… so not much has changed in a hundred years then.
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
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.
That’s a good idea for a lemmy community. Maybe I’ll set one up for that.
I just set up a reposter bot
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.
Just like 100 years ago. Where do you think Hitler got most of his ideas about black people from?
Don’t forget, they were just out of a worldwide pandemic that killed tens of millions.
Plus fascism was on the rise!
