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I don't even think I've ever seen people arguing it, just making the assertion without evidence.

Notwithstanding that 40k had highly serious elements from the start. It was never just a joke.

And ... even in 1st Edition Chaos and the entities of the Warp are still a real threat, the Emperor is still a superbeing whose goal is to safely guide the ascension of humanity.

It's a rather bizarre pathology, the demonisation of whoever is "in charge" simply for being "in charge" - and the concomitant glorification of "the underdog" simply for being "the underdog".

I wouldn't call early 40k a parody so much as a ramshackle mixture of various science-fiction and fantasy works in British pop-culture at the time, so much as D&D was a ramshackle mixture of various high-fantasy and sword-and-sorcery works - and nobody calls D&D a parody!

Apparently the Sigmarxism chaps are unironically supporting Iran after the recent incident ... ... while still considering fans of the IoM to be "crypto-fascists".

The vast majority of the Imperium's planets are in fact Civilised Worlds, which generally are more authoritarian versions of our Earth with access to science-fictional levels of tech.

"Is not an Underhive slum-dweller".

I can remember browsing it in the interests of morbid curiosity to see that one of their members posted an idea for a "good version" of the Dark Eldar which boiled down to "the exact same as in canon, but they only do what they do to privileged members of Imperial society".

In my experience that sort tend to be unironic Chaosboos.

Ironically China is the closest equivalent today to the old-style fascist regimes of the 30s. Also, its lulzworthy how they're openly taking a stand in favour of a real tyrannical oppressive regime when they probably consider people liking the Imperium to be proof that they're fascist.

What I have to find telling given that information is the reference to "sinophobia" (otherwise known as "criticism of the PRC") in the list at the bottom of that Reddit post.

Far-left Warhammer fans.