn hippies.

xgp007 said @ 6:13pm GMT on 15th Mar
Wait, but isn't the "big deal" surrounding this the fact that he has already pretty much been dealt with, and that much of the footage in the video was about 10 years old, and that now the LRA now has less than 300 members?

bltrocker said @ 6:51pm GMT on 15th Mar
I thought that the fact that Obama was involved in trying to dismantle the LRA somewhat recently meant that it was still somewhat of a threat. Maybe I'm misinformed, though.

sanepride said @ 7:28pm GMT on 15th Mar
If your information is based on the 'Kony 2012' campaign, then you probably are misinformed, or at least under-informed. Everything I've read since (much of it from NGO's on the ground in Uganda) suggests that this viral campaign, while obviously well-intentioned, is a huge over-simplification of far more complex issues.

bltrocker said @ 8:20pm GMT on 15th Mar
I was thinking more from articles here and here

sanepride said @ 9:16pm GMT on 15th Mar
...and I was thinking of articles like this, this, and this.

bltrocker said @ 11:58pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:1 Good]
What? We aren't on the same page at all. I was pointing to articles that aren't associated with the Kony 2012 campaign that I read that made me believe that the issue is still considered important. This was to show that I wasn't educated through the video. My post is about the ultimate failure of the Kony 2012 campaign, of which your articles reflect nicely, only on the African side. To be clear, I did not support the campaign from the beginning.

sanepride said @ 1:45am GMT on 16th Mar [Score:2]
Sorry, I got the impression you were lamenting the failure of the campaign. If I misunderstood, apologies.

foobar said @ 6:41pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:1 Underrated]
He's not even in Uganda.

Average FaceBooker said @ 6:46pm GMT on 15th Mar
Well, duh. Why would he be in South America?

Easily trollable teenager said @ 10:56pm GMT on 15th Mar
Uganda's in Africa.

conspiracy theorist said @ 11:00pm GMT on 15th Mar
That's what they want you to believe.

KingPellinore said @ 6:46pm GMT on 15th Mar

cb361 said @ 6:55pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:1 Insightful]
Unless Joseph Kony has a facebook page, or a website for lulzsec to DDOS, there's no much the internet can do about him.

Mad March Harris said @ 6:57pm GMT on 15th Mar
I guess the upside of being on the side of people who don't care about populist phenomena is that once it stops being popular there's a lot less obnoxious gloating to deal with. I would be happier to have been completely wrong about this being a pointless fad of mindless slacktivisim but not surprisingly I wasn't. Although before the final nail is put in this story, I would like to know if there was any noticeable blip in aid directed at Uganda because of it. Even a small one would show some sort of benefit for the very little actual effort put into it by the millions of "supporters".

clumsy_juggler said @ 7:36pm GMT on 15th Mar
The other interesting thing will be seeing the financial statement from the Invisible Children NGO next year.

lilmookieesquire said @ 7:00pm GMT on 15th Mar

* (The Asshole FKA Morris) said @ 7:06pm GMT on 15th Mar
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/worldview/stop-kony-screening-tour-cancelled-after-ugandans-react-with-outrage/article2370125/

drd69 said @ 7:16pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:1 Insightful]

dangerm00se said @ 7:44pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:1 WTF]
Pretty funny to me that Socialism is synonymous with anti-genocide/anti-rape and anti-war while it is simultaneously the worst thing you can be in America.

Mad March Harris said @ 7:58pm GMT on 15th Mar
I thought being Muslim was the latest threat to the universe that is the United States? Socialist/Communist/Marxist have all been dropped to second string insults.

dangerm00se said @ 8:11pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:1 Informative]
my post makes even less sense when you realize that this image macro doesn't have socialist anymore. earlier versions did.

Nationalsozialismus said @ 6:36am GMT on 16th Mar
Socialist and social activist can have vastly different connotations.

ethanos said @ 7:31pm GMT on 15th Mar
who?

themanwhoeatsSchadenfreude said @ 8:13pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:1 Funny]

bltrocker said @ 8:21pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:1 Insightful]
Always cracks me up

sanepride said @ 9:54pm GMT on 15th Mar
Speaking of schadenfreude...

lalanda said @ 10:00pm GMT on 15th Mar
Fucking hilarious.

arrowhen said @ 8:23pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:1 Funny]
That's what we get for curing all those diseases with colored ribbons. Now we're out of ribbon colors and we'll never be able to solve another problem again!

unga-bunga said @ 12:19am GMT on 16th Mar
I think puce is still available, but they're saving it for something really special/terrible.

Ronin.ca said @ 9:05pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:3 Informative]
A friend works for an NGO and she sent me this:

http://matadornetwork.com/change/7-worst-international-aid-ideas/

foobar said @ 2:52am GMT on 16th Mar
They're a bit underinformed re: #4. There are financial instruments you can buy to do that sort of thing.

eIfish said @ 9:59pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:2]
Websites shouldn't even have a page 2.

That's what the scrollbar is for. It's very good at it.

devilsad said @ 11:21pm GMT on 15th Mar
Multi-page articles on the web exist for only one reason - more ad impressions. They're a dumb idea in every other sense.

Moleculor said @ 11:17pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:3]
It's an anti-gay fundie-Christian "charity" that only spends 37% of the money it takes in doing actual work on the ground, that is attempting to eliminate the most significant threat to an anti-gay government (one that was attempting to make the death penalty the punishment for being gay).

And they sold out of everything they were selling as part of their scam.

Successful scam was successful, and they probably tricked a ton of hapless idiots into supporting gay murder.

rndmnmbr said @ 11:20pm GMT on 15th Mar
I wasn't aware of the anti-gay angle, but yeah, this set off my scam alert when I first heard of it.

Ankylosaur said @ 12:22am GMT on 16th Mar
Invisible Children Funded By Antigay, Creationist Christian Right

CommanderCherkinov said @ 1:08am GMT on 16th Mar
Shit, Vegeta blew up an entire PLANET and no one posted ANYTHING about it on Facebook.

rndmnmbr said @ 2:25am GMT on 16th Mar [Score:1 Insightful]
Yeah, but it was all over Myspace.

CapnSilver said @ 5:51am GMT on 16th Mar
Which planet? Freiza blew one up.

blacksun said @ 6:56am GMT on 16th Mar
You run a kickstarter to hire some Blackwater mercs. Problem solved.

Yeah, crowdsourced assassination. Pretty scary, but isn't that what we're talking about here anyway?

kichijoii said @ 10:04am GMT on 16th Mar
Blackwater's no good. We want to take out the LRA, not random civilians.

radioelectric said @ 11:24am GMT on 16th Mar

sanepride said @ 9:22pm GMT on 16th Mar [Score:1 Funny]
Well OK, Here's an interesting new twist to this story.

dietcoke said @ 2:39am GMT on 19th Mar [Score:-2]
I agree,euros should go do something instead of sit here and whine.

EPT said @ 3:15am GMT on 19th Mar
Does anyone know if something like this has happened before? Have people all over the world gotten this worked up over something so serious and lost interest this fast before?

Yes, and about this exact same guy, too.