Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.
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"Man fired for criticising homosexuality", or maybe "man imprisoned for refusing to hire black person".
People are thinking about technology, but in 1923 people were very familiar with breathtaking technological change. The complete reversal of some social norms, on the other hand, would be almost existentially disturbing to these dudes who believe in the great benevolent Christian empires, and in some cases thought ending slavery was a mistake.
I have to wonder what the residents of the 1920's third world would think. I'm sure there would be many interesting perspectives.
Probably all the climate change shit
Also if you told a guy from 1923 that the world's most industrialized nation was China they'd probably accuse you of lying
Least ignorant liberal
What does it say on all your consumer goods again?
Taiwan, Germany, Canada, EU...
I take quality over slave labor and shit falling apart after a year...
I'm sure you don't own anything made in China then. Canada, famous producer of consumer goods
Whatever little is actually made in Western countries anymore is shit quality designed to fall apart to make more profit just like everything else.
winnie pooh is pleased with your doing
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Nothing never happened day:
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WINNIE THE POOH TAIANAMMENNMEN 1989 CHINESE CAN ONLY DO BOOTLEGS
(totes not racist to show an Asian man with yellow skin btw)Can you do
SOCIAL CREDIT so we can do all the greatest hits?China is such an excellent test for how gullible someone is. So many people will believe any bad thing they read on the internet about it, no matter how absurd, and no matter how easy it is to disprove.
https://www.shanghaidisneyresort.com/en/entertainment/theme-park/characters-meet-pooh/
So there's a whole fucking Hundred Acre Wood exhibit, Pooh and all, but I guess if you text someone about it Xi appears from under your bed and black bags you?
have you even seen the video of the thing that never happened?
Well I do have one, but only this one item from Germany which I would say is pretty good. A Lamy Safari.
But that is seriously my only thing at home from Germany which I would consider high quality, hell all my Thinkpads are from China after all. Lmao
So they excel at trinkets maybe? Lol
Most international experts consider the outbreak of a third world war unlikely in spite of global surges of violence
Not mundane, but the implications would be horrifying to 1923 society still recovering from "The Great War".
And funny enough, still misleading about how soon the next one is. Nukes really changed the game (for better or worse) and they don't have them yet.
Climate change, same sex marriage (though, perhaps not as shocking as some might expect, ditto anything trans related), potential mars colonization, coming off the heels of the Spanish flu, COVID news would probably freak em out. Ooh, the USSR being gone, and China being a world super power. The USSR would have been new to them, and it collapsing less than a century later would probably feel quite odd, especially if you could make them understand just how incredibly advanced the USSR got in such a short amount of time. Tons of stuff.
potential mars colonization
Yeah because we're real close to doing that in 2023
1923, virtually every capitalist country in the world had just invaded the USSR 5 years ago, Japan only pulled out in 1922.
The USSR being gone only becomes shocking post WWII when they went from an agrarian nation wracked by civil war and famine, with zero tractor factories to sending 100,000 tanks into Germany 20 years later to putting a man in space 20 years after that.
Quite a few people would be probably surprised that colonial empires are no more
as for headlines: British PM Rishi Sunak negotiates Scottish independence with First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf
Neocolonialism is alive and well though. Today we have more slaves making more products, than ever before !
in 1923 that idea was not really that shocking and already talked about.
You can buy groceries from a mechanical grocer, but it’ll accuse you of shoplifting like three times while checking you out.
while checking you out
I'm sick of those suggestive robotic winks, and the vulgar gestures every time I scan a banana
"A N***** WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT. AMERICA HAS LOST ITS WAYS TO INSANITY"
"F*****S PARADE AROUND THE CITY AND THEY WERENT SHOT AT FIRST SIGHT"
"PATRIOT ARRESTED FOR BURNING CROSSES"
"PEOPLE CLAIMING STATE AND CHURCH SHOULD BE SEPARATED ARE NOT FIT FOR OFFICE, THEY ARE COMMUNIST TRAITORS"
That nearly everyone is carrying a tracking device with them, designed to disguise itself as a convenient entertainment device.
Given this is the era of rising totalitarianism, maybe the surprise would be that there's no legal penalty for not carrying it; people just choose to to the point life will be difficult if you buck the trend.
I would guess pretty much everything about our current world would freak out people from a century ago
"Russian control of Crimea contested"
"Egyptian controlled Suez blocked"
"France controls British power infrastructure"
