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Why is every comment just about the US? Skin color, school shooter drills, actor president, support for Russians by US politicians...

Lemmy try something more international:

France and Germany have founded the European Union.

First Japan, and now China (and Taiwan) and Korea are the technological superpowers.

Car industry in the UK basically doesn't exist anymore.

Cuba is still communist af and yet looks like a chill place.

Czechoslovakia has split. (Funny how even 30 years after the fact some people don't believe it, so I can imagine it being inconceivable before.)

There are 8 billon people.

We still don't have nuclear-powered flying cars.

Ronald Reagan was President for 8 years.

#3 Why we still haven't got colonies on the moon

#2 Climate change

#1 That fascism is back

We walk around with a little rectangle in our pocket that gives us access to the sum total of human knowledge, but we mostly use it for looking at funny captioned pictures, the same pictures over and over just with different captions.

It's called a phone but no one ever uses it as one.

School shooter drills

If your tire pressure is low, you have to pay money….for air.

"Yes, they are allowed to be on the same bus as us. No, we don't call them that anymore"

We still work 8 hours/day!

That shitty actor from Bedtime for Bonzo becomes president.

The remote control T_T

Depends a lot on the color of their skin.

How easily we can know anything, yet how diligently we fail to learn anything.

Things they considered morally fine (smoking, dropping litter, 40 year olds dating 16 year olds) is morally reprehensible, while things they thought were morally wrong or even outlawed are totally acceptable (homosexually, porn, divorce).

Why the Nazis are back, and in America of all places

I'm just going to steal the response I read years ago.

"I possess a device, in my pocket, that is capable of accessing the entirety of information known to man. I use it to look at pictures of cats and get into arguments with strangers."

The price of housing

Fediverse

Why the Nazis are back

I'm going to go on a different angle on this one and say that we are much tougher on sexual harassment. I feel like a lot of people from the 1950s who have grown up on pulp sci-fi like Flash Gordon could accept a lot of modern technology and the internet as basically just magic. To be fair is how a lot of modern people also accept it. But I don't think they would be able to process the move towards egalitarianism that we have taken.

That is not to say that modern society is egalitarian only that we have made good strides in achieving that aim.

Edit: Turns out Gordon is from the '70s, but other pulp sci-fi exist so my statement stands.