Comments on: Revealed! Kony 2012's sinister Musical Comedy roots

By: loijo1

loijo1 — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:26:00 +0000

Who ?

By: loijo1

loijo1 — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:29:00 +0000

“The song is a little cheesy, but really, not bad, and the production values are high. Likewise, the dancing is not top-notch, but the choreography is quite good-”

It’s all quite bad, actually.

By: loijo1

loijo1 — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:39:00 +0000

“1) The production quality and dancing in this are really, really impressive. This isn’t some little amateur production.”

Impressive ? It’s fucking awful.

By: Becon

Becon — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:43:00 +0000

What’s a television?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:55:00 +0000

I wouldn’t know; I don’t watch television.

By: Teller

Teller — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:05:00 +0000

btw, Glee is a stupid show.

By: Leonard Andrew Spencer

Leonard Andrew Spencer — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:52:00 +0000

Depends who you donate to. Malaria and Soil Transmitted Helminth charities can do quite a bit of good without much money. For example, $5 a month would supply 30 or so kids with preventitive medication for helminthic infections, assisting in their eradication and protecting them against death, disability, malnutrition and sickness.

By: Ilja van Bemmel

Ilja van Bemmel — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:38:00 +0000

for a starter, here’s the blazing trails vid: http://www.myspace.com/video/invisible-children/blazing-trails-again/6229533

By: andychannelle

andychannelle — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:16:00 +0000

Mostly I think they’ve read a wikipedia article on the French Revolution and then made this piece of whatever you want to call it. They probably didn’t know about the Fourth Estate being the press. Just thought they were being profound and stealing a revolution for their own nefarious purposes.

By: Adele Hunter-Higgins

Adele Hunter-Higgins — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:31:00 +0000

Ryan Hansen (he of Party Down/Veronica Mars etc.) is married to Jason Russell’s sister, which is a thing I only found out because HE IS WEARING PRIMARY COLOURS AND DANCING IN THIS VIDEO.

By: Brian Sterr

Brian Sterr — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:03:00 +0000

Any mirrors for the vans video? It looks like they’ve made it private since this was posted.

By: Linnet

Linnet — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:55:00 +0000

Love you so much Charlie B

By: Mark McAndrew

Mark McAndrew — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:10:00 +0000

+1 Prediction points!

By: willie imara johnson

willie imara johnson — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:50:00 +0000

I don’t have anything against awareness but the amount of money they’re spending on making internet videos is astounding. Organizations that are actually going into Africa and it’s impoverished countries are doing a lot more with a lot less. They seem extremely egotistical. They receive donations from anti-gay initiatives so their character is questioned right there, but they are receiving donations from large and powerful institutions to make musicals that don’t mention their cause? But they did get awareness out, even if Kony is a bit outdated. I think George Clooney being arrested today achieved what IC did with a fraction of the cost.

By: Shauwn Barnes Dunlop

Shauwn Barnes Dunlop — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:33:00 +0000

the freakiest one’s been removed from you tube? anyone have another link to it?

By: Melissa Contreras

Melissa Contreras — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:51:00 +0000

That first video is a total rip-off of Michael Jackson’s Captain Eo video from the 80′s. Also, I wish I could un-see that.

By: flickerKuu

flickerKuu — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:20:00 +0000

If I would have to guess: I would say Meth.

By: luther_blissett5

luther_blissett5 — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:11:00 +0000

…and I belieeeve… releasing a little stress and loving yourself is not a crime!

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:07:00 +0000

If only there were some way that this could get more bizarre…..

Oh! It has!

Invisible Children Co-Founder Detained: SDPD

SDPD said he was found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possibly under the influence of something.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/jason-russell-san-diego-invisible-children-kony-2012-142970255.html

By: ACP_Paddy

ACP_Paddy — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:56:00 +0000

*For people that can’t read good.

By: C W

C W — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:47:00 +0000

“Kony 2012 is in many ways a fundraising operation”

It’s in every way a fundraising operation for IC. It’s an ad/infomercial and not an actual documentary.

By: C W

C W — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:47:00 +0000

“You’ve now made the job of everyone trying to tap the Internet’s potential to galvanize positive social change infinitely harder”

Good. People should be more cynical about pious frauds and “awareness” as an end-goal.

By: C W

C W — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:46:00 +0000

“a lot of the discourse has led to people interviewing people in Uganda, actual reporters and people living there who have things to say. ”

Right, but these people were not “invisible”. They’ve always been heard. The idea that we need a white savior to publish these voices that have BEEN CONSISTENTLY PUBLISHED AND COVERED is what’s ridiculous. Turn off your TV and destroy it if you think that this campaign is more useful than watching international news.

By: C W

C W — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:40:00 +0000

“So what has Invisible Children done? They’ve made people aware of themselves”

Yup. “Well *I* know now”

Oh really? You know surface-level bullshit and have helped enrich yet another zealot at the expense of Africa.

“Awareness” is one of if not the worst thing ever to happen to private charity.

By: C W

C W — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:38:00 +0000

“I can’t be the only one to think that this Jason Russell chap is as gay AND camp as houses at the same time”

Maybe, but like plenty of evangelicals before him, he’s got a wife, a kid, and sponsors a rabidly homophobic army that introduces “kill the gays” legislation.

By: C W

C W — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:37:00 +0000

More specifically, putting ME as the star of my Broadway fantasies, only through that can Africa be saved!

By: LinkMan

LinkMan — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:03:00 +0000

Invisible Children is more Aldous Snow’s African Child (Trapped in Me) than “We are the World.”

Actually, now that I think about it, the parallels are truly uncanny….

By: luther_blissett5

luther_blissett5 — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:45:00 +0000

I belieeeve…. my Broadway fantasies can save Africa!

By: Adhoc Media

Adhoc Media — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:39:00 +0000

They blocked a lot of their music videos. Please tell me someone has archived them for mashup purposes. Please. Dear god.

By: luther_blissett5

luther_blissett5 — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:39:00 +0000

A warlord who shoots people in the face. What’s so scary about that? I must trust that my Lord is mightier, and always has my back. Now I must be completely devout. I can’t have even one shred of doubt…