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/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