Can mods delete content just because they feel like, or there is a protocol? If yes, then what is the use of the rules? Wouldn't it be better if the mods stated the kind of opinions which are acceptable in the rules list, so that people with differing opinions can avoid such subreddits?
Ian Dietrich is so underrated, and the 2nd best leader after Erwin. All the important calls he made turned out to be right. From assigning Mikasa to rear guard(which led her killing an abornal titan and saving 100s in episode 6) to continuing to protect Eren in the battle of Trost after Eren failed to lift the rock at first, every decision he took was correct.
He was also an amazing mentor to Mikasa. He managed her skills brilliantly, and made sure she joined the elite squad protecting Eren. . He was also the first one to recognize Mikasa's feelings for Eren despite knowing her for less than a day, and made her channel those feelings to protect Eren.
In the end, he died protecting a junior member of his squad. I wish he stayed a little longer in the show.
People often conflate criticism of Islam with racism, but that's a false equivalence. Islam is a religion, not a race. Muslims come from various races, like white, black, brown etc. Disagreeing with an ideology like Islam doesn't mean you hate people of a certain race.
I believe Islam, especially in its more orthodox or political forms, is one of the most barbaric cults responsible for various genocides and ethnic cleansing. From the genocide of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Nigerian Christians, to the ethnic cleansing of Bangladeshi Hindus, Kashmiri Pandits, Yemeni Jews, this cult has shown fanatical intolerance to people from other religions.
Most Muslim majority countries have Islam as state religion, and an apartheid legal system based on Sharia. This results in non-Muslims living as second class citizens and their eventual ethnic cleansing. There is nothing racist in hating this cult which has lead to oppression of millions of innocent non-Muslims.
Criticism of these elements should be allowed without automatically being labeled "racist" or "Islamophobic." Just like people can criticize Christianity or Communism without hating Christians or Chinese people, we should be able to discuss Islam honestly.
It is no secret that Reiner and Jean are favourite characters of Hajime Isayama. The entire final season is evidence of this, with Hajime bending every possible logic to show Reiner in a positive light despite doing zero acts of redemption, and literally retconning both Jean and Mikasa to end up together.
Just a day before the Trost attack, Reiner acknowledges the entire 104th cadets to be island demons and not his friends. Reiner also forces the "revenge for Liberio" to be preponed. He made absolutely no counter arguments whatsoever, when Magath talked of eradicating Paradis. He then had the audacity to tell Eren to sleep and give up, so that he could "end" the conflict. But guess what, we all are supposed to ignore all this and root for Reiner for the as a felt bad and cried. If Ad0lf H cried in from Hajime, he'd probably forgive him. This leads me to believe Hajime sees a bit of Reiner in himself, a depressed creep with severe victim complex. He probably blamed the entire world for his failures in school.
Jean was literally retconned. He was the only one who acknowledged that the rumbling was good for Paradis, yet he decided to go ahead with that garbage brain Hange.
And lets not forget Hajime Isayama deliberately jeopardized Erens and Mikasa relationship so that he can give more screentime to mediocre characters like Reiner and co. If their relationship was so vital to the ending, why not spend time on that instead of his half hearted attempt to redeem Reiner.
My personal theory is that Hajime sees himself in both Reiner(a creep with severe victim complex) and Jean(a loser who is obsessed with a girl who ignored him for 10 years, hoping to get her some day). Some girl probably rejected him in his youth because of his "good looks", and he wanted his favorite character to get that girl in this story. This is the reason is why Hajime stopped developing Mikasa's character after season 1. She was the most popular at the time which made Hajime resent her, taking his real life frustrations on her. And this is another reason why he did not develop Eremika in the final season.
I am glad AoT never became the number selling manga in any year. Demons Slayer sold more copies with less chapters. JJK sold significantly more copies even before its anime aired compared to AoT.
I genuinely don't understand why people support the Marleyan Warriors over the people of Paradis.
For 3 seasons, Reiner, Bertholdt and Annie:
And you know the CRAZIEST part about this?
They spent YEARS living among the people of Paradis.They lived with their victims, eating, training, laughing with them, realizing the people inside the walls were NOT “devils.” I can have sympathy for them at the age of 12 when they were brainwashed children, but they knew what they were doing after joining the Survey Corps at the age of 17. Everything happening from Season 1 Episode 4 to Season 4 is on them.
They could have:
But that would have required actual courage and sacrifice. Instead, they chose their own comfort, status, and loved ones over millions of innocent lives. Why?
So please, stop pretending they were "morally grey". They chose to sacrifice MILLIONS OF INNOCENTS a few loved ones as well as higher status in Marleyan society instead of fighting their oppressors. They decided it was alright to kill innocents to save their own skin, like the cowards they are.
And despite all this, the story still bends over backwards to reward them:
Meanwhile Paradis, the actual oppressed nation eventually gets destroyed anyway. So what is the author trying to say? “If you’re oppressed, don’t fight back. Accept your fate for the greater good. If 90 people in a village want to slaughter 10 innocents people, then they should quietly accept their death as fighting back leads to more violence.”
Also, people need to stop acting like Reiner was redeemed because he felt depressed. Feeling guilty is NOT redemption. Redemptions requires acknowledgement, accountability, atonement and amends. Reiner barely did the acknowledgement part. He had YEARS to stop what he was doing and didn’t. In fact, he later pushes Marley to attack Paradis sooner, and was fine with wiping out the island even at the age of 21.
And Annie? She never even apologizes for the horrific things she did. She literally said she'd do everything all over again.
The biggest problem is how the narrative forces us to overlook the following:
And before someone says “but, but, the story is about the cycle of violence”:
Well, one side kills invades a peaceful country, kills millions, and attempts multiple genocides. In they end, they are still humanized, and even considered redeemed.
Meanwhile, as soon as Paradis gets the power to fight back, they are supposed to show empathy to people who haven't done an ounce of redemption
That’s not a cycle of violence. That’s one side getting slaughtered because of suicidal empathy, while a completely new cycle begins with the original genociders still standing.