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Yahoo has just released its top-search lists for 2012, and out in front in the “international affairs” category is Kony 2012.
Remember all that? Back in March, an avalanche of publicity surrounded the leader of the brutal Ugandan guerilla group the Lord’s Resistance Army. A half-hour documentary released by a group called Invisible Children went viral in a way that no such campaign had gone viral.
It went “mega viral,” says Yahoo. “The film became an unprecedented internet sensation, racking up over 80 million views and bringing again to light the dire situation of child soldiers.”
Questions were soon raised about the “Make Kony Famous” /“Get Kony” campaign itself, its tactics, its presentation of the arguments. For many, the lingering image will be of the doco maker Jason Russell, broken under the pressure, bounding naked through traffic in San Diego.
And nine months later, Kony has not been got.
Somewhere in central Africa, he and his henchmen “remain at large”, writes Benjaman Runkle in Foreign Affairs, “and media coverage of the search has become nearly as hard to find as the fugitive himself”.
Even before Kony 2012, 100 “military advisors” had been sent to Uganda to support the search. But while some of his accomplices had been found, still today “no one seems to know where Kony actually is”.
But it is “too soon to panic”, says Runkle, a former US Defense Department official. “Historically, the key to successful manhunts is not troop strength, advanced technology, or favourable physical terrain but, rather, what the military calls ‘human terrain’”.
And Kony’s record of cruelty “including massacres, large-scale mutilations, and the abduction of children to serve as soldiers and sex slaves” means that “local populations have a stake in rooting out Kony”.
Runkle writes:
The Kony manhunt is the twelfth time in US history that the military has been sent abroad to kill or capture one man. Of the 11 previous campaigns, eight were successful, and, excluding the 13-year hunt for bin Laden, the average successful manhunt takes 18 months.
Given that time, and a strategy centred on equipping locals with technology to share intelligence, while exerting diplomatic pressure on key central African states, and all hope is not lost, he says.
Those hopeful for success can take comfort in the fact that the variables that have determined the outcome of past manhunts favour the forces searching for Kony. All it should take to bring the warlord to justice is a practical plan to exploit these underlying forces – and a little more time.
Meanwhile Jason Russell has re-emerged, and has been talking about the episode, his breakdown and recovery, to – well, who else? – Oprah Winfrey.[/quote]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7MCh19igW4[/media]
[url]http://www.listener.co.nz/commentary/the-internaut/whatever-happened-to-joseph-kony/[/url]
And kony 2012 is still a bloody failure.
probably dead.
[QUOTE=ScoutKing;39062836]probably dead.[/QUOTE]
Let's fucking hope so.
Personally I hope he's floating bloated in a river somewhere in the heart of Africa.
I fucking told everyone that this campain was a load of shit and that it would be forgotten about.
But no, i got called a cunt left right an center on facebook and ended up having to block about 10 people.
[QUOTE=WingedAssailant;39062901]I fucking told everyone that this campain was a load of shit.
But no, i got called a cunt left right an center on facebook and ended up having to block about 10 people.[/QUOTE]
U JUST SUPORT CHILD SOLDEIRS U FUKIN MONSTR
[QUOTE=WingedAssailant;39062901]I fucking told everyone that this campain was a load of shit.
But no, i got called a cunt left right an center on facebook and ended up having to block about 10 people.[/QUOTE]
kony is just so lonely, he wants to eat his macaroni and suck on his baloney
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he get arrested for touching his Kony in public?
[QUOTE=WingedAssailant;39062901]I fucking told everyone that this campain was a load of shit.
But no, i got called a cunt left right an center on facebook and ended up having to block about 10 people.[/QUOTE]
The bandwagon bullshit was rife here too. If you said anything against the 'cause' you'd get gangfucked by whinos screeching from their supposed moral highground and probably banned.
Also, Dav0r started the megathread, and it was stickied...
Tragically stupid times
[QUOTE=Plattack;39062915]Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he get arrested for touching his Kony in public?[/QUOTE]
you're thinking of the guy who started KONY 2012
[QUOTE=Fedalkyn;39062929]The bandwagon bullshit was rife here too. If you said anything against the 'cause' you'd get gangfucked by whinos screeching from their supposed moral highground and probably banned.
Also, Dav0r started the megathread, and it was stickied...
Tragically stupid times[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;k1FKS1SHSsc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1FKS1SHSsc[/video]
I too called bullshit about this whole thing. I even linked sources showing how much they pocket the donations. I believe they only donated about 33% of the money, but I'm not sure. Nevertheless, when I called them out on my Facebook I got my anus torn, pretty much.
The epitome of slacktivism, and a very good demonstration of how the internet will call you out on your bullshit.
it's 2013, he got away
yahoo's searches
all 27 of them
Just took a look at his wikipedia page. Apparently he has 88 wives and 188 children. Busy motherfucker, i say.
A running joke around school late this year around October was going up to the Anti-Kony diehard supporters and saying "So, how's Kony?"
Everyone who hasn't seen this needs to see it.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdBcypx1DfE[/media]
[img]http://cdn.crushable.com/files/2012/03/carl.jpg[/img]
never forget hope he burns in hell
there's a yield sign I stop by every other day which had kony graffiti, eventually someone put a ron paul sticker over it. Seemed to fit just right.
Probably laughing atop his throne of dead children somewhere in Africa.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;39062873]Let's fucking hope so.
Personally I hope he's floating bloated in a river somewhere in the heart of Africa.[/QUOTE]
I'm slightly confused.
Usually expressing ones hopes that an individual of disgusting/horrible influences is well-received on Facepunch :v:
Its a known fact that the death of this man will trigger an age of enlightment and prosperity in africa.
Man, they didn't find him yet? Here I was thinkin' the guy behind Invisible Children would have personally flown to Uganda and punched Kony in the face like 50 times by now.
Nothing can go wrong if you put up a bunch of posters, right? That's totally a good way to fight the world's injustices. Make sure people know about them and... that's it.
Beginning of Kony 2012 thread: "Yeah, fuck Kony!"
Now: "I told you it was horse shit."
[editline]2nd January 2013[/editline]
Never change, Facepunch.
Can someone briefly explain what KONY2012 was, I never actually bothered to find out
[QUOTE=soccerskyman;39063655]Beginning of Kony 2012 thread: "Yeah, fuck Kony!"
Now: "I told you it was horse shit."
[editline]2nd January 2013[/editline]
Never change, Facepunch.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1168638[/url]
some people even changed their avatars to kony 2012 logos back then. lmao
When I first saw the posters I thought it was like a local election for the city mayor or some shit.
[QUOTE=ScoutKing;39062836]probably dead.[/quote]
I was watching a vice documentary and they were saying that the LRA is basically dead at this point and Kony 2012 just took troops and cash from where it was needed and into this stupid hunt for an army that isn't one and for a person that is probably dead.
[editline]2nd January 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=soccerskyman;39063655]Beginning of Kony 2012 thread: "Yeah, fuck Kony!"
Now: "I told you it was horse shit."
[editline]2nd January 2013[/editline]
Never change, Facepunch.[/QUOTE]
BREAKING NEWS INDIVIDUALS HAVE OPINIONS, MORE ON THIS AT 11.
This was all pretty funny indeed.
The first time I saw this, I thought it was something mocking Sony.
The best about this was probably the people mistaking his photo for someone else and the sudden "activists" that spawned and thought "I'm gonna save sooo much children for buying and putting these posters up!"
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