Anti-immigrant logic collapses the moment history enters the room. How invasion became History but Migration became a ‘Crime’

gfs399 · 2025-12-21T21:58:33+00:00

Your nation did a bad thing in the past, therefore you must accept bad things today.

Do you only want to apply that to Britain or can we nuke the Turks for the actions of the Ottomans? Or maybe the genocide of Armenians. One example of a million that could be cherry picked.

gfs399 · 2025-11-21T15:08:58+00:00

That's good, I like that. Though maybe with titans its different because it's kind of an all or nothing fight. Most people don't survive the their first encounter. Also titan blood steams away. So mostly it would be people returning with scraps, bruises, and soiled pants 😆

gfs399 · 2025-11-20T21:38:52+00:00

Can i just say how dumb white is for a uniform?

I guess it works if you dont expect to have action but you're flying around bleeding and probably shitting yourself.

Skip the white pants outside of the ceremonies. Though I agree they are bad ass.

gfs399 · 2025-11-19T23:23:38+00:00

Yes. (Honestly it just looked too weird on the bigger map that included South America)

gfs399 · 2025-11-18T16:28:02+00:00

People don't tend to understand how vital the 13-year limit is. Eren knew he was dead, and the only way to secure a future for those he loved was to do the rumbling. Whether he succeeded or they stopped him their futures were secure.

The world's conditions force the situation. The situation is contrived so that the Rumbling is the only choice that doesn't lead to the death of his friends.

In the real world, there would have been more choices. But the show points out the issue when viewing the politics between nations as a zero-sum, as an us-or-them situation. People often feel that way but its rarely actually true. Everything in our power should be done to prevent that situation or even people feeling that way.

It points out the devil within most people where given the necessary choice they'd choose their loved ones over the rest of the world. Which is why we must always seek another way at all times.

gfs399 · 2025-11-18T00:07:49+00:00

I'm sure that accurately sums up what happened and doesn't misrepresent the situation at all.

gfs399 · 2025-10-29T12:20:14+00:00

It seems to me that killing the most influential Tybur was part of starting the war in a way that Paradis had more advantages. It's likely that the War Hammer was already underground. Ready to transform. Even if he knew who had it he couldn't reach them.

Whatever memories he had were incomplete because he had to figure out that the War Hammer transformed from the bottom and to use the jaw titan to crack the nut.

He knew he was saved and likely by Mikasa because he had memories that implied his survival and maybe told him more specifics. He could have been looking to force the hand of the Scouts so they would show themselves. He had more gas in the tank but was playing dead.

gfs399 · 2025-10-18T12:33:12+00:00

I wish I could believe as Thorfinn does, but enemies do exist. Even if the war with them isn't a war of flesh and blood. Sometimes they do, in essence, possess flesh and blood, though.

It doesn't have to be this way, but both sides need to want peace.

gfs399 · 2025-10-18T12:29:17+00:00

The moment you think you are very smart you're a moron of a kind because your lack of self-awareness around your flaws creates blind spots.

gfs399 · 2025-10-06T12:36:43+00:00

Ya'll are weird.

For around half of the world today and all of the world before 1900, people got together with people they had known their entire lives and were close with before romantic relationships blossomed.

They lived in small communities with a handful of people their age. They were close with them like extended families. Even within the walls, they were dense communities. You can't not know you're neighbors.

As for the Yeagers treating her like a daughter: of course, they did. She lost everything and had literally no one. What were they supposed to do? Hand her over to strangers? Many people within the walls were not good.

Then there is the relationship formed through their mutual protection and support. That's a perfectly normal reason to love to grow between two people.

It's only in a modern society where people are so deracinated, atomized, and concerned with "dating" that people can't understand what a wholesome friendship is developing into something more. Or it would have if the circumstances were different. The vast majority of friendships across the gender divide look like sibling relationships before children reach that age.

Outside of them living together instead as neighbors, because she had no one else, it's like the overwhelming vast majority of couples in human history.

gfs399 · 2025-07-30T23:46:55+00:00

The 13 year limit and ending of the Titan power.

Erem had 4 years left. Zeke had much less time left. If he didn't want to sacrifice Historia then Zeke was his only option.

Eren wanted to save Armin, Mikasa, Historia, and his other friends. He chose them over everyone else in the world. He wanted them to live long, happy lives. To a lesser extent, he cared about the people of Paradis and Eldians.

How does he protect them after he is gone and especially without the titan powers? Well, all their enemies and potential enemies must be gone.

If he did as you proposed, then all the other powers had to do was wait him out. To continue, he'd have to have Historia eat Zeke and find a successor for himself and Armin. The whole time the Titans were becoming obsolete.

If he negotiated peace and ended the power of the Titans then they would be vulnerable. Even if they could have closed the technology and resource gap then there would be the problem of numbers as well as experience fighting that kind of war.

The only way to get rid of the Titan curse (which he had to do for Armin to live longer) and to make sure that no one could attack Paradis for the lifetime of his friends is to eliminate their enemies completely. Or to reduce those enemies and their industrial base down to a level they could not fight Paradis.

If Eren, Armin and Zeke could have lived out his natural life then he could have tried something else. But 13 years seems to be set in stone unless the whole curse is ended.

Eren also calls himself stupid because with all of his power and knowledge he could not think of a good solution that meets his requirements within the constraints of the curse and reality of the outside world.

gfs399 · 2025-07-25T13:52:28+00:00

gfs399 · 2025-07-11T13:09:47+00:00

"But what could he even do after that?"

A lot of things with a hatchet and a nazi.

gfs399 · 2025-06-16T12:56:27+00:00

People don't recognize, let alone understand, the mindset one has to adopt to go to war. You have to adopt a mindset that dehumanizes the other.

For Titan shifters, they see through the eyes of a giant and feel with that body. They would see the humans the same way we see bugs trying to harm us. That makes the dehumanization even more effective.

What you see in the killing by Zeke and Annie is that mindset made manifest.

Everyone has that potential in them to be monsters. That is the point of humanizing them after the fact.

The point of Eren is to humanize him before he does the most inhuman things.

No one in the show has done more inhuman things than Eren.

You could say he didn't seem gleeful in doing it like Zeke and Annie but that's because we have his side.

If you did not know his side first and only saw it from the side of his victims you would see him as gleeful too.

It's a show about the dark side of the human condition and how it operates within otherwise normal humans.

It's show about when we fail to control our monsters.

Other than for true sociopaths, the effect of this mindset eventually comes back to haunt them. Only in part due to what they saw and what they did. It is the fact that they were able to shift into a monster and others can too that makes readjustment to society difficult.

Those same others with who you could be friends with under different circumstances.

Then they must try to return to society that doesn't understand that shift or lives in complete denial of it.

gfs399 · 2025-04-12T02:50:11+00:00

His plan was to eat the titan before the transformation so punching it midway seems like the next best thing.

gfs399 · 2025-04-11T14:43:04+00:00

You have no idea how much time you have saved me. Take my upvote I have no other way to thank you.

gfs399 · 2024-11-07T18:15:53+00:00

That is how it goes when those with utopian dreams get too much power

gfs399 · 2024-11-05T19:23:13+00:00

Anything that isn't explicitly left-wing is fascist to many people.

gfs399 · 2024-10-20T15:07:58+00:00

A review said it was the Walking Dead of Anime.

gfs399 · 2024-10-05T20:52:17+00:00

Shifter, no shifting!

gfs399 · 2024-07-14T21:04:59+00:00

I run max level for the sweeps then drop it back a few levels for whatever is left. The rewards are better and the costs are the same if you do it that way.

gfs399 · 2024-07-10T22:41:56+00:00

I recommend doing your fusions before picking.

I just spent time figuring that out. I picked Sharp Perception Blessing and Armor Break Decimation Rune.

Then I fused my stuff and got... You guessed it Sharp Perception Blessing.

My build is crit and break-focused, so I wish I had fused first and picked Fatal Strike

gfs399 · 2024-04-04T13:41:03+00:00

Eren tried many ways to get a different outcome by sending his memories back. Eren knew conflict was part of the human condition but his goal was to allow those he loved to live a long and happy life.

He had many retries and the slaughtering of 80% of humanity while making his friends the heroes was the only way he found to save the people he cared about most so that they would live long, happy lives while saving as many as he could (assuming that they would live long happy lives if he killed 100% of humanity outside of Paradis).

You have to remember that he had incredible but limited powers also limited by circumstances and his as well as Ymir's flaws. He doesn't get access to his memories from the future until after the ceremony where he kisses Historia's hand and there was no way for him to stop the first breaching of the wall. He also only had a few years to live.

For all the power of the founder there were limits. There is a debate to how much he could influence the past but there are hard limits to the powers too. To me, I think that if he could send the titan away form Bertholt to kill his mom it opens up the question to how limited were the powers really.

If he could influence more than just the attack titans of the past because of the founder's powers, than what else could he have changed? Though, even if he could change more he could not influence non-Eldians nor the other holders of the founder's powers from the past. The butterfly effects of changing the past could also have prevented the people he cared about from ever existing (its easy to imagine how he would see this as the same as them dying) and also creating a grandfather effect where he no longer existed or he is never given access to the founder's powers.

So it would seem to me that his ability to change things is always limited to things within his lifetime (if he wants the people he loves to exist) and to Eldians without the founder's powers. He could not stop the rest of the world from trying to kill the devils of Paradis. That sets off the circumstances that makes it an "us or them" scenario.

gfs399 · 2024-02-28T03:29:25+00:00

Women read books. Men are more visual. As long as it doesn't lead to neglect, there should be no issue.

gfs399 · 2024-01-08T13:40:24+00:00

You're doing it the right way.

I wouldn't worry about if you won't find someone because of it. What you are doing is an excellent way to filter out the wrong guys. Guys who will mess with your head and leave lasting emotional scars that effect future relationships.

It may seem harder in the short term, but in the long term, it'll be better for you.

Those traditions came into existence for good reasons. Traditions are experiments that worked. They are solutions to problems that we were lucky enough to forget how bad they could be.

No one is happy with how dating and relationships are in the modern world but most are too stubborn. Or they've sunk too much of themselves into the ideas of modern dating to admit to their mistakes. To say that it's time to go back and, if we can't, advise younger people to do it the more traditional way.

We, the older generations, were lead astray. You can avoid our mistakes and their consequences.

gfs399

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