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PSA of the Day: Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore phoned up a bunch of their celeb friends and convinced them to participate in a series of anti-sex-trafficking PSAs that, according to Kutcher, purposely sport the “offbeat feel of Funny or Die.”
Because, as everyone knows, an anti-sex-trafficking PSA can’t possibly be taken seriously unless it has the offbeat feel of Funny or Die.
See the rest below:
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I…honestly don’t know what to make of this.
(Source: thedailywhat)
In 2010 the U.N. agreed to a resolution declaring the human right to
“I discovered … that there was this very direct relationship,” Sharlet says. “And [the Fellowship members] are emphatic and saying: ‘We haven’t killed any gay people in Uganda. This isn’t what we had in mind. We didn’t pull the trigger.’ And that’s true. They didn’t pull the trigger. But there’s a sense in which they built the gun, which was this institutional idea of government being decided by small groups of elite leaders like Bahati, getting together and trying to conform government to their idea of Biblical law. And this is what their American benefactors wanted them to do.”
