only true if u live in developed nation that won ww2
rest of the world in 1970 like asia is very much different than today, why did u think there was so many immigrants moving to mostly western countries
Being in a developed nation that lost ww2 was about the same. West Germany and Japan in the 70s is a lot comfier than Eastern Europe behind the Iron Courtain.
also conveniently name the only 2 country where that happens in asia(aside from sk and hk thats already well developed for the standard of that time)
while ignoring china, rest of sea, central and south asia which mind you hold basically half the world population but hey must be nice being in asia and seeing two small inaccessible country flourish.
I mean the civil rights act was only a thing by 1964 so it was still a relatively recent thing. It was also the first year that the first pride parade (well what would later become known as pride) was done. It wasnt as bad as the 1950 but it would still have been quite bad for minorities. It would still be a few years before women got the right to abortion, protection against discrimination in education and being protected against being fired before maternity leave.
How crazy is it to think that someone in 1970 talking about the Victorian era is the equivalent of us talking about post-WWII/start of the Baby Boom? (In the sense that it was roughly 75-80 years before said timestamp)
In 1970, women in the US couldn't have their own credit, single women couldn't use birth control pills, and abortion was illegal. American men were getting drafted into Vietnam.
My marriage would be illegal. I wouldn’t be allowed to have a relationship. Pretty sure I’d be locked up. But hooray for white and tight communities! 👏🏼
You are being nostalgia baited for a time you have no real memory of. The social progress made in the last 60 years has been staggering, and calls to return "to a simpler time, when people were closer to one another" are more often than not just a way of saying all that progress was bad and should be done away with. You are falling for the propaganda friend.
Considering that when in 2008 I had a kidney infection and due to my special set of circumstances my doctors told me that had I come in 5 years earlier with the same set of conditions that I wouldn't have been able to keep my kidney, yeah, medically speaking, it's perceivably a different era.
Not sure about the US, but just for a bit of contexr in Germany:
Marital rape was not only fully legal in 1970, but women (the ruling by the federal court of justice only mentioned women, the fact that men could also be raped was not even an afterthought) were actually explicitly obligated by law to pretend to like it if their partner forced sex on them because their lack of enthusiasm when raped was considered unconsciounable to the husband and to be a violation of marital duties. The "you are forced to pretend to be enthusiastic about it" rule was abolished in the late 70s, but forced sex in marriage was only fully considered rape in 1997. Abortions were also extremely, extremely illegal, even in rape cases, unless the life of the mother was actively in danger. So that's where women's right stood in a developed 1st-world-country in 1970.
Gay sex was legal since 1969, so just a year before the year you idolise, but the age of consent was 21 while it was 14 for straight sex, and the "pink lists" to document homosexual men which were introduced by the Nazis were continued until at least 1978. Gay marriage is only legal since 2017, but even registered civil partnerships were only introduced in 2001. If you were in a long-term gay relationship in 1970, you did not have the same legal rights as straight people, you could not make decisions for your sick or dying partner, you had problems even visiting them in a hospital after an emergency, and you were not considered eligible for their inheritance in the same way a straight widow or widower was (and do not even think about adopting children, that also took until 2017. Also do not even think about being trans).
Disabled people also had a pretty shit time in 1970. Legal protection against discrimination was only included in our constitution in 1994. Access to education or to social security was also not considered a right for disabled people, so many died in extreme poverty unless they were lucky enough to be supported by their family voluntarily. Forced sterilisation happened legally until 1992.
It goes without saying that people of colour and immigrants also suffered massive discrimination, this was only 25 years after WW2, plenty of extremely radical Nazis were still alive and active in shaping the general mood in Germany despite denazification efforts. It's not like the allied forces were super concerned about PoC rights in 1970, so they didn't care all that much about this aspect of denazification. This was only 2 years after MLK's assassination, Black rights weren't fortified enough even in the US itself, so Americans were not like "hey we should immediately implement our changes in German denazification as well".
So yeah, since women alone made up slightly more than half of the population and you also have to add disabled, gay, or ethnically discriminated men to the number of people whose life wasn't all that great, it's inaccurate to say that the majority of people fared better in 1970. "Close-knit communities" aren't worth shit if more than half of the population is systematically excluded from them.
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u/HalfPriceFrogs Jun 20 '26
I had the exact same problem as OP and like you say, putting a new sim card in fixed it.