Asklemmy @lemmy.ml Phen @lemmy.eco.br 1y ago

what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?

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

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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
- And even nowadays they'd be right to do so...
  
  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.
  
  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
  
  winnie pooh is pleased with your doing
  
  Nothing never happened day:
  
  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?
  
  Are you really trying to deny reality here? I understand you hate China and am even willing to belive it's ideological and not entirely racist but pretending they're not a global manufacturing powerhouse is next level nuts.
  
  You guys sure love your emoticons

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