Twenties rule

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

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.

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 😁
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

!100yearsago@sh.itjust.works
That's a good idea for a lemmy community. Maybe I'll set one up for that.
- I just set up a reposter bot
  
  !100yearsago@sh.itjust.works

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.
- Just like 100 years ago. Where do you think Hitler got most of his ideas about black people from?
- Wouldn't want the fascists to feel lonely.
- They did the last time as well.
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 :/
At least Germany now has a more robustly designed constitution

Plus fascism was on the rise!

!RemindMe 20yrs

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

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

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?

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

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

A bygone era yes

Soooooo...

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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Time is a flat circle

Time is a flat circle.

I see Wales is reducing their speed limits to 20mph