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Kool-Aid
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When someone who should know better succumbs to marketing influences and
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actually begins to believe the propaganda being dished out by a vendor, they
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are said to have drunk the Kool-Aid. Usually the decortication process is
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slow and almost unnoticeable until one day the victim emerges as a True
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Believer and begins spreading the faith himself. The term originates in the
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suicide of 914 followers of Jim Jones's People's Temple cult in Guyana in
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1978 (there are also resonances with Ken Kesey's Electric Kool-Aid Acid
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Tests from the 1960s). What the Jonestown victims actually drank was
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cyanide-laced Flavor-Aid, a cheap knockoff, rather than Kool-Aid itself.
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There is a FAQ on this topic. This has live variants. When a suit is
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blithering on about their latest technology and how it will save the world,
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that's pouring Kool-Aid. When the suit does not violate the laws of physics,
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doesn't make impossible claims, and in fact says something reasonable and
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believable, that's pouring good Kool-Aid, usually used in the sentence He
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pours good Kool-Aid, doesn't he? This connotes that the speaker might be
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about to drink same.
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