On this day in 1973, following the fascist coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende, American journalist and documentary filmmaker Charles Horman was executed in the National Stadium concentration camp in Santiago.

Horman was born in New York City on May 15th, 1942, graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1960 and Harvard in 1964. He was an active anti-war protester, present at the 1968 DNC protests and producing an award winning documentary titled "Napalm". He also worked as an investigative journalist for publications such as The Nation and The Christian Science Monitor.

In December 1971, Charles and his wife Joyce left the U.S. for Latin America, eventually settling down in Santiago, Chile, where he worked as a freelance writer.

On September 11th, 1973, fascists led by Augusto Pinochet and the CIA ousted democratically elected Marxist President Salvador Allende. In the following weeks, many prominent left-wing activists, such as Flora Sanhueza, Victor Jara, and Frank Teruggi, were arrested and killed.

Horman himself was arrested on September 16th, seized from his home by Chilean soldiers and taken to the National Stadium, which had been turned into a de facto concentration camp following the coup. There, Horman was executed on September 19th, 1973.

Documents declassified by the Clinton administration in 1999 indicate the U.S. knew of Horman's plight but initially obfuscated investigations into his death. They also indicated that it was unlikely Horman would have been killed without the knowledge and permission of the CIA.

In June 2014, a Chilean court ruled that U.S. authorities had played a "fundamental" role in Horman's murder. In January 2015, two former Chilean intelligence officials were sentenced to jail in Chile for the murders of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, another American activist who was also arrested, executed the following day.

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  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    The motherfucker that came onto this site, created a bunch of upvote bots with the usernames all ending in "123", and thought no one would notice has to be the most foolish attempt at wrecking ever.

    This person seriously thought admins couldn't see account creation lmao, just check the modlog they created like 20 accounts for this shit lol.

    I remember they tried this exact shit two years ago, you would get like 30 upvotes all at once for random comments before they got banned. Did they really think that they could try again and no one would notice?

    Oh my god they even spaced out the account creation dates to try throw the admins off the trail. They spent an entire month creating all these accounts lmaooo, now it's all just gone!

    :dont-laugh::pathetic::youre-laughing:?

    :hahaha::data-laughing::peltier-laugh::joker-troll:!

    • Redcuban1959 [any]
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      2 years ago

      Also, who tf names their account Gonzalolover123, Duginlover123, Browderlover123 and Gorbachevlover123??

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Gorbachev lover lmao.

        I remember one wrecker got so mad we had South Africans on here that they named their accounts after random cities in SA, like I'm pretty sure I saw u/Johannesburg_cool or something like that.

    • Kanna [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      This is such intense and online clown shit. I can't stop laughing

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        The account spacing out gets me.

        Imagine someone malding so hard they spend an entire month creating upvote bot accounts, carefully spacing it all out as to avoid suspicion and rate limits. Just because they didn't like the opinions of people on the bear site.

        Only for it to be all gone in one click because they used the same name schema for every upvote bot.

        :michael-laugh:

    • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Wtf even happened, I swear I go to work and come back to some new horseshit that everyone refers to with in-jokes and then receive zero explanation for lmao

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Someone has spent a month creating accounts for the purpose of vote manipulation and the admins decided to ban all their accounts today. Every account's username ended in "123"

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            No one really knows why, they've tried this before in the beginning of the site, it was very unsophisticated back then, your comment would suddenly get 30+ upvotes all at once out of nowhere. Like the counter would just go up by 30 because all the bots would upvote at once.

            It took them two years to learn how to space out things, in another two years they'll learn not to use obvious fake usernames I guess

            • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              That makes me suspicious of a couple of my own posts 🤨 I think a couple of my posts were upvoted mysteriously even after they were taken down (one post when from 43 -> 51 after being deleted)

              At the time I thought people were just reading the mod log and clicking the link, but some weird upvote storms now make sense.

              • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                one post when from 43 -> 51 after being deleted

                Oh my god do they still all go up at once or in big numbers like that, our wreckers are very unsophisticated

                But seriously I don't think it's to do with the current struggle session as the first accounts were created over a month ago, well before any changes in site policy

                Also I have a "fat finger" do I often upvote posts from the modlog by accident. Have accidentally upvoted some really sus stuff when browsing though it before. Not that your posts are sus or anything, just saying that double tapping on a phone is pretty easy.

                • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  It happened in a 1 hour time period but it was still weird af dunno maybe just reading too much into it.

                  But seriously I don’t think it’s to do with the current struggle session as the first accounts were created over a month ago, well before any changes in site policy

                  Ehhh its a possibility that they had then on stand by for stuff like this

    • CommCat [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      leftist msg boards aren't really important enough to waste your time on...holy shit lol