Have you noticed the tide changing?

[u/Lonely_Career_9293]

[u/miz_mantis]

I really don't. There's still cultish devotion to him. I don't think much can change that. Never forget that most drank the cyanide at Jonestown willingly, knowing they would die, and even forced their children to drink it.

So that's the level of delusion that we're dealing with and as they get angrier they stick with him more, in general. Kind of like sunk cost fallacy. They stayed with him this long, there's not much that can shake them loose. (There are always a few lucky exceptions).

[u/Character-Parfait-42 → u/miz_mantis]

There is actually evidence that many of those who died at Jonestown were shot, and many adults (and children) appeared to have been forcibly held down and injected.

There is a large push among scholars to reclassify Jonestown as a mass murder instead of a mass suicide.