Addendum to 1, you might hate communism because you committed a lot of crimes that you know your victims will get justice for if communists take power.
You are a misanthrope whose lack of faith in humanity makes you think hierarchies must be maintained lest the plebs ruin everything. Not that this is mutually exclusive at all, ofc.
There is some tragedy in how the crux of anticommunism (in particular for working class anticommunists) is the mindset that it will always be hammers-and-nails; hence the assumption that communists are either cynical, envious tyrants-in-waiting who don't mean a word they say or the gullible, feeble-minded fools who follow them.
if thinking Nazis are Bad makes you a Tankie then fire up the diesel engine and spin up the drive sprockets because i'm ready to shit in a plastic box in a confined space with 2 to 4 other sweaty men while delivering Uncle Moustache's Red Justice to any bigot death cultist stupid enough to commit to the ideology of throwing infants onto bayonets 'to fight communism' and mass gassing people for having the wrong ethnicity or sexuality or ideas about workplace democracy
I wish these people got tortured in Vietnam with cartoonishly painful methods like they lie about while jerking off and crying when talking in their documentaries. Incredible that they went through all of this and the thing that gives them PTSD is hippies spitting on them which never even happened. I’m done with the “poor wittle working class drafted soldier” bullshit excuse.
I am 1,000,000% convinced that US vets in Vietnam did in fact experience extraordinary levels of PTSD - not from hippies spitting on them or even seeing their buddies get killed (happens in every war), but from all the crimes against humanity they committed against Vietnamese civilians.
The "good" draftees either refused to serve like Muhammad Ali did, or surrendered immediately to the first NVA or VC they encountered without firing their gun. The overwhelming majority had no problem joining in the mass murders when they occurred right in front of them.
On this note, sometimes dynamic/shortened links will not have the ‘?’ but resolve to a link that does when you visit the link. TikTok does this with shared links.
When sharing a link from social media share buttons, always paste the copied link into a browser to resolve the real URL, then trim out the tracking IDs as above.
And sabaton have made a song about this guy, come on Sabaton..😞 I refuse to like this song (it's not even good), but come on guys, was it necessary to write this, at least in such a way?..
4years ago I discovered Sabaton and they were ~the only band I used to listen to. Having lyrics that arent the typical love stories made a difference. They seem to be a rather rare mix of history and power metal (I think I tend to be attracted by "angry/powerful" music.) Plus, it made me even more interested in history. In ~1-2years I had listened to ~all their discography and even went to their concert (my first one🙃). Ever since I found many other bands and artists from various genres (with also the help of a friend) so my Sabaton intake has decreased (currently trying to find communist/anarchist greek rap, I have found at least one ~good band).
But, ughh, they have some bad songs, in a bad way. Soldier of 3 armies, ghost division, back in control and some others would probably be better if they didnt make them (they also seem to be a bit too proud of their Swedish history which I find kinda alarming). I kiiiinda get their excitement over powerful people and machines (even if I ~don't get excited about it), but they could choose something else to sing about. They tend to be "neutral", but they are the ones who choose the topics for each song.
On the other hand, in bismark, rise of evil, final solution etc. I find them to paint the nazis negatively which keep me from saying that they are nazis. I also really like all their anti-war/religion songs.
I'd like to see a kinda "leftist" version of them. I have a feeling that either they lean to the right or they don't want to voice any leftist opinions because they might lose a big part of their audience (I happen to know people who listen to them a lot and some have very strong leftist and others have right wing (even neo-nazi..) opinions). They give me some mixed signals with the songs they produce.
I try to keep their good stuff, but I keep having mixed feelings (especially if I am to go to another concert of theirs).