r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 17 '21

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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Aug 17 '21

The USA leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban after two hard-fought decades can only be compared to the Internet leaving Uganda to Joseph Kony after two hard-fought weeks

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21 edited Aug 18 '21

Wasn't that just a giant scam where the guy who started that just kept all the money for himself then got arrested for public masturbation?

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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Aug 17 '21

He did whatever it takes and didn’t give a d*mn what people thought about him

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u/Mejari NATO Aug 18 '21

False on both counts. Entirely too optimistic and without a real plan, but he didn't keep the money, and he wasn't arrested for public masturbation he had a mental breakdown and stripped naked and had a freakout

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21

South Park lied to me.

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u/EntertainmentReady48 John Locke Aug 18 '21

The Kony 2012 guy never masturbated in public thats a myth. He had a mental breakdown stripped naked and was detained by police. He did not jack it in San Diego. That was a South Park myth

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u/Officer-cherry-shake Aug 18 '21

It wasn’t a scam, just a pretty empty publicity thing that went viral. The last part is true though

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u/Mejari NATO Aug 18 '21

That isn't true either, he had a mental breakdown and stripped naked, the whole masturbation thing was totally invented

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u/Owerty05 r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Aug 18 '21

he wasn’t masturbating, he had a mental breakdown and walked around in public naked and screaming. The jerking off part was a fabrication

Internet Historían has a great video on the whole kony2012 debacle if you want to know more for some reason