Posted on 11/20/2018 4:14:03 AM PST by a fool in paradise
if your biggest up front point is that they didn’t drink “Kool-Aid” but rather “Flavor-Aid” you’ve lost the argument.
And Jim Jones was a Marxist Democrat player protected by the leftist Democrat establishment in San Francisco and DC.
Apologists trying to make the case for socialist utopias while ignoring the excess and despotism do society a great harm.
And comparing him to Donald Trump and his follower? Pu-lease.
But what do you expect from Robert “Hollywood Red” Redford’s Sundance Channel?
I’m only surprised that it isn’t the pinkos at PBS airing this as they’ve profiled (favorably) the antics of the SLA and Weather Underground.
Spot on, on all that. Its amazing how few know the Dem links Jim Jones had.
Don't let the fact that Jim Jones was cheered by all the best and brightest Leftists in San Francisco get in the way of the interviewers TDS.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/drinking-the-kool-aid-remember-when-jim-jones-was-a-hero-to-democrats/
“if your biggest up front point is that they didnt drink Kool-Aid but rather Flavor-Aid youve lost the argument.”
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Yup, just another reason to not bother with reading Yahoo.
and the commentators are clueless cucks
“President Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, Gov. Jerry Brown and Sen Diane Feinstein NEVER visited or praised or honored Jim Jones.”
“Don’t let the fact that Jim Jones was cheered by all the best and brightest Leftists in San Francisco get in the way of the interviewers TDS.”
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“How San Francisco’s Democrats made Jim Jones, and then made his memory vanish”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/how-san-franciscos-democrats-made-jim-jones-and-then-made-his-memory-vanish
You could go back to the mayoral election in SF...1975, and Jim Jones with his regional church ‘racket’ helped to defeat the GOP guy....John Barbagelata, and bring George Moscone to power. That one single defeat shifted the base of power in the entire area, and ended the GOP as a player in local politics.
The cult players came in and canvased moderate neighborhoods, and got people enthusiastic about Moscone, and then they brought in busloads....maybe into a couple of thousand non-residents to vote in the city election.
yep, Harvey Milk, Mayor Masconi, Willie Brown were all friends of Jim Jones... Jones probably stole the election for Harvey Milk by bringing in people to vote.. Jones was so powerful in San Fran that that one of his laywer was put in charge to investigate the election fraud. Obviously, he didn’t find any.
The comments are pretty brutal about the anti-Trump nonsense.
The Red Dupe author was still looking for the good that Jim Jones did over the years.
Just like Red Asner wanted to make a pro-Stalin film declaring that he’d done things besides killing 20,000,000 Russians.
“Its always useful to remember Nancy Pelosi got her start in Jim Joness San Francisco.”
https://spectator.org/meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss/
To this day the newsweek magazine cover pic with all the dead bodies is imprinted in my mind.
Like so many othe things, the Bible warns us about the dangers of this world.
Matthew 7:15-20
Uh huh.
And they're dead because of it.
So, yeah, they WERE dumbasses.
The so-called "truth" of Jonestown is just that simple.
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