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plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lots of people died via suicide/coerced suicide in a cult compound by drinking fruit punch.

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• Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It wasn’t even in America lol, it was in Guyana

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  • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Jonestown, was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American religious cult under the leadership of Jim Jones.

    Wasn’t taught in our history as it was done by Americans. Why do you think the country location matters?

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    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It doesn’t, but the person I was replying to brought it up lol.

      Also yes, I’m well aware it was a bunch of crazy Americans :p

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      • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well a quick google showed that it involved Americans, I didn’t want to spend an hour researching to get a potentially missable joke. So I asked.

        I did a little research before asking dude. Your comment just makes you look foolish.

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• orhtej2@eviltoast.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  While use of the phrase dates back to 1968 with the nonfiction book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,[1] it is strongly associated with the events in Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978, in which over 900 members of the Peoples Temple movement died. The movement’s leader, Jim Jones, called a mass meeting at the Jonestown pavilion after the murder of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and others in nearby Port Kaituma. Jones proposed “revolutionary suicide” by way of ingesting a powdered drink mix made from Flavor Aid, later misidentified as Kool-Aid, that was lethally laced with cyanide and other drugs.[2][3]

  Via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid

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  • Photonic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And why would it say the punch line is too long? Is it a fruit punch flavor joke or smt?

    Also: this punch line is quite short, which disproves its own statement (yes, I’m fun at parties).

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      With more than 900 people in it, the punch line must have been horrible.

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      • AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ah, now I get it, thanks 😂

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    • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The line to get punch is too long

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you’ve ever heard the phrase “drinking the Kool-aid” it’s a reference to this incident: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown

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  • codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It never stops being funny that business dorks and tech bros adopted “drinking the koolaid” as a phrase to mean getting buy in. That and “dogfooding” really tells you a lot about how we think of ourselves, or at least how the executive class wants us to think of ourselves.

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