Anyone care to explain for the non Americans?
Lots of people died via suicide/coerced suicide in a cult compound by drinking fruit punch.
It wasn’t even in America lol, it was in Guyana
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?
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
Edit: oh it was literally you lmfao, yeah because you said you weren’t American
I don’t think it was taught in school either, pretty sure I just read about it online or in a book.
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. It’s doubtful that anyone BUT Americans would know about it, since it was Americans, who else?
If a story comes up about Vietnam war, you would ask the same thing since Americans were involved, even though it was in another country… come on dude lmfao.
Do you propose that I ask the Guyans or something…? Like seriously, your comment makes zero point. I’m sure they understand English and would provide the right context…. Especially since their citizens were involved……
You’re being a bit of a cunt
And the other user is being a massive moron, you want to defend that? Lmfao.
Who
Pointing out the glaring obvious to someone who missed it tends to make people think that about the one doing so, yes.
I don’t really understand why you are making such a big deal out of this, have a good rest of your day.
You already had your answer from other comments at the point I replied
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]
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).
With more than 900 people in it, the punch line must have been horrible.
Man imagine waiting in line for your suicide…
There were some survivors. Some died willingly knowing what they were doing, a lot of them wound up being forced at gunpoint. The entire compound was being guarded by men with rifles, since they were rightly afraid the US was just going to come down and kill them because the cult had legitimately just murdered a US congressman.
Man I would be so impatient and shifty. Like c’mon, let’s get a move on, we don’t have all day!
Ah, now I get it, thanks 😂
The line to get punch is too long
If you’ve ever heard the phrase “drinking the Kool-aid” it’s a reference to this incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
My partner had a great Aunt who actually died at the Jonestown thing.
Pretty sick
From what I’m told, yea, she was.
Life is a joke, death is the punch line.
HAH
As 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.
Uhh JIM JONES… yea… there… funny.
Thank you
