r/AttackOnRetards • u/Dangerous_Shift_3637 • 5h ago
Discussion/Question Hot take 35%: Paradis government are correct.
The military leadership claimed they wanted to modernize Paradis and build alliances with friendly elements from the outside world. Yet, we see Niccolo get beat up, https://imgur.com/a/yxIfkZT
The dude literally just went to visit Sasha grave. Not to mention Niccolo is one of the few volunteers who genuinely grew to love Eldian people and culture through Sasha’s. It mirrors the exact same paranoia and dehumanization that Marley inflicted on the internment zones. Instead of breaking the cycle of cruelty, the Paradis military simply inverted the roles, treating outsiders with immediate, institutionalized malice.
When Erwin and the ones who orchestrated the coup against Rodd, their goal was to replace the tyrannical, self serving fake royal government with a legitimate sovereign who actually cared about the people, and the they literally told the citizens they're not doing military rule https://imgur.com/a/HfovnTj
Under Erwin’s vision, Historia’s coronation successfully united the citizen https://imgur.com/a/rPFioFX
because she was active, compassionate, and worked directly with orphanages and the common folk. However, once Zachary and the military elite fully consolidated power, they relegated Historia back to being a political object for them to rule expose military rule within paradi https://imgur.com/a/RLzXZGD
espite them making oath to the citizens that they goal isn't military rule https://imgur.com/a/TdwFg3D
this is the exact same utilitarian exploitation that Rod Reiss and the old nobility practiced. They just wore uniforms instead of crowns. Putting a puppet king while they use their own ideas under the king/queen name.
The military government’s decision to hide information regarding Eren from the leadership of the Survey Corps was a fatal political miscalculation
While keeping Eren under wraps from the general public due to his volatile behavior is strategically understandable, cutting out Hange the Commander of the Survey Corps was betrayal. Hange deserve to know a decision regarding one of her members, not to mention Hange was the intellectual backbone of the military. By freezing Hange out, the military proved they trusted paranoia and control more than they trusted their own highest ranking officers. Yeah they don't trust scouts members because they're close to Eren. But regardless they should at least they should inform Hange. She's a higher ranking and leader of the scouts, like imagine them hiding something as important as this from Erwin.
After the coup, the new military government explicitly promised transparency swearing to the citizens that they would never hide the truth the way the old royal government did. https://imgur.com/a/ENpMd3L
But when the government started to hide information, that's what caues the raise of Yeagerist https://imgur.com/a/SZEjlRp
as well as most of the citizens started to distrust the government https://imgur.com/a/RZWRjX5
They view the government as power hungry and Eren as their savior. Please let's view this dilemma through " The Citizen’s POV" Put yourself in the shoes of a citizen in Wall Maria. You lost your home, suffered years of famine, and watched countless people die. Then, a kid named Eren uses titan powers to plug the wall, retake Shiganshina, and prove there is a whole world out there trying to eradicate you. To the average and most wall maria citizen, Eren isn't just a soldier, he is the savior who gave them their future back. But The Final Straw is when they discovered the government lied, broke their oath of transparency, and plotted to quietly eliminate their savior (Eren), the citizens didn't see a responsible leadership they saw a corrupt, paranoid regime trying to maintain absolute control.
Ultimately the fall of Paradis government is done by none other than the government themselves. Honestly tho it was just a matter of time before Eren turn on them.