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[–] 3arn0wl 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

... so not much has changed in a hundred years then.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now we also have climate dread and mass surveillance.

[–] Sheeple 20 points 1 year ago

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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[–] _number8_ 59 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow I wish they were on her

[–] Viking_Hippie 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what..he said? 🤷

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Whoops, I ment here

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I found this one to be particularly interesting. Based Jule Cantwell and Helen Unger was right on with "lots" - it remains quiet popular!

[–] Viking_Hippie 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 😁

[–] Ryumast3r 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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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[–] Ryumast3r 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a good idea for a lemmy community. Maybe I'll set one up for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just set up a reposter bot

[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just want to add that currently the extremist right polls quite high in Germany. In some states its the second largest party.

[–] Sheeple 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 :/

[–] EnmaAi22 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] lateraltwo 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if there's a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis

[–] EnmaAi22 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Sheeple 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] EnmaAi22 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah but luckily they have some friends in the US now.

[–] Viking_Hippie 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just like 100 years ago. Where do you think Hitler got most of his ideas about black people from?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The English, Scandinavian and European aristocracy?

[–] Viking_Hippie 3 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They did the last time as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

At least Germany now has a more robustly designed constitution

[–] Viking_Hippie 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plus fascism was on the rise!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Don’t forget, they were just out of a worldwide pandemic that killed tens of millions.

[–] Resol 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry I collapsed the Ottoman Empire I didn't mean to :(

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget the virus at the start of the 20s....

[–] Something_Complex 9 points 1 year ago

Hey at least we skipped the first

[–] bouh 17 points 1 year ago

The rampant fascism is missing from the list. But all good otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So say we all!

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[–] Agent641 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Electro swing is back in vouge too

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Agent641 9 points 1 year ago

Harambe died for our electro-swing

[–] BrisvegasLukass 9 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

A bygone era yes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The only major difference between THESE twenties and THOSE twenties is that people had nicer clothes back then. :P

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ghost has a fantastic song covering this exact topic with the exact same title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ-pxlKgiTI

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[–] Drewsteau 3 points 1 year ago

Time is a flat circle

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I see Wales is reducing their speed limits to 20mph

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