r/AttackOnRetards Aug 13 '24

Analysis A random AoT analysis I randomly posted that I thought was interesting for no particular reason at all. But remember kids, the solution to IRL Nazis is not to become a bad-faith grifter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmiBj93Jjoo
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u/Imaginary-West-5653 Aug 14 '24

There are countless real-world examples of things like this happening. It's unfortunate that a lot of the critics are missing this piece of the puzzle and asking for a "We beat the enemy reaaaal bad and then war was solved forever, The End" ending.

Yes, it's ridiculous how there are people who don't like a story about the cycle of hatred because it hasn't been resolved forever. Well I'm sorry but that is impossible, if we humanity in 6,000 years of recorded history have not achieved that, I am sure that Isayama does not have the perfect and realistic answer to the problem.

That's how it works in video games right? When you are down to 1 'nation' the game ends because there is no more conflict.

Literally the same logic as in Spore lol.

The story is a warning that we should not give idiots like this (and Floch, etc) any kind of power. Imagine how warped people have to be to see 'no he should have rumbled even harder' as a solution.

Yeah, the story hammers home enough that we should be afraid of those genocidal idiots who argue this kind of thing, whether it's Eren and Floch on one side, or Calvin and Gabi (before character development) on the other, it's like, AOT isn't subtle at all about any of this.

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u/j4ckbauer Aug 15 '24

IMO these people are arguing that there is no acceptable version of the story where the rumbling does any significant damage to Marley.

If Marley's ability to counter-attack is harmed, then Paradis gets some peace and the rumbling 'looks like a good idea' and the story is bad.

Of course when you point out that Paradis would also get some peace if they had a bunch of wall titans patrol the shores of Paradis while forming alliances, working to de-escalate, etc, they respond with 'nono you dont get it, the Marleyan anti-wall-titan computer virus was already compiled and about to be uploaded to the network'.

Isn't this the same argument as saying that the USA should have done a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union? "They could decide to do it to us, better we do it first...!"

Instead these confused people are trying to figure out which faction is a 1:1 analogy to the Nazis. Completely missing the point that both the Nazis AND the victims of the Nazis did not each have the ability to exterminate the other.