On this day in 1965, the September 30th Movement assassinated six Indonesian Generals, beginning a period of West-backed mass murder of alleged communists, religious minorities, and ethnic Chinese people. At least 500,000 were killed.
The assassinations were blamed on the Communist Party on Indonesia (KPI) by the army and various civic and religious groups, and the resulting campaign of mass murder and arrests, backed by several Western powers, led to the ousting of Indonesian nationalist President Sukarno, the deaths of anywhere from 500,000 to 3 million people, and the installation of Suharto, a brazenly corrupt anti-communist, as President.
Blaming the KPI for the assassination of the generals, Suharto’s forces began purging insitutions of alleged Sukarno and PKI loyalists, arresting and summarily executing many important PKI figures. As leftists, real or alleged, were violently removed from civil and military institutions, reactionaries began directing violence towards ordinary civilians.
The campaign of repression was both widespread and brutal; victims were tortured, impaled, beheaded, and rivers were left congested with masses of corpses. The most conservative estimates suggest 500,000 people were killed in total, while higher estimates range from 2-3 million.
Western powers, including the U.S., Britain, Australia, and Sweden, both supported and directly aided the anti-communist pogroms. In 1962, three years before the killings began, both the U.S. and British governments that it would be necessary “to liquidate Sukarno”.
The U.S. trained more than 1,200 anti-communist military officers, providing them weapons and economic assistance. During the massacres, the U.S. supported the Indonesian military’s actions, even providing the government with lists of suspected communists to target.
British Foreign Office documents declassified in 2021 revealed that British propagandists secretly incited anti-communists, including army generals, to eliminate the PKI, and used “black propaganda”, propaganda intended to create the impression that it was created by those it is supposed to discredit, due to Sukarno’s hostility to the formation of former British colonies into the Malayan federation from 1963.
Western media and politicians repeated false propaganda from Suharto’s Indonesian government downplaying the violence while also celebrating the violent repression taking place. Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt wrote in the NY Times “With 500,000 to 1 million Communist sympathizers knocked off, I think it is safe to assume a reorientation has taken place” The NY Times also published a racist article saying the murders were to be expected in “violent Asia, where life is cheap”.
American oil tycoon H. L. Hunt called Sukarno’s ousting the “greatest victory for freedom since the last decisive battle of World War II.” Time magazine described the suppression of the KPI “The West’s best news for years in Asia” and praised Suharto as “scrupulously constitutional.”
The politicide ended in 1966. Sukarno died under house arrest in 1970. Suharto would rule as head of the Western-backed military “New Order” regime for over 30 years, while amassing a personal fortune. The massacres continue to be downplayed in the official Indonesian historiography.
In his 2020 book “The Jakarta Method”, journalist Vincent Bevins argues that the massacre provided the blueprint for American campaigns of suppression of leftist movements around the world. To this day, no Western government has apologized for their involvement in the Indonesian politicide.
Indonesia’s Red Slaughter - Jacobin
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You often hear the “no jury would convict” joke, but it’s really funny that’s exactly what happened with that youtube prank guy getting shot. Imagine finding out society hates your guts that much.
next time he is going to fafo harder
It’s fucked that his minimum sentence is 2 years for discharging that in a mall. If anything that should be on the prank guy for the harassment. I looked at his channel and there are videos of him stalking women.
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Now that school is back in, I’ve discovered to my dismay that the apartment ice moved into is totally encircled by college party houses. How has being a frat bro or college girl normie maintained the exact same look since about the mid 2000s? Also they randomly love to scream in tones thst make it sound like someone is being assaulted and I hate them all
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Between H*xbear tankies, my wife’s girlfriend, the redditor from hell, and general chumpfuckery, this has been a cromulent fuckcrustable of a day. TheWorldSpinny needy drinky.
I love this tweet, but I just now realized that General Chumpfuckery sounds like a British imperialist from the 1760s who got literally 80% of his army killed on the way to an island just due to disease and then committed unspeakable war crimes
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Yeah no it’s the pedo head of a group of pedo ex-slavers (thanks China!) being a fuckin’ creep.
A church being weird about kids is the most expected outcome really
gonna probably take a relative break on consistently outputting new batches of emotes as school year ramps up
batches might be less frequent but I’ll still try to get as much as I can relative to my academic responsibilities
ty for all the emotes
Thank you for your service
I wonder what the least used emojis we have are
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This one especially hurts because almost nobody ever talks about this event when listing the crimes of imperialists even though it is easily one of the very worst
I blame Nala, the chipmunk in that western Merlin anime, and alike for my taste in expressions of interest. If you aren’t putting your tail around my body I will not know you like me like that.
that western Merlin anime
what is that?
lmao just looking at the picture I thought that was Simba’s mom, and now I’m imagining Lion King as a retelling of Oedipus
Well it is Hamlet so
Valid
i had a dream we had a hexbear convention and half of yall got arrested immediately.
The other half are the feds doing the arresting
Sounds on brand.
you were there! you got arrested!
Shit. Dream me is based as hell! The ol irl me is a law abiding wimp.
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I hope this never happens. It would be kinda sad
it would be so sad, i would never recover.
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“Assad must cum!”
"who must cum?’
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This bit was worth the wait lol
I just listened to the Jakarta Method audio book last week. The part about CIA contractors spray painting “Jakarta is coming” in Brazil got me so angry.
when our turn comes, we will not make excuses for the terror
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man why tf are my tits so itchy dude wtf
storms a brewin
Noreasta blowin in
lotion is good for this
looks like I won’t have to rip my skin off after all
“Casual sex implies the existence of ranked competitive sex”
Straight: meta slaves. Only pick characters the online guide tells them to
Gay: picks the off meta characters and still manages to win
Bi: sweaty tryhards that min/max their sexuality
Pan: theory crafters
Virgins: playing offline vs bots
Incels: reported too many times and are in low priority queue and or banned
Ace/volcel: quit playing to touch grass
Professional sex does exist
da bomb? more like da plane
First time I saw boobs was in the Starship Troopers movie. Had nightmares for like a week, but mostly because of the brainbugs
First time I saw Starship Troopers I cried when dizzy died.