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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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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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Getting people to give a shit is not inherently a bad thing.
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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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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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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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This is true, but your reasoning is fallacious.
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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.
It seems like you have anyway. 
Sometimes Im just silly like that. But it seemed really suspicious for them to say "THis will only work if you pay attention the next 30 mins" or whatever they said. I dont appreciate people making demands like that <.<
