| ▲ | alstonite 7 hours ago |
| It’s interesting to see a country’s internal rank of its own happiness against how I would rank them using my worldview. Israel for example seems like a place that would be fairly unhappy right now given world events, but they rank quite highly. Saudi Arabia also sticks out as unexpected. It seems in the media I hear about their government being quite oppressive (especially against women), so seeing them just above the US is surprising. |
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| ▲ | 10xDev 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| >Israel for example seems like a place that would be fairly unhappy right now given world events, but they rank quite highly. I'm really confused at how people still believe the narrative that Israel is a weak country that is suffering. They are causing the suffering. |
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| ▲ | magic_hamster 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Tell that to the 1200+ civilians murdered, raped, mutilated and burned alive on October 7th. Israel is not a weak country but it has definitely been tested in the amount of pain it suffered. | | |
| ▲ | dragonwriter 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Tell that to the 1200+ civilians murdered, raped, mutilated and burned alive on October 7th. It's pretty clear that a substantial number of them were killed by the Israeli military in the course of its deliberate war crime of indiscriminate attack with civilians in the line of fire under the "Hannibal Directive". Investigations by Israeli and Western media and numerous Israeli (both military sources and civilian witnesses) accounts support this. Its gotten relatively little play in US media specifically, but US media acts as a propaganda arm of the IDF and the Israeli government as much (even more, arguably) than it does for the domestic military and police forces, ignoring damaging stories, and when it can't completely ignore them using exonerative and passive voice framing to avoid attributing effects to the actors and actions causing them. | | |
| ▲ | magic_hamster 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > substantial number of them were killed by the Israeli military Let me stop you right there, the Palestinian (hamas) raid on Israel was livestreamed for the psychological terror effect, and there is absolutely a mountain of videos showing how everything happened. There's an overwhelming number of witness accounts telling the horrors committed by Palestinians towards families in their homes, the music festival, etc. You can still visit the places they torched ny hand. Please don't spread disinformation on October 7th. | | |
| ▲ | dragonwriter 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Let me stop you right there, the Palestinian (hamas) raid on Israel was livestreamed for the psychological terror effect, and there is absolutely a mountain of videos showing how everything happened. No, there aren't videos showing how "everything" happened. There are videos showing a part of what happened, and you are extrapolating how everything happened from the subset of those that you have seen, even though you acknowledge that they were created as a propaganda effort to create exactly the impression you have derived from them. | | |
| ▲ | magic_hamster 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The videos, the security cameras footage, alongside numerous first hand accounts paint a very clear, minute by minute picture, which I'm not sure you bothered to look into. Hamas raided numerous towns near Gaza where they murdered people and children in their homes. This is where most people died. This and the music festival where people literally came to dance peacefully. Under no circumstances did IDF kill 1200 Israeli civilians on October 7th, or "a substantial" part. This is disinformation and Hamas propaganda, and any source even implying this is lying to your face. |
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| ▲ | dannyphantom 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| IMO, everyone on Earth has to reconcile with their current circumstances and make the choice to go about life with a positive or negative disposition in spite of those circumstances. |
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| ▲ | card_zero 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Perhaps all the Saudi men are very happy. |
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| ▲ | scythe 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Another big surprise is Mexico. It seems like every day there's another gory story about a bunch of people disappearing or getting shot in a gang war. But they're the second-highest ranked in North America at #12, behind only Costa Rica. Israel I think is similar to Costa Rica in that whatever problems Israelis have, they look around at their neighbors and realize how much worse it could be. |
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| ▲ | bombcar 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Maybe they're ranking themselves so high because they're not in the "bunch of people gorily disappeared." |
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| ▲ | myth_drannon 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It had a huge drop in positive emotions due to the war with Gaza in 2023. Actually, negative emotions were higher than positive which is sad and expected.
But the index includes many metrics that don't change rapidly like GDP, life expactancy.. so any short conflict will not have outsized effect. |
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| ▲ | magic_hamster 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | There might have been a huge drop due to the atrocities on October 7th which caused the Gaza war. |
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| ▲ | deadbabe 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| In Israel they use happiness as a rebellion. You try to kill them, you say what you want, but they don’t care, they stay happy. It fuels their enemy’s rage. |
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| ▲ | 10xDev 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | No they just call you an antisemite and ask America to bomb you. | | |
| ▲ | magic_hamster 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not really? The current conflict with Iran is entirely a joint venture where Israel is taking on a significant portion. In previous conflicts the US was marginally involved and even pushed Israel to stop fighting entirely. I don't think you have a good grasp on these events. |
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| ▲ | myth_drannon 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, maybe. It's the old jewish way of dealing with being powerless in exile. You try to hit us, we smile and joke. It's not healthy. I think it's now more about gaining power as a nation and not being at the mercy of those who seek to destroy us. |
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| ▲ | whoknowsidont 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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| ▲ | honeycrispy 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Too bad there's no one to shield Israel's neighbors from experiencing the consequence of theirs, eh? | | |
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