#drinking the kool-aid

[queeraliensposts]

TW: mention of Suicide, death and cult activity

Y'all we need to stop using the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid" it is disrespectful as hell.

For those who don't know the phrase originated from the Jonestown Massacre in 1978. Cult leader, Jim Jones, ordered the members of his cult, The People's Temple, to drink a mix of powdered drinks with cyanide to preform a "revolutionary suicide". There is an entire audio recording and it is the most disturbing thing in the world. More than 900 people died that day, most of them being minors. Thankfully some survivors managed to get away from the armed guards, but most folks were not as lucky.

The phrase "drinking the kool-aid" which has become a common expression for believing an extreme and dangerous idea is not only inaccurate (the powered drink that was mixed with the cyanide was not Kool-aid but a similar brand called Flavor-aid), but also offensive, family members of Jonestown victims, as well as survivors have come forward saying they find the phrase offensive because it's making a joke out of something horrific. Out of respect for those who have suffered from this tragedy we should all respect their wishes and stop saying this phrase.

[marshmallow-the-vampire-slayer]

vm countdown to season 4 || 1.09 drinking the kool-aid 

Forbidden barn? Check. Implied polygamy? Check. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a cult.

[bibliophileiz]

Veronica Mars Season 1 Rewatch

(Disc 3 in my DVD set because Disc 2 isn't working)

"Drinking the Kool-Aid"

- ok, I know the Moon Calf Collective was supposed to just be a harmless club of hippies, but there is no way it's not creepy for Ms. Mills to be recruiting students to come live on her poinsettia-growing farm in the name of rejecting capitalist culture (as she accepts their money).

- Rain is Cassie from Supernatural

- I forgot about this line: "He joined a cult? What do they worship? Wedgies?"

"An Echolls Family Christmas"

- This is my favorite VMars episode!

- I forgot about Logan's cigar.

- And that he and Duncan wore the same Christmas underwear.

- "I hear about a $5000 card game played by idiots. I'm interested." Gold. As is the following flashback.

- I also forgot about the gross scene where all the guys stand at the window and watch Lynn Echolls jump in the pool.

- THAT SAID Lynn has amazing legs.

- LOGAN'S BLEACHED TIPS! Oh, 2004.

- Also, Logan's Rosie Perez story is awful and hilarious.

- Logan is pretty evil -- I don't know if I'll like him as much now as I did in college -- but he's also hysterical. (*deadpan* "Pa rum. Pum pum.")

- Monica Hadwin is The Morrigan from Lost Girl. Basically the same character.

- "Do you even know how to play poker?" "No. But it must be really hard if all you guys play."

- Logan smells like an evil-doer, you guys, pass it on.

- Also, the most fun thing about this episode is watching my mom's Cheshire cat grin get wider the closer we get to Aaron Echolls getting shanked.

"The Silence of the Lamb"

- Actually mayors are for municipalities, and Neptune isn't incorporated (yet!) so it would probably be the president of the board of county supervisors who accompanied Lamb to Keith's office. To be fair, I think they said in Season 2 Woody Goodman was the county supervisor but they CALLED him the mayor. Or something.

- This episode is kind of like how the new season sounds. Serial killer preying on spring break girls, causing the Neptune PTB to get P.I.s involved because the publicity of the murders is scaring away the spring break crowd.

- Also 100 percent my paper would cover a baby-switching lawsuit against the local hospital. (Actually I did cover a malpractice civil trial of a local OBGYN after one of his patients' uterus ruptured during delivery. It made me never ever ever want to get pregnant.)

- "He's waiting on you to throw your panties."

- Baby Mac!

- I love, love, love the scene when they show up at Madison Sinclair's house.

- I used to think Lauren was played by baby Abigail Breslin, but it's actually a different girl.

- "She wouldn't know Monet's Water Lilies unless Revlon named a nail polish after it." I love Mac.

- Deputy Leo is like those young dumb cops whose appeal for their 10-day suspension for posting dick pics on Facebook I spend hours of my life covering.

- Even though this episode is named for the serial killer A-plot, Veronica basically has nothing to do with solving the murder. Which is good, because the fact that she's not working hardcore cases like that this season makes it more impressive when she does solve Lilly's murder at the end.

- Mac's parents (her real parents who raised her) clearly love her.

- I forgot Veronica sends the pictures to Weedman at the end of this one.

"Clash of the Tritons"

- Lamb interrogates high school kids in Clemmons' office the same way he interrogates criminals at the sheriff's office

- Also the Lindberg baby WAS found.

- At 17 for a non-violent felony, would Veronica be charged as an adult?

- I love how Wallace's answer to how he would get a fake ID is that he would ask Veronica.

- Weevil's notes to Lilly are exceptionally stalker-y.

- Why would a high school have a secret society? (I think the show's trying to capture that sweet college fraternity drama.)

- "Hi Dad! Their case is fuzzy and circumstantial."

- No one called middle school "junior high" in 2005.

- The scene between Logan and Ms. James is great.

- "This is a $250 piece of crap. Now I'm not just falsely accused, I'm genuinely offended."

- The Tritons are actually a really dorky club.

- "Hi everybody! Say 'repressed homosexuality!'"

- I forgot Logan threatened to kill his dad.

- Also Rick's reason for framing Veronica comes out of nowhere and is really stupid.

- That bridge is so high, just the thought of someone jumping off it makes me nauseous.

More notes to come! My mom is in town and wants to keep watching it and I have two days of not having to work, so maybe we'll do a marathon.

[longwindedbore]

Today’s Question: If we put someone who may be a raging malignant narcissist in charge of a major economic and military powerhouse AFTER…

they have (rightly) been mocked for eight years for their appalling level of ignorance;

mocked (rightly) for their pretence of business acumen after multiple bankruptcies;

they (rightly) lost re-election due to grotesque levels of administrative incompetence and economic fallout from tariffs;

they were (rightly) prosecuted at State and Federal levels for innumerable crimes and frauds;

they were (rightly) laughed at by world leaders at the UN for pathetically obvious falsehoods.

QUESTION: How will they react EMOTIONALLY to ultimate power?

Will they EITHER say to themselves, “I must reform myself and try to do better this time to gain my supporters, my country’s, and the world’s respect!”

OR will they act like the Rev. Jim Jones, but elevated to godhood, and shove the poison down everyone’s throat?

Hint: How did he treat his loyal MAGA attendees at his Coachella-adjacent Rally-in-the-cow-pasture Oct. 12, 2024?

Did he provide for portable toilets, for food vendors, pay for sufficient buses to transport them down dark country roads to where their cars and medicines were?

Or did he, for the fifth or sixth but not the last time, fail to provide?

++++++++++++++++++++++++

TBH, I could put up with the collapse if this lame-ass Second Coming Messiah of the Evangelicals raptured MAGA out of this Society.

Unless he wants to invade other countries to trigger the nuclear Kool-Aid option? Rapture all of us.

[redheddebeauty]

I hate virtue signaling. You’re not better than me because you don’t critically examine your beliefs, you’ve just drank the proverbial kool-aid and don’t know what you’re talking about.

[diverseladybookproject]

Veronica Mars Season 1, Episode 9 - Drinking the Kool-Aid

Veronica Mars Season 1, Episode 9 – Drinking the Kool-Aid

Oh hey there! Did you notice that I accidentally missed last week? I had a big research paper due and was trying to write the recap in an airport and it just didn’t work out! So I’m a week behind at the moment, but soon I’m hoping to post two recaps in one week and catch back up to the self-imposed schedule I created, because that’s what’s important. But anyway, on to Veronica Mars!

Previously On…

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[tattooed-alchemist]

Forty Years After Jonestown, Americans Are Still Searching For Gurus To Follow

A new sort of American messianic religion has gathered in Silicon Valley under a techno-futurist banner emblazoned with one word: “Singularity.” (An excerpt from American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation)

During one of the final keynote addresses, Will Weisman, a high-ranking dignitary from Singularity University, sat to interview a woman about her company, which uses blockchain technology to simplify the process of paying royalties to recording artists. Her clients included the heartthrob singer-songwriter John Legend, who had recently been visiting prisons to perform for the downtrodden and forgotten. “It’s so nice to see the social impact being woven into what you’re doing and the people you’re working with,” Weisman told the blockchain entrepreneur. “And it would be amazing to get some of those folks here and have them drink some of the Singularity Kool- Aid—although I’m sure you’re passing that on!” She assured him that she was.

Needless to say, Weisman was unaware that jokes about drinking the Kool-Aid are supposed to be made by an organization’s detractors—not its adherents or evangelists. Apparently nobody in the audience knew this either: a ripple of polite laughter washed over the auditorium. The tone-deafness of making a Kool-Aid joke in San Francisco was lost on everyone present. Forty years on, the lives of hundreds of activists who died hoping to make the world a better place were trivialized into a meme divorced from its referent and clumsily deployed to wrap up an interview at a corporate conference.

What seldom emerges in conversations with techno-futurists is the realization that there is already enough material abundance on Earth to keep everyone alive and happy.

What seldom emerges in conversations with techno-futurists is the realization that there is already enough material abundance on Earth to keep everyone alive and happy. Only greed comes between basic resources and the hungry, sick, and homeless people who need them. That conversations about limitless abundance would occur in one of the richest cities in human history is hardly surprising. But the fact that more than 7,000 people go to sleep on that city’s pavements each night is a problem that cannot be solved by quantum computing, algorithms, or mobile apps—to say nothing of multinational banks, fancy consulting firms, and fossil-fuel companies. It is an abuse of power that exploits the weak and vulnerable in the interest of making a profit. Correcting such a miscarriage of justice requires not technological disruption, but the compassion of a human heart.

[babingbabes]

Suddenly I have this real urge to join a cult