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Article https://www.vanityfair.com/story/the-new-establishment-2026#oPYC6KRn
Big Win
Socialist commentator Piker has been building his audience for close to a decade, becoming by far the most prominent political voice on Twitch. “My job is to snap people out of [their] stupor,” Piker tells Vanity Fair. On seven-hour daily livestreams, the six-foot-four creatine-taking former frat bro rails against corporate greed and explains things like the Strait of Hormuz in the memeified idiom of his followers, who are mostly white, male, and always online. “[Twitch] is the seedy underbelly of entertainment,” Piker says. The site, intended mostly for gamers, is fringe even by internet standards. But at a moment when the Democratic Party is desperate for, if not its own Joe Rogan, at least one even minorly cool spokesperson, Piker’s success is both instructive and rare. In the past year, Piker’s profile has risen well beyond the digital underworld—think big-league invitations (the Democratic National Convention; this magazine’s Oscar party) and campaign appearances for candidates in the new socialist guard. Piker swears he doesn’t sow controversy on purpose but admits all the attention has boosted his clout. “At the peak of the Iran war, Fox News was running eight stories a day on me,” Piker recalls. With some self-satisfaction, he adds: “They called Jimmy Kimmel the Hasan Piker of ABC, which is insane.”
Achilles’ heel
“America deserved 9/11.” That’s a real thing Piker said during an August 2019 stream, endlessly clipped and quoted. And—surprise—it doesn’t play well. Piker has further stated a preference for Hamas over the Israeli government, called the Hezbollah flag “dope,” and joked that Orthodox Jewish Israelis are “inbred.” He seldom apologizes. Piker’s acerbic brand tests the edges of acceptability. An April bipartisan congressional resolution condemned Piker’s “antisemitic hate-filled rhetoric.” Two months later, the UK Home Office denied Piker entry into the country, citing concerns about public well-being. Freewheeling rhetoric is probably the very thing that made Piker popular, but it has also spawned an unending meta-debate about his legitimacy.
WHAT’S NEXT
As the latest round of Piker backlash crested, Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed (#40) said he had “no plans” to campaign with his one-time surrogate. For 2028, Piker has his eye on Georgia senator Jon Ossoff (#39) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (#17). When asked if he’s scared of doing more harm than good, Piker answered quickly: “No, not even a little bit.”—Abigail Sylvor Greenberg
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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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