Jim Jones cult leader was a typical liberal Democrat

[renard_ruse]

I have been reading about this. Jim Jones (of Jonestown Massacre fame) sounds like RoryN. Obsessed with "racism," "sexism," and "fascism" and a practicing bisexual and pro-gay advocate. He was also an avowed atheist and Communist.

He would fit in quite well in today's Democrat party and 21st century America. We have become Jonestown.

 

[renard_ruse]

He was also a community organizer like Obama.

 

[Vagina_Dentata]

He also had a thing for Heathyr Hoffman.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

And Hitler was Catholic. So all Catholics must be Hitlers



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[about_average]

Yeah, he was a typical Democrat.
Here's a list of other Democrats who started a religious cult, moved to a jungle and then had the members commit mass suicide.




















That's the full list.

 

[nerfhearder]

He's a somewhat interesting guy. He meant well for a long time but as usual his good intentions paved the road. That and being batshit crazy of course but he didn't really go full batshit until just before he left the country. It was building up but the jungle did him in. Probably all the heat and humidity and thousand rabid followers.

 

[Hypoxia]

San Francisco circa 1970. I lived just down Fillmore Street from the People's Temple site. I knew some of the parishioners. If I'd been more desperate (and I was pretty desperate then) and more open to preaching, I might have joined too. But I skipped the lemonade and now here I am. Whew. Aren't y'all glad?

Mea culpa: I was then a registered member of the Platypus Party headed by a prominent defense lawyer whose platform was to eliminate all city-county taxes by turning Alcatraz Island into a municipal gambling paradise with no limits on sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll. It sounds like a good Libertarian plan, hey? Why, it's almost Tromp-ish. And Jim Jones said he backed it. So there.

 

[Adre]

I have been reading about this. Jim Jones (of Jonestown Massacre fame) sounds like RoryN. Obsessed with "racism," "sexism," and "fascism" and a practicing bisexual and pro-gay advocate. He was also an avowed atheist and Communist.

He would fit in quite well in today's Democrat party and 21st century America. We have become Jonestown.

Right, Republicans would never nominate a narcissistic, opinionated, demagogic, irrational, unprincipled guy to represent their party.

 

[Sean Renaud]

As usual good intentions paved the road? I swear people who say that need to be slapped.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Right, Republicans would never nominate a narcissistic, opinionated, demagogic, irrational, unprincipled guy to represent their party.

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[nerfhearder]

San Francisco circa 1970. I lived just down Fillmore Street from the People's Temple site. I knew some of the parishioners. If I'd been more desperate (and I was pretty desperate then) and more open to preaching, I might have joined too. But I skipped the lemonade and now here I am. Whew. Aren't y'all glad?

Mea culpa: I was then a registered member of the Platypus Party headed by a prominent defense lawyer whose platform was to eliminate all city-county taxes by turning Alcatraz Island into a municipal gambling paradise with no limits on sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll. It sounds like a good Libertarian plan, hey? Why, it's almost Tromp-ish. And Jim Jones said he backed it. So there.

I've heard some of his old recordings, he was very dynamic and I can totally see why people went for him and at least for a while he really did seem to mean well. Hell, even the jungle temple probably seemed like a good idea to everyone at first. Stupid congressman gotta go and fuck it up for everyone. He got his.

 

[nerfhearder]

Right, Republicans would never nominate a narcissistic, opinionated, demagogic, irrational, unprincipled guy to represent their party.

No, I don't think Kasich is gonna get it.

 

[nerfhearder]

Imagine what the smell must have been like, a thousand bodies lying in the jungle. Nasty.

 

[Hypoxia]

Imagine what the smell must have been like, a thousand bodies lying in the jungle. Nasty.

With enough mustard and tequila, you would hardly notice.

Break out your ivory chopsticks.

No waste.

 

[nerfhearder]

With enough mustard and tequila, you would hardly notice.

Break out your ivory chopsticks.

No waste.

Now I'm wondering if cyanide can be transfered by eating someone who died from it or if it's metabolized too much to be of any harm.

 

[Hypoxia]

Now I'm wondering if cyanide can be transfered by eating someone who died from it or if it's metabolized too much to be of any harm.

I am personally involved: "Cyanide poisoning is a form of histotoxic hypoxia because the cells of an organism are unable to use oxygen..." I'm not sure about persistence of residues but it *can* be decontaminated -- so keep some nitrogenases, rhodaneses, and nitrilases handy. Just in case, y'know?

 

[Sean Renaud]

Do you exist to amaze me? Are you an Amazo?

 

[renard_ruse]

And Hitler was Catholic. So all Catholics must be Hitlers

Hitler didn't espouse Catholic beliefs.

I challenge you to go listen to some tapes of Jim Jones and tell me that what he was advocating then is not what the Democrat Party, and by extension, 21st century mainstream America don't advocate today?

We have become Jonestown.

 

[Hypoxia]

Do you exist to amaze me? Are you an Amazo?

Apparently. I blame inhaling the residues emitted by the industrial facilities in Fontana. Time was, if the wind was in the right direction, you could hang your wash on an outside clothesline, and when you took it in at the end of the day, it's all bleached -- by the sulfuric acid in the air, spewed by Kaiser.

Yes, that was the era of tidy-whities and sun-drying. And hide-under-your-desk bomb drills. My nightmares were of mushroom clouds rising over San Bernardino (Norton AFB) and Riverside (March AFB). My undergarments were quite white. I ate the best bleached food, too.

And because of all that, and application of many alkaloids, I am amazing. QED.

EDIT: Back to Jim Jones. Times were weird then. People's Temple was located in the heart of a heroin-infested ghetto. Even local shopkeepers were junkies -- or much-hated Palestinians. Endemic street and break-in crime. Blatant police racism and abuse. I lived in the middle of it. I can see PT parishioners heading en-masse for Guyana as an escape from urban nightmare.

But why carry the paranoia to Guyana? I'll leave that for others to explain.

 

[Sean Renaud]

No. I challenge you to find a Jim Jones transcript and post specifics of what you think he has in common with the modern democrat party.