... so not much has changed in a hundred years then.
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Now we also have climate dread and mass surveillance.
Don't be fooled. Climate scientists already knew things were going to go bad 80-100 years ago and we still didn't listen to them.
Now just as they predicted, we are in the middle of a climate crisis that is only going to get worse from here.
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one of the Good subs was called 100YearsAgo, people post HQ scans of old newspapers and photos from today in 1923. it's very fascinating seeing how language changed / didn't change, the attitudes around politics, women, prohibition, the minimum wage, etc
Wow I wish they were on her
That's what..he said? 🤷
Whoops, I ment here
I found this one to be particularly interesting. Based Jule Cantwell and Helen Unger was right on with "lots" - it remains quiet popular!
I also like that they list Helen's profession as "home girl ", which has since become a slang term itself, the original use being more or less extinct 😁
Curious what that profession actually is, is it a wife/"homemaker"? Or a paid profession that I couldn't find on Google? I really tried to find that phrasing but in my defense I'm drunk and also Google sucks nowadays.
I would guess she is simply a girl who hasn't left home yet?
Today she would probably be a student, but she isn't studying anything. Maybe she plans to become a housewife rather than train for a career, as that was a viable "career path" in those days.
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That's a good idea for a lemmy community. Maybe I'll set one up for that.
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I just want to add that currently the extremist right polls quite high in Germany. In some states its the second largest party.
Unfortunately the AFD (Nazi party over here. Like there's no sugar coating it. They're literally the Nazi party) has an approval rating of 11% among the population pollswnd it's quite concerning.
I do not like to think about the fact that 1/10 people I meet are straight up neonazis :/
And another 2/10 would have no problem with the AFD gaining power.
Another 2/10 would be indifferent and put up no resistance.
So you have probably half the population who would just let it happen and maybe support it
Another 2/10 would put up light resistance
Another 2/10 would put up strong resistance
And the last 1/10 would actively plan kill and be okay with dying to stop them, leading the resistance.
Now ask yourself: can a facist takeover happen again? In Germany? Maybe the USA?
if there's a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis
Exactly.
Luckily the last time the AFD tried getting into power, literally every other party banded together to block them (over here parties can work together to use their combined power for leverage.)
Unfortunately this move was seen as "controversial" and caused quite a lot of ruckus with the Nazis.
That's been. While ago though iirc. With other right wing parties gaining votes again (mainly CXU), i don't see a CXU/AfD Coalition as impossible anymore.
Yeah but luckily they have some friends in the US now.
Just like 100 years ago. Where do you think Hitler got most of his ideas about black people from?
They did the last time as well.
At least Germany now has a more robustly designed constitution
Don’t forget, they were just out of a worldwide pandemic that killed tens of millions.
The Y2K bug means we're actually living in 1923 again. Which means that the BBC was just founded, silent films are still around, and the Ottoman Empire just collapsed. Also, color isn't invented yet.
So how am I able to post this comment? Idk, use your imagination, I guess.
Don't forget the virus at the start of the 20s....
Hey at least we skipped the first
The rampant fascism is missing from the list. But all good otherwise.
Marx remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He did add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
So say we all!
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Electro swing is back in vouge too
That's the big difference between the 1920s and 2020s. The 1920s had swing, but now that we're in the future we have electro swing! It changes everything
Harambe died for our electro-swing
Soooooo...
A bygone era yes
The only major difference between THESE twenties and THOSE twenties is that people had nicer clothes back then. :P
Ghost has a fantastic song covering this exact topic with the exact same title.
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Time is a flat circle
I see Wales is reducing their speed limits to 20mph
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