For those who aren’t familiar with the term, it means believing something that probably shouldn’t be believed, or being influenced to believe something that’s not necessarily in your best interests.

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    Thinking everything is a “hellscape” and only those in your group are enlightened enough to see a better way (those outside the group are “ignorant”) is what most people refer to as “drinking the koolaid”.

    Modern “socialism” is at best a grift, at worst a cult.

    • dustycups@aussie.zone
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      14 hours ago

      I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in…

      …don’t make me post the whole copypasta.