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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2012 14:09:17 GMT -8
If you haven't been on twitter or facebook, as i know that many people on here haven't, can i just explain what "trending" means on twitter. Trending is when a subject on twitter goes worldwide and has been passed on again and again by many different people. The video link at the bottom is now one of the biggest "trends" ever and has made it into congress in the states and on all national TV news. please take time out to watch the video. It starts a little slow, but this man has to be stopped. I contacted my ugandan dealer yesterday to ask about this man Joseph Kony, and he told me that his butterfly catcher had been slaughtered in the field by his rebels.
thanks for viewing
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Post by nomihoudai on Mar 8, 2012 14:47:13 GMT -8
You have to be on twitter or facebook to hear about the evil of Joseph Kony? I don't want to live on this planet anymore, seriously. Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2012 15:13:35 GMT -8
no you don't have to be on twitter or facebook to hear about joseph kony, but that's the point. I have over 3000 friends on facebook that did not hear about joseph kony, but when i shared the link with over 3000 other people, they then knew about this evil man.
Why do you have to respond in this way. I do not understand your reply to this thread?
why not use facebook or twitter to highlight what these evil doers
are doing to humanity? PLEASE...............
if you watched the video you would see this poor child saying that he didn't want to live on this planet because he saw his brother have his throat cut.
Is it alright to use facebook to advertise the sale of insects and share interests in entomology then?
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Post by entoman on Mar 8, 2012 20:09:09 GMT -8
I'm pretty sure that the sentiment Claude was attempting to convey was not that Facebook or Twitter are bad in any way, but that there might be some serious problem with various other media outlets if Facebook and Twitter were the only means of obtaining information regarding Kony. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2012 0:14:10 GMT -8
The reason that the man that started the campaign against Joseph Kony on twitter was so that people such as bono, rhiana, and the like would spread the word, because people in authority would not listen to his plight. Facebook and twitter is a very powerful source if used in the right way. But this isn't about twitter or Facebook. This man has abducted over 30.000 kids and made them slaughter their own parents and disfigure many other. He uses young girls as sex slaves. The resound that I got off Claude wasn't really in the direction of what this man is doing. But hay ho!
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Post by nomihoudai on Mar 9, 2012 2:07:49 GMT -8
I was more shocked by the thing that you asked your Ugandan dealer about something you heard on a "recreational" website. For me it was like you phoned over to Palestine asking if Israel really built up a wall around them as you saw this in the news after munching some potato chips on your couch. Also you make good money off the guys in Uganda but seem to have a big disinterest for these people themselves when such a "detail" escaped your knowledge.
This guy is around that place for over 25 years now and nobody gave a s##t so far. Now is the year 2012, the US can't afford another oil war (despite lurking around Iran) and suddenly they got troops in Congo and suddenly people do care. Also what entoman said, Joseph Kony has been in the news each year for the past several years and surely made it to many newspapers in the past but nobody cared.
I welcome that action gets taken against him now, but I regret that is is happening under the sign of US election campaign and I will regret that a hand full of people will entitle themselves with the credit of having caught Joseph Kony by making a youtube video, a facebook page and a tweet on twitter...
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Post by wingedwishes on Mar 9, 2012 4:36:46 GMT -8
You tube is only recreational if you only use it that way. Like a library, it can be entertainment or recreation. You tube and Face Book, like the internet, are methods of communication. If people find out via smoke signals is not meaningful - They found out. It can be hard to get info out of some countries to the general world stage and ANY media which accurately does it gets a kudo. A bit odd that an unrelated election is thrown in as well. Please elucidate on how a USA election is related to a "recreational" website. I do agree with you (facetiously) that calling Palestine for information while sitting on a couch eating junk food will generally get you non truth.
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Post by jeanff on Mar 9, 2012 4:55:43 GMT -8
The organization Invisible Children, which is behind the movie you describe, is reported to be fairly shady and to forbid scrutiny of its accounting by third party reviewers. I guess the actual info is on the net somewhere...  |
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Post by wingedwishes on Mar 9, 2012 6:15:58 GMT -8
I did read that as well Jean. It appears to be easier to pull teeth than get accurate information on them or many "3rd world" organizations or governments. Time for free elections in Uganda - Perhaps the people will rise up as a world power cannot seem to force a country to be fair to its people.........
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Post by Adam Cotton on Mar 9, 2012 10:19:19 GMT -8
How about moving this discussion to "The Porchlight" as it doesn't seem to be about entomology, other than a vague reference to a butterfly collector.
Anyone who hasn't heard of Joseph Kony and the 'Lord's Resistance Army' obviously hasn't been following current events very closely over the past 20 years or more.
Adam.
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Post by wingedwishes on Mar 9, 2012 12:52:56 GMT -8
Not really a big current events item for the world as the LRA is not very large as far as militias go. It appears to be more of a terrorist group unable to directly combat a large governmental force. I remember Idi Amin who was a bigger "star" on the worlds consciousness and in the same region. It was May of last year that the US president signed the bill to put force into play. Only 100 US troops are being sent. Reasonably reliable media sources have reported on the LRA and the atrocities they commit. Adam is very right - Porchlight would be the right locale for this topic.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2012 15:52:31 GMT -8
Claude, this is the first time I have heard of Joseph kony, in never heard of jack the ripper till I was 10 and he's been about for eternity...... whats wrong in asking a Ugandan about him? I never said to my dealer in uganda that i'd heard of joseph kony from a recreational website. I actually heard of joseph kony on the news. It was my son that pointed out to me that this video was on youtube. the reason i posted the link was because i was shocked at what he was doing to ugandan children. Dear me, chill out man  All I wanted to do was hear what everyone thought about what he was doing. What's dealing in insects from Uganda got to do with it. If I send money to Uganda isn't that helping certain individuals in living a better life over there? I really don't know why u are so pissed off on the subject. r u on Facebook? I did post this in the wrong place, sorry. |
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All I wanted to do was hear what everyone thought about what he was doing. What's dealing in insects from Uganda got to do with it. If I send money to Uganda isn't that helping certain individuals in living a better life over there? I really don't know why u are so pissed off on the subject. r u on Facebook?