While their rhyme game is often very weak and lyrics are pure **** more often than not, and while I get the part about power tripping and that this attracts certain cringe groups similarly to how Hearts of Iron or Crusader Kings games unfortunately do, how are their songs nationalist or racist/proto-racist? The songs cover pretty much everything from Soviet Union to Japan, from Carolean Sweden to ancient China or Italy, from Nazi Germany to the US. Is it because the fans tend to limit the scope and just put songs about panzers and uboats and stuff on repeat? Or is war as a topic inherently racist?If you can read Sabaton lyrics without clinching your butt you need to be saved. They sound like they are written by untalented children.
I know people on the right-wing who absolutely love these warlike power fantasies and are typically Wehrmacht simps. (This is okay as a guilty pleasure if you don't tell anyone.)
The implication is that Sabatoning may be nationalist or maybe even proto-racist power tripping (which is why Jacob really hates them), if your youth days are long over. For the young, it's a normal phase of being a clueless cringy weakling. Hope that helps, Antonis!