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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just stay away from the refreshment counter...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They better sell koolaid or that trip would be pointless.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It was Flavor-Aid, a knockoff brand.

Because it was cheaper.

Jones wanted the whole thing to be cheap, because the man was a skinflint. The entire massacre, including the bullets that some people wound up with after refusing to drink, was done for less than $20 adjusted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You don't want any Guyana Punch?

https://youtu.be/bhq3O2JGoYc

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Complimentary glass of special Kool-Aid

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

They made scorsese cry!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It was flavor aid RAHHHHH

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As creepy and macabre as it is, I’d probably like to go there. This tidbit of history was my first introduction to the true evil of peer pressure / mass hysteria / whatever the hell this was called. To think that people willingly chose this path was and is very creepy to me. (I know not every dead person there did it willingly, but enough did.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Cults and brainwashing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What would you even do there? Just wander around?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Pretty much. Maybe buy a t-shirt.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'll have an old fashioned.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Since we're renaming all the things, perhaps it should now be called Trump's town. All of his true patriot followers can rebuild and prove how grand of a society they can have.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey looky at the trees... From what I understand there's not much to see. Nature has reclaimed the site.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I mean, good? What would anyone be hoping to see anyway? What lure is “a ton of people died here” is there even a memorial or just some random overgrown spot?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If they treat it similarly to how auschwitz is treated, this would be a great learning experience for the dangers of cults.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sounds classy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

guyana shield is where MEW was based on, and blue gender.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Great way to visit a US cultural icon without having your phone looked through.