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Everybody was wary of Lynetta, who defied local custom for women by smoking in public, instead of privately in her house.
Badass.
she made a spectacle of herself by smoking and wearing pants instead of dresses.
The cheek of it!!!
Jimmy led a contingent of kids into the warehouse one night and told everybody to climb into caskets and just lie there; that way they might find out what it felt like to be dead,
Goth Jim Jones
Jimmy studied Adolf Hitler intently,
Fuckin red flag!
lure a puppy over the open loft trapdoor and deliberately let it fall down to the hard floor below.
McKenzie Triangle
April 1954 the Indianapolis Star ran a story about his refusal to accept a shipment of monkeys because they were ill.
Slow news day?
When communion was required, Temple congregants were offered coffee and donuts rather than wine and wafers.
Now thats a communion i can get behind
The real U.S. government was run in secret by white men dedicated to the eradication of socialism and who used the FBI and CIA to carry out illegal attacks on organizations such as the Temple.
Lol Jim Jones predicts the Deep State
“The only toothpaste that will make your gums resistant to atomic radiation is Phillips toothpaste.”
Hellofan advert
commanded everyone to shout “Fuck!” in unison. They did, and Jones insisted that they do it again and they did, finally bellowing the same culturally forbidden epithet over and over for a full minute,
Wild.
telling Planning Commission members that Carolyn had gone to Mexico to purchase the components of an atomic bomb for the Temple—once
Sure, why not?
Customs inspectors in Panama were almost exclusively male, and they squeamishly peeked into the boxes if they looked at all, always ignoring those containers emptied of female sanitary products and crammed instead with cash.
They literally relied on men being like 'ewwww periods'?!
I was born to put the whammy on people.
Jim Jones: Born to put the whammy on people.
“Guyana’s involvement was not much greater than if a Hollywood movie team had come here to shoot a picture on some aspect of American life. The actors were American, the plot was American. Guyana was the stage, and the world was the audience.”
Damn son, nice words
Traditionally, demagogues succeed by appealing to the worst traits in others: Follow me and you’ll have more, or, follow me and I’ll protect what you already have against those who want to take it away from you.
Hello politics!
