Why are they doing this when he’s at his Hitler stage 🤦‍♂️

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    61 year ago
    Big Spoilers On Everything Because Duh

    Except that he attacked and genocided allied nations as well.

    Not yet, unless they’ve released the second half of the final season.

    And he also just killed billions of innocent people who had nothing to do with their governments policies and were heavily propagandised for a century.

    Sure, but that’s just war for you. The last few episodes had what amounts to a civil war breaking out on Paradise, with a number of the main characters turning on or subverting one another.

    Also the Eldians had a brutal empire which likely practiced apartheid and suppressed non Eldians.

    Ages ago. Modern Subjects of Ymir are locked in ghettos unless they agree to join the Marleyian war effort. In some of the flashback scenes they’re even dressed like ghettoized Jews. Nevermind how many Marleyians are explicitly German coded with the blonde hair and blue eyes.

    Might as well say “Jews are the real fascists because of how awful the Pharisees were”

    I kind of did like the fuck around and find out part of the story when the rumbling started initially on Marleys face but it soon became a far bigger thing which was just horrendous.

    The original set up of the story is a conspiracy by the king to effectively euthenize the existing population. As the seasons unravel the mystery, you begin to see the deeper motivations of the various characters. And this all culminates in the revelation that the Subjects of Ymir are the cursed self-cannibalized offspring of a ruthlessly exploited slave girl.

    The story is endlessly harping on the horrors of war, the hubris of ambitious men, and the horrible errors we make by acting rashly on incomplete information.

    Eren’s Rumbling is the culmination in a nightmarish cycle of wars, enslavements, and bloody uprisings that become genocidal wars themselves. Each faction has some history or social narrative that justifies its subjugation or extermination of the other. Each faction has some enthusiastic hero whose initial climb to power is viewed as liberating, but who ultimately becomes more erratic and dangerous as they accumulate authority.

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      141 year ago

      Oh boy another “everyone is an asshole and the world is shit, therefore just choose your favorite asshole to stan for” setting. debord-tired

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        21 year ago

        Plenty of likeable characters in the setting, but also lots of people who are failable and foolish all the same.

        It’s not really about “Teams” either. More a mystery drama that reveals itself as characters interact and convey perspectives to one another.

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          The Birth of a Nation also had plenty of likeable characters, but also a lot of them were fallible and foolish all the same. fash-infighting

          The Birth of a Nation could be seen as a bit of a mystery drama that reveals itself as characters interact and convey perspectives to one another. scared-fash

    • Sure, but that’s just war for you. The last few episodes had what amounts to a civil war breaking out on Paradise, with a number of the main characters turning on or subverting one another.

      difference between casualties and having an army of giants kill literally everything in its path, with no survivors.

      L comment

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          Its dramatic fiction with magic monsters.

          So was Made in Abyss. awooga libertarian-alert

          So was Goblin Slayer. awooga hypersus

          So was Gate. hypersus bootlicker scared-fash

          So was Shield Hero. JB-shining-aggro awooga libertarian-alert hypersus

          You can enjoy things while also acknowledging that they sometimes have problematic elements that appeal to bad people too.

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            21 year ago

            If your primary critique of Goblin Slayer was “main character was a little too fash for my tastes”… idk, man. That’s on you.

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              idk, man. That’s on you. smuglord

              It isn’t.

              If you’re going to cherrypick what I said in defense of your favorite cartoon, at least cherrypick what I said.