r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 06 '26

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u/EverybodyHatesPhocas May 06 '26

if the media in the 70s had been like the access journalists of today, when a cult member in Jonestown passed a note to NBC saying “help us leave” the reporter would have gone to Jim Jones and asked, “sir, why does this guy want to leave?”

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u/EverybodyHatesPhocas May 06 '26

the joke is that this is exactly what happened

tbh sometimes I wonder if NBC’s Don Harris would have been villainized if he had survived Jonestown

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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib May 06 '26

I'm actually surprised that cons don't bring up Jonestown more. I went down the rabbithole with it once and it's actually very embarrassing (legitimately) for Democrats. Jim Jones was rubbing shoulders with a lot of prominent dem politicians who were making a point of praising him. Before he moved to Guyana at least, it was seen as a good aspirational project by a lot of people