Am 02.05.2017 um 22:37 schrieb Dave Blandston:

> PS - I'm not sure if the phrase "Drink the Kool-Aid" is known worldwide, so for
> anyone unfamiliar with it the historical context is from the Jonestown, Guyana
> mass suicide incident in which hundreds of people knowingly drank grape Kool-Aid
> poisoned with cyanide. The poison Kool-Aid was in a vat labeled with a green
> "C." Since then the term has been used to describe the act of compromising one's
> integrity and adopting the unethical standards and methods of those in power in
> order to advance within some corrupt organization.

I've heard the expression in the more general sense of adopting someone
else's bullshit ideology or values in blind faith.

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