Speaking of which, why is going woke sometimes referred to as "drinking the Kool-Aid"?
Originally, it referred to LSD laced Kool-aid used to induct people into the same counter-culture (Ken Kesey, supposedly) that was subverted by Marxists in the 70s.
Later, it was made famous by the Jonestown mass suicide, and commonly refers to "a person or group holding an unquestioned belief, argument, or philosophy without critical examination." (Sound familiar?) It also has some bearing on all this culture war crap because -- ha ha, they were woke as fuck.
Jonestown was the site of the People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. It was a Marxist Christian cult in the 70s, extremely influential, although it was before my time and I don't know as much about it as I should.
Basically, they fled to Guyana after they started mudering people who wanted to leave and no amount of subversion / screaming could stop news articles from coming out about them. Rupert Murdoch was involved and refused to back down on reporting on them, and this might explain -- due to the People's Temple being connected to Marxist infiltration cells in the US -- why to this day the left considers him an enemy of the party.
Anyway. Jonestown in Guyana. Congressman Leo Ryan (D-California) and an NBC news crew visited. They were going to report that nothing bad was going on. A puff piece.
They were gunned down at the airport instead. (Never trust a Communist.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJSv0gDPVLA
Their leader realized that you can't actually get away with gunning down Congressmen in cold blood even if you're a member of the party -- especially when video evidence of it happening exists. You can't exactly blame it on, I dunno, Alt-Right Fascist Terrorist White People.
So he convinced his ~1000 strong group of parishiners to drink cyanide laced fruit drink. Ironically, not Kool-Aid. Not only to drink it themselves but to force the children to drink it. The poison wasn't mixed very well, so some people died clean and quietly after walking away someplace private, others twitched and screamed and had to be given "mercy injections" or were quietly shot to end their suffering.
If you want to lose a little bit of your soul, here's audio of the event. 45 minutes.
https://archive.org/details/ptc1978-11-18.flac16
"Don't worry about the children's crying, the punch is just a little bitter. It's not painful."
Bonus. The cult leader, on the death tape, warns that the evil people that are forcing them to commit "revolutionary suicide" will force their children to embrace fascism if they survive. So remember that the next time some tidybowl haired loon screems fascist at you -- and offer her some Grape Flavor Aid. Don't worry, Radical Leftists don't learn history outside of party approved scripture, so they won't get it.
He didn't confess to anything worse than what he confessed to in public; I'm assured of that precisely because the io9 interview exists, the Funimation """investigation""" exists, no actual dirt has been able to be dug up, and Sprecht can't even be half-assed to talk about what we don't know about Vic that she apparently does while not confirming nor denying anything that Rial et al have said.
They've been looking for real dirt on him for 15 years. In the past 3 months, they've been DESPERATE to find evidence to collaborate their hit pieces. And now they have lawyers who are probably doing their own investigations trying to find SOMETHING to nail Vic with so they can at least show some blood and say "look, there's SOMETHING there."
And the worst thing anyone has been able to find is him teasing a little girl on stage while he pretended to be Captain Kirk or somesuch?
Wearin' out my X button to doubt, here.