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We can laugh at the people cosplaying as mercenaries, but Soldier of Fortune pushed a dangerous ideology. There were lots of disaffected American soliders with
by AndyMcConachie 2y ago
We can laugh at the people cosplaying as mercenaries, but Soldier of Fortune pushed a dangerous ideology. There were lots of disaffected American soliders with nothing to do after the Vietnam War ended who went to go fight in Africa for white supremacist states. Soldier of Fortune was at the heart of that.
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- superultra 2y agoAbsolutely. Not suggesting there’s anything funny about it, but my point is that the magazine’s allure in areas outside of those Vietnam soldiers was piggybacking a broader popular culture depiction of mercanaries that - however untrue at the time - was itself very different than what one thinks of today when thinking of survivalism.