... so not much has changed in a hundred years then.
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Now we also have climate dread and mass surveillance.
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? 🤷
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.
I think maybe a kind of servant that work around the house as in when a fancy lady would say "You must be exhausted from all that fox trotting! I'll have the girl run you a bath" 🤷
That's a good idea for a lemmy community. Maybe I'll set one up for that.
Ok actually, I just wrote a bot that reposts pictures from the subreddit to a Lemmy community, so you can still have them in your feed :-D
I just want to add that currently the extremist right polls quite high in Germany. In some states its the second largest party.
Yeah but luckily they have some friends in the US now.
They did the last time as well.
Wouldn't want the fascists to feel lonely.
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.
Don't forget the virus at the start of the 20s....
Hey at least we skipped the first
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.
Sorry I collapsed the Ottoman Empire I didn't mean to :(
The rampant fascism is missing from the list. But all good otherwise.
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
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!
Is this a paradox?
A bygone era yes
Soooooo...
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Women have it way easier now. Especially when there's a conflict between them and a man.
that's the only difference
You mean the part where most women I know get harassed or groped when they go clubbing, and bars letting only men do rounds to retrieve glasses since the women get groped to the point they cannot work?
Yeah, no, way easier.
Just to be pedantic: they have it easier now. They are allowed to vote for example. But we are obviously not "there" yet, as your example vividly shows.
They do say history repeats.
Wealth inequality is in an all time high.
We (US) are at war with Russia (proxy war, we keep poking the bear using NATO) and we are also going for Taiwan (poking the panda, China).
I would say the main struggle is: wealthy class vs working class.
Ukraine is at warwith Russia because they got invaded, don't twist it
The only major difference between THESE twenties and THOSE twenties is that people had nicer clothes back then. :P
I see Wales is reducing their speed limits to 20mph