ayy jack my balls hurt

@@divinity8844 bruh

No u cant make 10 minutes videos instead 5 minutes!

"His mahogony-lined palace"...was "mahogony" a word you were paid to put in? It just seemed so random.

Wait a minute... Is this the guy jet li was fighting in once upon a time in China 2, The guy everyone who thought was bulletproof but actually was just wearing hidden armor

Sounds like something that would happen in 2020.

honestly, same

That how Hitler get over Germany. He fail it's Art exam.

@@sorban5352 bruh he didn't fail, he got rejected because he can't draw humans (but his drawing of nature is good tho)

@@johanmikkael6903 Fail, rejected...same same And it was a joke...

damn the overkill

The resentment is strong 🤣

"Grind his bones to dust, feed the dust to the wolves, and blow up the wolves!"

@@Skadi609 Millions of people perished in his rebellion and it took 11 years to quell it. That's a big reason for the Chinese to hate your bones

That'll do pig... that'll do

So that means he had a big love hate relationship with Confucius. Maybe he simply hated Confucius. Or he might have had a distant relationship with Confucius. Who knows?

@Axiom Steel And also completely inefficient and outdated. It is like reciting the steps and procedures of making stone tools word by word in a period when everyone has a personal AI assistant.

Not really, according to Hong, Confucius is in the presence of God, he just got the bamboo cane for making his name more revered than that of God.

@fabRic_jAck Imagine the world today had china stressed technological development instead of philosophy

Lmfao

Ohhhhhh

Just shows you what constant crushed dreams and Religion can do for you.

pretty much every war in china costs 10 times more than any war on the entire planet

can someone romanticize Taiping for us?

Mostly due to famine and disease, which was partially the result of the general collapse of the whole of Southern China to not only this but various other rebellions as well as the Opium War. Besides which, both the Taiping and the Qing were extremely ruthless and bigoted, and carried out ethnic cleansing campaigns as well as scorched earth policies. It's generally compared more to the Thirty Years War, in that it was really more a highly chaotic situation where fighting and killing became one of the few ways to avoid starvation. Another comparison might be the Nazi-Soviet War since it was a total war where both sides were b*stards who just wanted to annihilate the other. Basically, Napoleon et al killed less because they weren't total maniacs but also because they actually knew what they were doing.

The name's randy random. Glad you like my story.

yes God is indeed the best

@@dnm3732 Yeah sure buddy. I suppose we can blame god for every death and genocide etc. that ever happened.

@@johkupohkuxd1697 dude I think you should calm down because you are on the internet and unless you want to start a massive argument beyond your control things are going to get ugly.

Just like 2020.

also it was one of the bloodiest wars in human history that happened the same time as the civil war

@@Wisdomcucco The "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Peace" (official name) caused nearly 20 to 30 Million dead people.

To me, it sounds like "bad fanfiction idea that gets deconstructed/has realistic consequences play out" but I guess "bad alt-history" works.

Yeah pretty much, the backstory makes you go "WTF!"

Most bullshit alt-history has a much more tame premise

I was once in a weird debate competition where all the debaters were key players of the Taiping Rebellion and I played out this headcanon. Made it so Nanjing was renamed New Jerusalem, established religious communism and imported a Dutch guy I called Jan van Leiden to try to grant the Heavenly Kingdom legitimacy. It didn’t work and France and the UK still killed everyone, but the headcanon is recorded in somewhere in a UPenn file

@@Apramos77 Bro, that was a wild comment to read

@@Apramos77 im so lost

@@Apramos77 Wow that almost sounded vaguely possible!

@@Apramos77 Headcanon you write down in a file somewhere isn't headcanon anymore, it's just a story.

Does the cult-starting look accidental to you?

he did not 'accidentally' start a cult, he was already extremely mentally ill and the Hakka felt oppressed, so he started a cult.

It is accidental

@@randomnessrules4971 getting millions of followers kinda does though haha

mad lad

In the distance... BIG MOOD!

*Paul Blart: Mall Christ*

What do you mood?

Seems to be some social media barbarism.

It’s the mood of: when you are sick of other people saying that they are gonna do what you asked them to and just do it yourself

Sounds like a great premise for a D&D character

You should do a video sometime about a Polynesian figure so you can discuss the concept of mana

@@christopherjohnson3311 Ooh, interesting idea!

Like the Culinaromancer from Runescape

@@JackRackam I'll be waiting patiently for a video on Kamehameha the Great or Queen Liliuokani

Nobody talked about this one because it was caused by religion, and it's not American. Thats already 2 huge blows to be recognized in Historical noteworthiness.

Must be the other conflicts that came up alongside this Chinese battle royale in the mid-19th Century, & I'd give you a list of examples: -At the same time around the western fringes of Qing China, they have to stop the Miao, Dzungars, and Panthayans, while skirmishing with the Russians on Outer Manchuria -The Mexican War, which fueled the flames of the US Civil War -The Mexican Civil War, alongside the French Intervention in Mexico -Third Carlist War in Spain, as Spain tries to annex the Dominican Republic in the Restoration War while fighting Rebels in the Ten Years War -2nd Schleswig & Brothers War in Germany -Chile's Pacific War against Peru & Bolivia -Brazil's Separatist rebellions -War of the Grand Alliance (the Paraguayan hugbox) by Brazil & Argentina -Tokugawa Japan's ordeal with American (& the West's) gunboats, leading to the Tokugawa freefall that was the Boshin War & the Meiji Restoration -A January Uprising in Russian Poland I really need a global demographic statistics graph between 1846-1870, so that I can conclude how many casualties the Great Powers inflicted on humanity at this time. Edit: saw some massive blanks for Brazil, besides the Triple Alliance hugbox

@@jakespacepiratee3740 yeah because if you want to talk about things like these in mainstream media or those that many people can see they just gonna cause civil war and really egoistical statements without responsibility, good thing this channel had less to none people who are like that

more like 300 times

@@shinsenshogun900 Brazil's what?

* Brother of Christ

I mean to be fair Asahara’s kill count is pitiful compared to Hong’s, the man started a war deadlier than World War 1.

wasnt there an arab fellow that did the same thing in 7th centuary?

@@ANSELAbitsxb na

@@tekmilletbirummet4808 You know, that failed businessman turned bandit with joke religion that turned prophet messiah pedo when people started taking him seriously. He claimed similar things, also plagiarized and made up things as it suited him, he went on epic trips when kicked rocks and spoke to ants while he was high. Cmon I'm sure you know who I'm talking about?

Every dynasty started as rebellion from the tyranny of the previous one... if that guy ddnot die, he could have started another dynasty...

Let's face it, if we went over every instance in Chinese history of some dude deciding to declare himself emperor and start a civil war or peasant revolt, we'd be here all day. Hell, a single one of those was enough to spawn a book that's thick enough to be divided into multiple books for publication.

@@selectivepontification8766 you mean the romance of the three kingdoms

Isn't that also the story of the Han dynasty? A military officer failing a task, realizing the punishment would be death, so he whips a peasant revolt and establish THE Han dynasty?

the recent uprising is atheism CCP leader Mao

@nonya business Historical Asians interpreting Christianity is always a good source of WTF.

this remind me of the last part of Jojo...

There's also a Korean religion where Jesus gets a Mission Failed moment which is taken up by a guy with a gun.

Casually took his place...

Yea seen a video on this im pretty sure.

Its funny at the same time because the tests were supposed to test your civil governance skills, and yet Hong demonstrated far greater skills than most civil servants despite failing the test so many times. One of the positives of the Taiping Rebels, as noted by Christian missionaries and foreign supporters, is that they had a far superior civil and military organizational capability compared to the Qing. For a man leading an army of militias and peasants, he was able to achieve what 99.999% of Qing scholars and officials couldn't even dream of doing.

Sounds like the Qing brought this upon themselves.

Good to see that education has more or less been the same now as it was over a century ago..

just the same as the college entrance exam in nowadays china……

@@Jake-dh9qk Imagine if they won? How assertive would China be?

would have been interesting to have a new kind of christianity

@@sinoroman It would of honestly just cause more issues within the system we already have: Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, Copticism, Nestorianism, Catharism, Lollardism, Aryanism, Anglicanism and Calvinism and more. We don't need another

The romans killed him with the help of the tribe.

@@LeBaron101 Arianism and Lollard are extinct though. And even if they weren't, there are already thousands of different denominations even just within the big three, that it wouldn't matter to add another one or 30.

@@sinoroman it would be Chinese Mormonism, from the same era and just as Divisive.

Same as it ever was

Hitler never claimed to be Jesus Christ's brother though

@@cheeto4027 Yeah, but claimed the Germanic Race as the holy race.

@@cheeto4027 yes, but he was a vegan

Haha. That australian guy sounds crazy, they do call it a land down under for a reason!

I heard something about that..but it'll never go anywhere I'm sure ....

What did he do?

@@cinesiosilva8793 He referenced Screen Rant's Pitch Meeting-series by Ryan George. It's a phrase Ryan uses in his videos.

I was looking in the comments for this.

References to other KZfaq creators are tight!

His abrupt mentions of their deaths is the most hilarious parts of these videos

The fact that starting a revolution is easier than passing an exam is concerning to me

@Chicken Stealer You forget that they got into uni first then they dropped out. Hitler never got into art school in the first place.

@@joellaz9836 and this guy didn’t get into “uni” either

And this is why the democrats want college to be free

What often happens is a society has a system to make rising up the social hierarchy for the average person even if they have to work harder. What often happens is over time an elite group gets imbedded at the top and maintains their position through nepotism. The tests to get in become mostly if not entirely for show and highly intelligent people who worked hard notice a pattern on who passes and who doesn't. When you combine this with an incompetent/corrupt leadership the rejects realize it is time to rebel and often get far if not succeed due to the aforementioned problem.

Well, wouldn't you get frustrated for failing an exam four times dealing with Confucian texts?

@@maseoembry4165 yes. But the exam isn't just a specific piece of the book for Confuciunism, but the entire bloody book. And slight deviation, immediate fail and before that more than 20 to 50 years to study, a friend of mine whose father is from China and he said it was the most frustrating thing his father had ever done but he managed to get it done on the third try. So he said, "never is he going to do it."

@@arturochambers27 what he doesnt mention in the video is that after remembering everything for the provincial exam u can also take part in the imperial exams if u pass. The imperial exam makes more sense since instead of remembering everything u only need to analyse and make sense of the text which u can write how down the way u interpret the text amd ur opinioms on it and it will be hand corrected by the emperor himself. granted u still need to pass the extremely difficult exam for this and its still not easy to actually succeed the imperial test

@@bingyifg yep indeed, but the Imperial test my friend's father would say was easier. I also nanaged to read the entire book by Confucius completely in one sitting. It was dense.

@@arturochambers27 i would say its easier to write but not easy to pass as in u have no idea how the emperor is gonna perceive ur interpretations

Literally I was researching 19th century Brazil a week ago and never found this, that's insane

@@JackRackam it happened two times, one was the Canudos War, the other was the Constestado War in 1910

Because of this reply I I went to research La Guerra de Canudos; but I wasn't expecting the detailed massacre that happened in what pretty much was an social class war.

​@@elg6197 yeah, our army massacred their own. They were just living by themselves, than the government being who it is stepped in and killed everyone. They say that only four people survived. In the folk tales, they said that you can still hear the screams of the agonizing people while in there, and the ruins of the place are filled with bullets.

@@alvarotolentino1589 it's almost like the Christian/pope kingdoms with "the greatest social reformer that ever lived/Jesus" as their role model.. DON'T WANT the lives of the people to improve in any way/shape/or form... how ironic.

hey got carried away by his vision...

To be far by that point the Qing were besieging Nanjing it’s not like there was hope for the rebellion at that point

China has always needed a large civil administration to keep people from starving and rebelling, hence their persistent autocracy for over 2000 years. As such the bureaucracy has generally been large and somewhat self-sufficient. It's this institutional strength that held China together for so long, but it probably wasn't robust enough to withstand ambitions from European powers in the 1800s

If anything the Civil Service Exam has been a great contribution to civilization since unlike electing your judges, magistrates, and the needed wheels of beaurucracy which is dangerous (eg. USA), you test people's capacity to serve the government.

@@boozecruiser Nah, that institution was what kept China in check from ambition of the west at the end of the Qing Dynasty and basically extended its life for so long. Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang literally carried what the dying corpse that was the Qing empire with the corpse still trying to kill them and the enemy still at the gates. The Qing imperial family and their entire aristocracy basically controlled the imperial court in the early years of the Qing because of the distrust of the ethnic Han. Opium War changed everything and basically with the Taiping rebellion, the Imperial family lost control of the south and found that their aristocratic banners that they had relied on so long, absolutely trash. Literally the Qing relied on the Imperial Civil Service Exam at the end of the dynasty. Which is why Yuan Shikai, who was an ally of Li Hongzhang was able to dissolve the dynasty at the end. Like the imperial family is the reason why many of these top notch officials couldn't modernize China. Had a more competent Dynasty replaced the Ming and allowed the Han chinese (basically the brains of the empire) to take power with in China, they wouldn't have fallen behind in the first place.

Well it was horribly corrupt it’s more so like the literacy tests they would give out to black and poor people in the south. Unless you do it completely perfectly there is no way for a poor farmhand kid to pass. even then the test can be interpreted any way and you can be failed any way. So unless you bribe someone there is practically no way for you to get into the civil service unless you have a family member already in the civil service, or your family is really rich.

@@kekero540 My understanding of the early implementation of the Civil Service Exam from the Legalists was that they didn't care about reciting poems from some dead asshole; the exams would actually ask hard policy questions concerning current or future events within the nation and ask the exam-takers to justify their answer and how to implement the policy in an essay format. This is then compared with what the current top officials are actually planning on implementing and extra points is given to students that thought about technical/political issues that the officials had not thought of. The Legalists were extremely efficient because of they disregard their own personal pride for the sake of the nation they serve; if someone from the exams had a better idea, then they simply own up to it and adopt the new idea. One of the reasons why the state of Qin survived and even dominated the Warring States Period was because Legalists took hold in that state when the ruling Qin monarch decided that the nobility should fuck off and invited the Legalist Shang Yang as the new prime minister.

Plessy v. Ferguson all the way baby!

What are you talking about

You have any credentials to back up that claim?

@@Tubeite Which claim are you referring to

Spence is awesome - thanks!

Mr. Chinese guy, write on youtube ,,Chinese letters Bible". Jesus is in the chinese ideograms. Thank me later

​@@zenodotusofathens2122 do the research and see the Bible in your ideograms from chinese ,, alphabet"

That's why history is my favorite school subject (after biology) and that's why i subscribed to this channel, this is top of the notch commedy, and even educates you

qing was a big exception, as most dynasties before them had at least some encouragement

Your right, when your entire government is built on interpreting a series of old books, there isn't much room for adaptation or improvement. It's generally not good to base any philosophical/moral system on a bunch of old books. Who would ever do such a thing?

I mean isnt it the point of the existance of a government? Most those of who incharge never like change like at all even if its for the better

The bigger issue on the whole concept of meritocracy is: Who defines the merit? Who judges the merit? Once you realize that, then you can see how every system has already been meritocratic - we just didn't agree with what they defined as merit.

If anything Civil Service Exam prevents the concept of electing an inept person on a job where a professional is needed, yes I'm ribbing the USA because they elect their judges, their sherriffs, and even good lord their coroners, one of the main reason why Civil Service is needed is that it determines which ones are more qualified and with the proper skills for the job.

I dropped my fork when I heard that 🤧🤧🤧

More than just a few distinct practices, but pretty much discriminated by local Cantonese and Hokkien speaking peoples. No one really knows where the Khek came from considering there are no written records, but what we know is that they came north and settled south. Basically just "immigrant stealing muh jobs muh land muh wife". That's why the locals would call them Hakka as an insult, when the preferred term is Khek, but currently no one really cares.

@@johannapfelburg6286 From what I read the Hakkas and Cantonese were always fighting mainly because the Hakka were always known for stirring up trouble since they didn't have access to good farms like the local Cantonese did. They were always unsatisfied with their situation and always tried to fight despite being outnumbered 10:1 in Southern China. They eventually got glorified when the 1911 Revolution and Sun Yat Sen would call back to the Taiping Hakkas as inspiration for their revolution. Then the image of Rebel-like Hakkas would become even more glorified during the communist revolution before the Sino-Japanese war when Mao's party would be composed of a majority of Hakkas. Later at the end of the Sino-Japanese war and the final civil war between the Communists and Nationalists, the Hakkas would continue to dominate the new communist party of China. Essentially, hard times create strong men and this was the exact case. The Hakkas were pushed into hardship and eventually got molded by it. One of the pride Hakkas hold onto is their sense of rebel-hood.

@@johannapfelburg6286 khek and hak are the same word pronounced in different dialects (I'm hakka, I'll call myself hakka ngin) khek is the same word pronounced in hokkien

​@@johannapfelburg6286my family is Hakka and they all call themselves Hakka

@@user-on6db4rf4s if you ignore the context of the term 家 then sure, that's what it means, "guest people". Unfortunately in this case 家 is added as a derogatory term, similar in a sense to 家伙. At least that's how it was explained to me by my Khek family.

He would be, if he had any personal combat skills 😕

you're thinking of Muhammad one of the best generals in the world

I see you are a man of culture

Damn he could be one 😂

me too

"Hong's Bizzare Adventures"

There is one, based on Japan's Shoko Asahara, the founder of Aum Shinrikyo. But I rather not you watch it because it's cultic

Europe: "Pathetic."

@@jakespacepiratee3740 wonder why dont europe adopted that tactic of basically just jumping over cities causing cassualties

Yeah i miss the old ones. I seem to remember a lot from the old ones because of the funny way everything moved (like a deer falling down the stairs) but with these new once I have a hard time remembering half of it

I like the new ones better personally! It's nice to have a more consistent videos and they're good!

I agree. Maybe he could bring out the old style occasionally for special episodes or something?

Yeah I think a quality is better than quantity so I wish he would just make less videos but they are like the old ones

Oddly religious, Demon-Slaying Sword, University Dropout, Revolutionary against a Tyrannical government, insane, etc.

A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.

I dunno about that

Little rotten egg nestled into an otherwise well done video

Yes I also saw it

I’m guessing it was from one of the Patreon donors mentioned on 0:41

screen rant pitch meetings are tight! whoopsy..

Wow wow wow...wow.

come to think of it, the top ones will always be ones that have " A V I S I O N " involved

I like how "Life" is just randomly in that list of suggestions

My day be so fine Then boom a breadtuber

@@NeoDerikik that sounds familiar, I'm pretty sure I've heard it before, but what does it mean in this context?

@@mmouse1886 Are you asking about the meme template or the term "breadtuber"? Cause the template is from that recent Clone High craze, and I used it in this context to express my disdain for BreadTube - a clique of libertarian socialist youtubers, which ContraPoints (that catgirl with a bat) is a member (and pretty much an unofficial leader) of.

@@NeoDerikik I meant more of Breadtube, and yeah I agree with you. I knew about the template, I just hadn't heard breadtube in a while and forgot the context behind it. Don't know in the video where Jack takes potshots at Contrapoints though. Seems like Jack would rather side with "her" than not.

@@mmouse1886 I never said that he takes potshots at cp(heh), he only references her at 5:38. And yeah it is unfortunately a no-brainer that he sides with her just visit his channels tab it's all right there in clear view. I won't unsubscribe based on this little disagreement, but it still is a damn shame.

Hong’s followers was never been Christians

@@abrandpluckedoutofthefire8043 Hong himself was. It was an offshoot but still Christian, like Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons.

@@jakespacepiratee3740 Hong, Joseph Smith , Muhammad and Charles Taze Russell are not Christians

@@abrandpluckedoutofthefire8043 Of course Muhammad was not Christian, he was Islamic.

@@jakespacepiratee3740 Of course Muhammad was not Christian,he was Islamic. Of course Charles was not Christian,he was JW. Of course Joseph was not Christian,he was Mormon. Of course …

There's a bunch, but they're all in Mandarin ofc.

Hahaha! No. American Civil War: Southerners - we fight to keep slavery. / Northerners - we fight to prevent states from seceding and to prevent slavery from expanding and competing with our industrial production.

@@samrevlej9331 Yeah he compared the defenders and the revolutioners for some reason. The more accurate thing to say for his comment is: america: we are trying to keep our land while still freeing slaves at the same time! Qing: we just want to stay as a country like damn

Lmao the fought to stop states leaving

@@ChristianAuditore14The primary reason why the South fought for secession was because of the anti-slavery laws. Of course, the average Southern person didn’t own slaves but people end up fighting for the interests of the rich all the time.

@@samrevlej9331no it was about stopping slavery read a book

Unfortunately this story doesn't really make sense. Chinese official regulations are that an official cannot serve in his home county, to prevent exactly this sort of corruption. But the pressure to succeed in exams is definitely super real.

@@Ealsante Yeah I don't know it it is. I saw it on an episode of Biographics. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKyhqsqTlsutnac.html Who knows maybe the local peasantry didn't know about this or more likely they just wanted to have the honor of having a local boy being an offical of the Emperor.

@@yukijames1321 forth times *WE ARM*

FITH TIMES WE HARM

SIXTH TIMES WE FREAKIN FIGHT A BIG A** DYNASTY

Considering that especially during this period you literally would not be able to pass the test unless you made buddy buddy with the grader. The answers could be interpreted any possible way and unless you bribed the grader (something that was extremely common.) you simply would not pass unless you were a literal academic demigod.

@@kekero540The Song dynasty was less corrupt and cared more about the people. You could question the emperor and not get killed. Intellectuals would not get killed. And this was in 1024. In the Qing 700-800 years later it was very corrupt. 😢

Justinian! Justinian! Justinian!

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