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."
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).
You just explained a large selection of boomers.
Yeah, a lot of them were born in the 1950s.
Why the Nazis are back, and in America of all places
Why the Nazis are back
That’s easy, people still wave the Confederate flag and that happened 90 years before the 1950’s.
Ironically, the confederate worship started in the 50’s and 60’s during the civil rights era. It was basically a rebellion against the civil rights movement, and an attempt to intimidate black people back into silence. Like “oh you want to use the same bathroom as us now? Well you can’t stop us from erecting this statue of a confederate general, to constantly remind you where you came from.” So depending on when exactly they came from in the 50’s, the confederate stuff may also be a surprise.
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.
"Yes, they are allowed to be on the same bus as us. No, we don't call them that anymore"
And we had a pretty great black president.
"Bus? No we bulldozed hundreds of neighborhoods to build highways so now everyone has to have a car"
Depends where they appeared
And which person from the 1950s
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.
That smoking is bad for them. You'd just be banging your head against their socially-acceptable-at-the-time drug addiction.
I read your response and immediately thought of homosexuality. That would be hard to explain, why now we have a big pride parade celebrating it. (Im gay, dont com at me!)
That shitty actor from Bedtime for Bonzo becomes president.
"Ronald Reagan, the actor?!"
And he made life worse for nearly everyone.
"Then who's vice-president, Jerry Lewis?"
A significant chunk of Americans support Russia over their own country and are actually opposed to the US providing aid to a country being attacked by Russia. I mean, I guess they had the Red Scare, but this is more Americans opposed to Left-leaning politics who support Russia's authoritarianism.
If they are from the US, it's probably that leading republican candidates don't see Russia waging war on a democratic country as a problem.
#3 Why we still haven't got colonies on the moon
#2 Climate change
#1 That fascism is back
they knew about climate change in the 50's- actually, greenhouse gases were first proposed in the 1820s.
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.
You have to goto the store to buy milk instead of having it delivered fresh
How nothing got better and people like killing children in the school system as sport. Oh, and ask this person what pronouns they want for their identity.
"You see, the file itself can be copied by anyone, but this one little piece of metadata can never be duplicated. That means you own the file."
A lack of 'whites only' signs.
The return of the Nazis
Fediverse
This one is hard to explain to people from the 2020s
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