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Essentially, yes. But there are more horrid dictators, more dangerous people in positions of political power and much much much more efficient ways of bringing stability to the area. Joseph Kony is small potatoes compared to hundreds if not thousands of other monstrous individuals.
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I hate this argument. “There are bigger badder problems in the world!” is not a reason to ignore smaller issues. We are not a civilisation that can only focus on one goddamn problem at a time; we can support the arrest of Kony while also supporting the fixing of problems elsewhere.
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The goal is to get all the slacktivists they can to bitch and and whine about something that they basically would not give a shit about otherwise so that they can pat each other on the back for a job well done when Kony is taken care of,
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Getting people to give a shit is not inherently a bad thing.
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which will only bring that much more instability to the area because he has a several thousand strong militia of child soldiers which will become a headless, guntoting, psychopathic little band of zealots fuelled by a bizarre pseudo ideaology.
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I doubt they would just slap handcuffs on Kony and say “welp screw all these child soldiers, they’ll get by just fine on their own!”
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Invisible Children is basically a bogus charity powered by guilt and god fucking damn it that picture of those sons of bitches in the jungle holding weapons makes me want to cut them apart with a fork
tl;dr it's for reddit faggots to think they're helping when they're doing nothing of the sort
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This is true, but your reasoning is fallacious.