Anyone care to explain for the non Americans?
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plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lots of people died via suicide/coerced suicide in a cult compound by drinking fruit punch.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It wasn’t even in America lol, it was in Guyana
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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?
orhtej2@eviltoast.org 2 months 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]
Photonic@lemmy.world 2 months 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).
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 months ago
If you’ve ever heard the phrase “drinking the Kool-aid” it’s a reference to this incident: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My partner had a great Aunt who actually died at the Jonestown thing.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pretty sick
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
From what I’m told, yea, she was.
CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Add someone deeply aware of the subject matter… This is too stupid to be funny. Maybe adding another meme to it will make it dumb enough to be palatable. But right now it’s just really fucking stupid… sorry OP.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thank you
zuana@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Life is a joke, death is the punch line.
frog@feddit.uk 2 months ago
jade52@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
HAH
yesman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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