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Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66 - Novo General Megathread for the 1st-9th of October 2026
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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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Rant? But I hate how the cliche of “hate begets hate” is always something told to victims of oppression and not the aggressor.
Like have you tried telling any chud “hate begets hate”? They’ll laugh it off, but you’ll hear those words a lot on tumblr when someone expresses even the smallest revenge fantasy against people who have been tormenting them all their life….and said by chuds too!
Funny how the “you can’t fight hate with hate” crowd thinks they can fight hate with hate with hate.
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He's been at it for 4 hours & I can't see a difference
Leaf blowers are one consequence of lawns
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I'm surprised he hasn't tried blowing the rain away, that's the only respite I get from that damn leaf blower
I hate lawns and the kind of behavior they create so much
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The memory erasure thing is also getting retconned of course because it was a terrible idea to immediately dump your series spanning main cast into the angst pool of forced drama and self-loathing that was entirely forced and out of character for all three of them. Also the 4 year timeskip in the start of the movie is jaw dropping considering how tightly paced the first three movies were.
Also having the main villain be a telepath is a massive fumble since now you have to magically explain why she doesn't affect the incel spiderman and also does irredeemable shit but gets a redemption arc.
I binge watched all the tom Holland spider man movies and omfg they really dropped the ball with brand new day. It feels so soulless and cheaply made that I ended up getting to the end of the movie and feeling shocked that it just ended.
I have no idea how it did so well other than the massive inertia of the first trilogy.
Dear Firefox version 156: In what universe is "movie" considered a misspelling?
I think I remember hearing some issues with ai and romhacking nowadays, anyone more familiar is it to due with poor vibe code and or the principle of not using ai because I can see both.
probably a bunch of people making garbage because the barrier to entry is so much lower
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Fuuuuuuuuuck cars.
learning about deadlock lore
Once Warden gets over his shyness and actually talks to the others, he will be the protagonist of the anti-patron storyline with the Lash, Venator, Baba, and let's say, Nurse Harrow
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yes I do headcannon every show one actor has been into each other, how can you tell
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I have been seeing Michael Bay Transformers Revisionism, now that there is a new movie out i have seen reddit posts cause I was tryong to sell my Beast Wars Toys of the Transformers Reddit glazing the Bayformers movie. This feels like the Star Wars Prequels again but even more. The Bay Transformers movies are absolute pure trash. The prequels were at least the unfiltered vision of a very strange man. Bayformers was disgusting uninteresting slop, I thought less of those who enjoyed it then and ill have an even lower opinion of those who have nostalgia for is. It's some of the lowest brow trash ever
Finally a movie take we can agree on ^ - ^ I respect the desire to critically reappraise and assess them, but holy shit they're so bad. Do not say that bayformers was good.
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There's a video where some youtubers or podcast people put on the first four or so movies at the same time and realised the movies all hit the same beats around the same moments. It's like these movies were just written to a formula and they filled in the details for whatever bullshit the new one was about.
Rlm watching 5 at a time
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Edit: in the scene where they're parking trucks in front of the doors theres a zombie that really looks like Donald Trump. I'm watching it on DVD so I couldnt screenshot
Instead of Harem Anime, there should be one where the entire cast is devoted to setting the two romantic interests who are too oblivious to see they might have something together
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The desire to use "low empathy" as an insult the same way chuds use "low IQ" but realising that would probably make me sounds like a jackass
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Outwoked the queer devil, smoke their ass
All I ever do is tell people they can do whatever they want forever. I feel like and also have anecdotal evidence that this isn't useful and doesn't work on anybody, but I do it all the fucking time because I'm a complete dork. It's just like, okay for example, if someone says to me that they never developed a taste for makeup or doing their nails or for shoes or jewelry or having fancy style, that they can't bring themselves to like any of it, I'm like "sick rock on, do what makes you feel good". So if they follow it up with "And in some respects, that feels like a failure" then like, well, I dunno. It's like, you don't have to live up to any idea of femininity, if you don't like it. I don't even think 'being a tomboy' really alienates you from other women, honestly. (Does it? I don't feel like it does) You should do literally whatever you want and not feel like it invalidates your "claim" to womanhood, or shit like that. It's not wrong or even unusual, you should absolutely not feel like you're failing over it.
...but saying that isn't gonna fuckin' cure someone's insecurity over their gender and/or expression, right? Not that any one single thing ever could, but y'know, it doesn't help. Could be it's one of those things where 'help' is not required but it always makes me feel deeply useless bc I am extremely socially inept & feel like I cannot communicate meaningfully about gender, I guess.
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"Gender IS inherently authoritarian" watching liberals talk abt gender be like
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The closest I've ever come to talking in real life about my personal, deeply stupid hobby is explaining it to the psychologist. Which is probably good, because it would be pretty weird if I cornered someone in real life about Nearly Roadkill.
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