Anyone care to explain for the non Americans?
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plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Lots of people died via suicide/coerced suicide in a cult compound by drinking fruit punch.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
It wasn’t even in America lol, it was in Guyana
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 days 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 4 days ago
My partner had a great Aunt who actually died at the Jonestown thing.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Pretty sick
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 4 days ago
From what I’m told, yea, she was.
CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 3 days 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 3 days ago
Thank you
zuana@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Life is a joke, death is the punch line.
frog@feddit.uk 4 days ago
jade52@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
HAH
yesman@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
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