investigating Rhodesia, Africa’s biggest repository of Fucked Anglovibes 
what fascinates me is that overwhelmingly American fascists have rediscovered it and it’s the subject of a kind of fascist nostalgia - most notably Dylann Roof wearing a Rhodesian flag here, along with an apartheid South African one
most notably there’s a whole cottage industry of tactical Rhodesian merch, with varying levels of emphasis laid on the white supremacy
often also tremendously online. imagine explaining this to the people who were there, most of whom are still alive
anyway in a way it’s just coming full circle because after UDI Rhodesia consciously recruited foreigners, especially Americans, with equal doses of white supremacy and anticommunism
in an exemplary piece of whining one group of these Americans called themselves ‘the crippled eagles’ because they felt that Washington had abandoned them merely for becoming part of a foreign country’s military
anyway some of this fascination is with the aesthetics of bush warfare, which mostly amounted to guys in little shorts wandering around doing war crimes. lots of modern attempts to steal this look, which are always entertaining
the good guys had the better propaganda anyway
looking through the user review photos of the little shorts
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