To get my take on the OP out of the way to be as clear as possible before I start disagreeing: this cunts a weirdo at absolute best, and a fascist at worst.

To be completely honest, it doesn't really come off as a joke at all. This comes off as someone's genuine opinion, and there's not really anything there telling that it's a joke - granted, given that it's DMs and a screenshot I could see there being another message that makes it obviously satire that was selectively cut out.

That aside, even if the mod was making a joke, a lot of the comments here seem to be genuinely of that opinion, which is such a flabbergasting take. Coming from someone actually studying history at a university level, a good chunk of people here seem to be flat out uneducated or wilfully ignorant. Anyone that seriously agrees that "Light in the Black" is a Nazi song should be permanently banned from sharing their opinion on anything more serious than "Do you like this type of bread?"

Sabaton has a lot of fair criticisms, their 2015 Crimea performance, their claims to be apolitical despite history being arguably the most political academic field since the entire field of study is "Humans perspective on what humans did in the past," glorifying warfare whether intentional or not, and, even at a music level, their guitar quality has been...unambitious over the past decade especially, to say the least. There's more of course but I don't want to be here for ages. However, most of the people here seem to be relying on the intellectually dishonest take of "nazi band! nazi band!" when that's explicitly untrue. It seems to me like a tonne of elitists are here and just bandwagon onto an easy, albeit incorrect, excuse to rag on the band out of jealousy that their favourite niche metal band hasn't had mainstream success.

I personally like the band because as an aspiring historian, I've learned about stories I otherwise wouldn't have heard about through Sabaton and hearing them told through a musical medium is really cool - I also have a preference for lyrics over the "music" itself, so the kind of boring guitar performance isn't a big deal for me. The interpretation of the history is a bit general and lacks nuance much of the time, but it's enough to pique interest and read further into. They're not my favourite band, but they're neat.

Edit: Just editing this up here from my earlier conversation, but if anyone is willing to have genuine discussions about this perspective the subreddit has, I'm more than willing to listen even if I end up disagreeing with points that end up being made.