Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

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The Titanic sinking kills five more

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Lol, brilliant answer. I never would have thought of that.

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i fucking squealed holy shit ahhhhhh shoulder cramp

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Crackle, and pop.

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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.

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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

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And even nowadays they’d be right to do so…

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Least ignorant liberal

What does it say on all your consumer goods again?

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Taiwan, Germany, Canada, EU…

I take quality over slave labor and shit falling apart after a year…

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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”.

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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.

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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.

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potential mars colonization

Yeah because we’re real close to doing that in 2023

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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.

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