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