Well, first step, yes. It’s catchy, that it can spread more than the disinformation, because joy spreads further than anger. Also, if you feel a helplessness in the anger, humor turns it into joy, and that blocks the psychological pathway that turns it into outrage, and so people actually have more mental capacity to look into this thing together, rather than it being a very divisive mood.

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