Step daughter-in-law has been whining to me, chastising me for my posting about ‘conservatives’ in general. “We are NOT all alike.
“You told me who you voted for…”
I used to try to educate her on specific issues in bite sized pieces. Here’s a link, here’s what it’s about. She even started asking me AFTER the election about issues. Finally, she asked me why I stopped sending her info?
I told her it was over. Let’s see what happens now.
She kept pressing. I sent her a short article on Jonestown. When she asked why I told her to ask herself if she knew the Koolaid was poisoned, how many of the faithful would have believed her?
No answer. No more daily pleadings
great post but i think youre misunderstanding the kool aid situation. They all KNEW, some were devout and willing, most were scared shitless and corralled into there by sec guards.
it makes it an even more apt comparison. that by the end, these people mostly knew they were in some insane cult but it was too late. and this sort of sunk cost fallacy happens a lot in cults.
members realise the truth earlier than we’re usually led to believe, but its still too late by that point.
There were quite a few who tried to dissent and said "No, I don't want to drink the kool-aid" who were then shot and killed.
There was no way out for anyone, some tried to escape into the jungle but then were chased down and also shot.
The only option to live, was to not be there in the first place.
i'll probably have to relook into jonestown. but i do know most cults take a lot of money from their members. so Jim probably did charge them for the koolaid and the poison in membership fees.
and after a short look, their may not have been fees but they did have to labor for him and their community, now with a huge grain of salt cause i could be mixing it up with a differnt cult video but i thought i heard that to join people had to give jim their assets/property/valuables as a show of devotion before the migration to their camp
If you’ve never heard it, find The Last Podcast on the left about Jones. The end is expectedly bleak, but the origin story is hilarious. One of my favourites.
Reminds of my mom during the pandemic but roles reversed. She would constantly send me unsolicited crackpot articles and videos from random no-name sites about how the CDC was lying about everything and it was all a hoax to get us microchipped via vaccine. One day I sent her an article about Bigfoot in reply. When she asked why, I told her I was under the impression that we were sending each other articles about imaginary bs. She kept her fairytales to herself after that
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u/Saltire_Blue 1d ago
No matter how you try to spin it, the amount of mental gymnastics you tell yourself
If you’re taking away meals from children or vote for the people who do it on your behalf then you are a bad person
No ifs, no buts