"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

HA HA!

YOU MUST POST THAT!

signed, an internet person

I bring a rain of toads and a 40 day flood but I'M NOT ALLOWED IN SCHOOLS ;_;

I am dying at that.

Dear god: yr a grown man, the hell you want to be in a school for, you old pervert.

WELL THEN WHY ARE THE CAVEMEN RIDING DINOSAURS IN MY EVOLUTION TEXTBOOK, GOD
signed, A concerned student from Kentucky

Dear God, No need to be a dick about it, signed concerned student

Really wanting to put image LL posted on my FB wall with that as a caption.

DO IT

hmm maybe I will do that too...

I might. I'm just not feeling the devil in me atm. Wish I had thought to post it in 2008 before I unfriended some of the dildos I went to HS with.

God staying out of school due to influx of dildos.

Rarely has anything blown up my end of facebook quite like the following post (also as jpg):

Monsanto owned companies: Aunt Jemima (Quaker) Jemima (Quaker) Betty Crocker (General Mills) Bisquick Duncan Hines Hungry Jack Jiffy Mrs. Butterworths Pepperidge farms (campbells) Aurora Foods Kraft/Phillip Morris (post cereals) Hershey’s Nestle (Carnation) Holsum (interstate bakeries) Best foods (Knorr) Kellogs Nature Valley Nabisco (Phillip Morris) Pillsbury Heinz Hellmans Hunts KC Masterpiece Frito-lay/Pepsi Delicious brand cookies Famous Amos Keebler/Flowers Industries Banquet Green Giant Healthy Choice (ConAgra) Kid Cuisine (stouffers) Lean Cuisine (stouffers) Marie Callenders Ore-ida Smart ones Power Bar Brand Chef Boyardee Hormel Loma Linda Morningstar Lipton (Unilever) Uncle Ben’s Rice-a-roni/Pasta-roni Tombstone Pizza Totinos Orville Redenbacher Pop Secret Pringles (Procter and Gamble) Coca Cola Minute Made Pepsi Cadbury/Sweppes Capri-sun Cool-aid Ocean Spray V-8 Prego Pasta Sauce Ragu sauce

What do they even mean? Those are not owned by... oh it's a facebook thing never mind

Some of them not even companies.

Now, if you said that there's a high possibility that there are products derived from Monsanto-sold crop seeds in pretty much everything in that list, that is highly probable

Oh yeah, no doubt. But my problem is with the concept being wrong in the first place as well as being horribly disorganized.

Aunt Jemima (Quaker) Jemima (Quaker)

Yeah, like does Quaker have a side product called Jemima to capture the parental offspring hating demographic?

Oats (Quaker)

So we should probably discuss that viral video about Joseph Kony

yeah wtf that thing is blowing up-- 30 min viral video is kind of crazy (havent watched it yet)

http://i.imgur.com/khtOV.jpg

haha otm

trying to gauge the lols/butthurt ratio i will get by posting that

I don't really care how people become social activists?

I don't want to watch the video, can someone summarize it for me plz?

Video: "Joseph Kony is a bad man." (And he is, indescribably so.)

This, however, is also making the rounds:

http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/

The video itself is really boring and patronising too, at least usually these things are engaging or funny.

Related:

http://jezebel.com/5891269/think-twice-before-donating-to-kony-2012-the-meme-du-jour

Please tell me if I have this correct:

A long (relative to most viral videos) video about this murderous, insane Ugandan paramilitary monster goes viral.
People feel a little self-congratulatory about watching/sharing it.
Somebody made a tumblr criticizing the motives/method/efficacy of the organization that made the video.

xp I will read that article TIA

Yeah pretty much.

Oh, okay, the video is soliciting money for a charity that sounds about as ultimately useful as Children International or whoever those shitbirds that send earnest college students out into the streets to solicit donations from passersby.

Jezebel article was a good summary. Thank you!

wait, I'm reading the Jezebel article - and it quotes something saying that their finances haven't been externally audited, but then it links to audited financial statements prepared by an independent firm. The audit shows two years of financials, and maybe it was undertaken in response to the Charity Navigator complaint? It would be quite o_O for an organization with that large a budget to not conduct an independent audit. I'd imagine that some of their institutional funders would require it.

But looking at the financial statements - they show that the vast majority of their expenses were program-related. It is unclear whether the travel and compensation were for people providing services in Africa or not. It is unclear what "production cost" is.

It generally raises my hackles when people that aren't familiar with non-profit accounting and finances make statements like that.

http://i.imgur.com/c2W4b.jpg

Everyone I saw post that works for Boise State's college radio; I assumed it was some fundraising thing for a radio station (KONY) and an indie band I'd never heard of (Visible Children).

when you ass-ume

looking at their most recent tax return, the three key employees don't make outlandish salaries -- under $100k -- but the weird thing is that there's over $1 million in compensation paid to disqualified persons/entities and no salaries/wages for non-key employees, which is potentially very o_O.

Well looks like they've worked out a response:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/www.invisiblechildren.com/critiques.html

i definitely have mixed feelings about how they used timeline to structure the beginning part of the narrative.

yeah i get a little suspicious when co-workers who generally comment solely about the Kardashians are posting about this nonstop

i saw the video a couple of days ago at the insistence of a friend, and was pretty satisfied today when my feed was overloaded with the appropriate level of skepticism rather than the "omg u must watch this for the babies"

People have been posting things like "I don't normally care about politics and this kind of thing but this video really moved me" and I think that says a lot more about the people than the video, I would love if this became some sort of massive awakening that encouraged people to get more involved and pay more attention to global problems etc but I'm not holding my breath.

clicktivism

i of all people really shouldn't be so cynical. like you say, boxedjoy, people paying attention to complicated concerns is a net plus for the world no matter what it is that gets them to pay attention. maybe of the millions who've seen this thing a few (thousand?) will actually get involved in aid work.

What have you got against babies, Hoos?

Just have to say, I work for a nonprofit that has two stars from Charity Navigator and I'm completely confident in our work.

FB invite to a Kony 2012 event on ~4/20~

hitler's birthday. oh, fuck!

Why, where were you going to be?

The ironic thing about this photo is that I HATE guns.

and people will trust them with their donations. Hmm.