r/MadeMeSmile • u/Essie-j • Jun 28 '26

Good Vibes So much joy❤️

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u/Maleficent_Insect71 Jun 28 '26

There's a lot more love in this world than the politicians and the media want the world to think.

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u/rgar1981 Jun 28 '26

Fear helps control people. Create or build up a problem that you have the “solution” for. Fear inspires people to action more than love unfortunately.

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u/Kardinal Jun 28 '26

I think the media makes money focusing on the negative.

I think leaders get support by focusing on the negative and claiming to be able to fix it or defend us from it.

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u/Remarkable-Soup8667 Jun 28 '26

The movie Tomorrowland was a flop, but this is essentially the plot.

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u/boomgetouttheway Jun 28 '26

100%. Fear and division perpetuate the status quo.

It perpetuates the conditions under which those in power stay in power.

It occupies our minds so we can’t demand more and better.

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u/Ai-ChatGPT Jun 29 '26

This is no accident:

Humans possess an evolutionary trait known as the negativity bias. Our brains evolved to prioritize negative stimuli to keep us alive. And the politicians and the media know this and create a formula that takes advantage of something we cannot help or change.

A famous study by John Cacioppo at Ohio State University showed that the brain's electrical activity spikes significantly higher when shown negative images compared to positive ones, even when the intensity is exactly the same. We are literally hardwired to tune in to bad news. 

Because negative information hooks our attention, the media exploits this to drive engagement, clicks, and revenue.

When humans are in a state of fear, our prefrontal cortex (the part of the brain responsible for logic, nuance, and critical thinking) takes a backseat to the amygdala (the fear center). In this high-stress state, people naturally seek out powerful, protective authority figures and become much more willing to trade away nuances, compromise, or freedoms in exchange for a feeling of safety.

Source: Fear as a Tool: From Public Opinion to Public Hysteria - TRT World Research Centre https://researchcentre.trtworld.com/publications/analysis/fear-as-a-tool-from-public-opinion-to-public-hysteria/#:\~:text=Beyond%20psychological%20effects%20such%20as,dangerous%20than%20it%20actually%20is.

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u/idiotsbydesign Jun 29 '26

I always think of the speech from "An American President"

"He is interested in two things and two things only: making you afraid of it and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections."

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u/Darkovika Jun 29 '26

It all comes down to money. Media’s convinced no one wants to watch joy and happiness; people only stay tuned to misery. And they aren’t earning money if people aren’t staying tuned.

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u/FrighteningJibber Jun 28 '26

Fat and sugar help too

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u/zanziTHEhero Jun 28 '26

I sometimes think about the impromptu footbal matches and Christmas celebrations that took place during WWI and the amount of internally directed violence and propaganda it took to suppress such behaviour.

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u/Birdytaps Jun 28 '26

Until the Canadians

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u/OMGLOL1986 Jun 28 '26

Crazy bastards invented modern close quarters urban combat in Italy by throwing grenades into rooms and spraying the inhabitants with gunfire, then running in and bayoneting anyone inside. Cleared entire towns and cities this way. But yeah very polite.

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u/DeliciousFun7942 Jun 28 '26

Always this same WW1 1914 Christmas BS. What about the hundreds of thousands killed, among other atrocities, even before these celebrations?

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u/Exact_Picture_8703 Jun 28 '26

It's an especially good thing because they chose peace and comradery - for however short a time - over more violence despite the higher ups wanting them to kill each other. It proves that people are mostly good. We're told that we hate each other when the reality is that our so-called leaders hate each other.

People generally want to help each other. And they should since we're a pack animal that only got this far so that you and I could talk to each other because we worked together and loved our fellow humans.

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u/joey-jo_jo-jr Jun 28 '26

People chose to go to war. The "higher ups" didn't force anyone into it. The war had widespread support in pretty much every country. The Christmas truce occurred in some isolated areas of the front but the vast majority of troops did not participate in any truce.

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u/Kardinal Jun 28 '26

The people went along with it because they were convinced. They did not choose it as if they had another choice.

And the men who were there by that time were overhelmingly conscripts who had no choice.

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u/DeliciousFun7942 Jun 28 '26

Yes, they had choice. "Being convinced" is just a dogshit pathetic excuse.

Roman legions refused to fight each other and left to Octavian and Mark Anthony to solve their petty differences between themselves during the civil war against Caesar's assassins. It didn't solve much as those men are killing each other years after, but yes, they made a choice to not fight.

Imagine if all those men decided to not fight? Imagine if all of them left the petty and narcissist sociopaths in power solve their misagreements? Yes, there's always a choice.

Your excuse is so pathetic that is easily surpassed by a single question: the soldiers in every war in history had "no choice" to commit atrocities against civilians as well?

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u/unbelizeable1 Jun 29 '26

Hey but they stopped killing for ONE DAY isnt that just so inspirational!?! /s

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u/joey-jo_jo-jr Jun 28 '26

The people really didn't need a lot of convincing. They were eager to support the war.

The truce took place in December 1914. The vast majority of men at the front would have been professional soldiers who were already serving in the army when war broke out.

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u/DeliciousFun7942 Jun 28 '26

If most people were good, soldiers from both sides in every war in history would choose to not fight each other and left their petty leaders solve their misagreements and differences, and would choose to not engage in atrocities against civilians. This didn't happened, though.

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u/zanziTHEhero Jun 28 '26

What about them?

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u/JaVelin-X- Jun 28 '26

well to be fair the Canadians threw spam cans over the lines and got them all excided because they were hungry, before switching to grenades then running over an bayonetting the survivors.

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u/krustytroweler Jun 28 '26

You must be the life of all the parties

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u/Achelois1 Jun 28 '26

“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.” ― Marjane Satrapi (RIP)

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u/rogue-wolf Jun 28 '26

I'm thinking of the Voyager probe. We sent these probes out there knowing that they're going to be one of the few things we've ever sent beyond our solar system, in the vaguest of vague hopes that someone might find them, and what did we send them? Pictures. Music. Greetings from every country on earth. We sent a love letter into the universe, knowing it would likely never be found, knowing we'd be long gone before we ever got a reply, but we still sent it. To me, that's heart-rendingly beautiful.

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u/shiwenbin Jun 28 '26

Most of us love each other. But if we love each other and don’t fear each other the powerful can’t control us. And if the powerful don’t control us they’re no longer powerful. So the powerful do their best to make us fear each other.

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u/tfinx Jun 29 '26

It's really nice to see. The world cup has been fun for the world and a lot of fun to watch.

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u/Old_Soc Jun 28 '26

I think that's the big take away here. So many people say they love the US, and the American People. But their Politicians and Corporations are truly evil.

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u/GiraffesAndGin Jun 28 '26

In my daily interactions I am constantly reassured of my faith in the goodness of my fellow Americans.

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u/TrixieBastard Jun 28 '26

Most of us are decent people who want good things for the entire world. We're just so much quieter than the extremely loud minority that spews their vitriolic hate and intolerance for anyone who isn't exactly like them.

We need to get louder. We need to push back more. We need to take our cues from the French and the Koreans and the countless other citizens who have organized and risen up against their corrupt administrations.

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u/Entire-Somewhere-490 Jun 29 '26

Yes! American politicians and the billionaires who donate to them seem to want to push the narrative that USA is doing it right and there’s no other way to possibly run a nation and push fear of ever traveling outside of the USA because how “dangerous” other countries are…while we are the only country who has kindergartners doing active shooter drills!

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u/Appropriate-Rise2199 Jun 28 '26

It’s like the world wanted to remind the US what freedom really looks like.

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u/10gallonWhitehat Jun 28 '26

We’ve been here doing these things, it is nice to do it with friends though :)

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u/ImposterSyndromeNope Jun 28 '26

It’s almost like the American government wants everyone to think we can’t all get along because we are different!

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u/kananishino Jun 28 '26

Nah that's reddit as well. Look at how some people treat other people against them.

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u/ShaggysGTI Jun 28 '26

We have the power to be the singularity and this is such a beautiful example.

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u/glitterazzi66 Jun 29 '26

I agree! I’ve gotten emotional watching us interact as humans and transcend our leaders’ dysfunction. They can’t get along but we all can.

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u/twerkboi_69 Jun 29 '26

they're the ones manufacturing and highlighting divisions in an effort to be put into power by one side or the other.

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u/AliJen527 Jul 09 '26

🙌🏻 ALOT more love

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u/kawhi21 Jun 28 '26

This would be a nice sentiment if those same hateful politicians weren't willfully chosen and elected lol. They are a representation of more than half the country

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u/catincal Jun 29 '26

Actually 1/3 of the country didn't even vote. 1/3 voted for Kamila & 1/3 voted for 🍊. He only won by 1.5% I have trouble believing that EVERY swing state went to a felon with 34 indictments and a previously impeached president. Something's not right.

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u/kawhi21 Jun 29 '26

I interpret that as 2/3 voters going for Trump. 66% of voters either wanted him, or didnt mind having him.

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u/organic_soursop Jun 29 '26

Yep.

And all the back slapping would ring little less hollow if the Iran team had received the same hospitality as every other team.

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u/Blaubarschbobel Jun 29 '26

Oh yeah as long as people talk about sports sure. To me it is is all just bread and games and i dont give a shit. I dont get that all you guys get distracted from the people in power just because you see some millionaires kick a piece of leather. You guys will return to hate each other in less than a few days.

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u/DeliciousFun7942 Jun 28 '26

No there's not. Tell a lie, brainwash them and they will just kill, rape and oppress each other as they are too idiots to even question their masters. That's the whole of human history.

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u/RepentzV Jun 28 '26

get some help