| Manco |
03-08-2012 12:43 PM |
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I'm not saying there are bigger and badder problems in the world, I'm saying that eliminating Kony is small potatoes and won't solve a damn thing in Uganda and East Africa. I'm saying that there are dozens of others like him (and many, MANY worse) and that the surest way to bring about peace would be to bring order through a non-corrupt government that isn't batshit insane. Start at the top and work downwards. Eliminating Kony is like a man getting rid of the problem of a boil on his finger by infecting it with a flesh eating virus.
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Yes, setting up a better government system would certainly be more beneficial for Uganda and Africa, I don’t disagree. This doesn’t disqualify people from wanting Kony arrested and stopping the LRA. We can, in fact, focus on both of these tasks non-exclusively.
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Really, neither of us could know, but presuming that they'd go to the extent of in any way solving the Child Soldiering other than a complete, economically impossible reeducation of them or complete elimination of the army as a whole is naive. Once all of these whinging assholes get Kony taken down, pat themselves on the back and return to being cynical wastes of space all of these poor fucking bastards are going to fill the power vacuum and just keep on raping, pillaging and marauding.
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I think you have little or no solid evidence of this actually happening, and I’m of the opinion that a charity dedicated to raising awareness of the atrocious treatment of these children wouldn’t just up and abandon them all because one guy got brought down. That isn’t to say it couldn’t happen, and I certainly think we should be scrutinizing what happens down the line to ensure it doesn’t.
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Except you don't give a shit. If you did give a shit, you'd look into this beyond Invisible Children's sparkly video and sad sack manipulation and realize there are much, much more significant factors at play other than what is essentially just witch hunting a serial killer until we can all feel less tenuous white guilt.
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Don't you call me fallacious, you little shit. Are you not a Reddit going faggot? Do you really think you're helping after wandering across Invisible Children and joining in with an impotent chorus of white college bums who could not begin to understand the meticulous foreign workings of Ugandan government any more than they understand our politics? (and no, I'm not claiming I do, but I've done a hell of a better job researching and caring about this than you have) Is Invisible Children not lying to our faces through their claimed intentions and easily researched financial history? It's a gigantic fucking useless buttpat and you should be ashamed to not have been smarter about your involvement in it.
I'm not trying to dissuade you from being involved at all, I'm just telling you that there are more than two sides to this and I want people on the one that involves taking some shit for Africa. Good on your for becoming interested, now start digging and don't stop until you've opened up a metaphorical, realistic escape hatch for blood diamond mining and other horrors.
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Oh by the way, I don’t visit Reddit, I don’t like Invisible Children’s methods or approach, and I certainly have been doing a bit of digging. I’ve read and agree with most of the points raised in this thread and in the articles linked. So please, don’t shit down my neck for daring to disagree with your points. |
