History of China in a Nutshell

[@BlueJayYT]

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[@ChillingRat]

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[@jzzisk]

Not so fun fact, China wiped out most of their sparrows during the great famine, believing that Sparrows were destroying farmers crops. In reality the sparrows were eating all pests who were destroying those same crops. The almost total extinction of the sparrows lead to a rise in pests and a lack of crops being grown causing the famine to grow larger.

[@hailarwotanaz5848]

Then they made sure to export their food during a famine

[@jonathanallard2128]

Makes 100% sense perfectly.

[@michaelf.2449]

Sounds like normal CCP policies just like how that one child policy has caused amazing conditions for the population

[@ThillerKillerX]

Commies always starve at some point

[@ignacio4159]

@@hailarwotanaz5848 yeah the URSS did the same. Millions of their people died of hunger but they exported what little food they had to the rest of the world to promote communism making people outside believe the urss was a paradise

[@yankee3875]

“Who will be shown with a halo so I do t get wall banged by a CCP hit squad” you have no right to be this funny

[@DuckFish4522]

I loved that totally normal day where nothing unusual happened!

[@BlueJayYT]

What a beautiful June day!

[@haruhifujioka5952]

What about the tan-BOOM!

[@Jacob87439]

Yeah when like nothing happened that was sick

[@lynth]

​@@BlueJayYT Hi, do you unironically believe anyone in China claims that "nothing unusual happened" or that it's somehow a taboo subject? Please actually put effort into researching China, then. In general, your ideas about China seem to be based on literal anti-communist propaganda from the West and not, you know, actual facts and knowledge as established by historians and other academics. If you get your ideas about China from American/capitalist sources, you might not get very far. Although, hey, I'm sure you get your ideas about other countries' history from their enemies known to lie about them, too. After all, no better way to study Jewish history than by listening to Third Reich scholars!

[@ghilliemcwilly2162]

@@lynth found the CCP Assassin that's guarding BlueJay's wall with a 50 cal

[@JunkyardDigs]

Dude I don't even want to know how long that beginning took to edit😂😂

[@BlueJayYT]

Believe it or not, this video probably took me the least amount of time out of all of them hahaha but they take a longgg time

[@JR-vt7rb]

@@BlueJayYT thanks for the passion 😂😂 really helping me out with my existencial crisis 😀

[@concept5631]

@@BlueJayYT How long did it take to make the intro if I may ask?

[@theironighters226]

@@BlueJayYT 3:22 devel horns

[@RainerTheGamer]

@@BlueJayYT by the least amount of time you still mean you spent around 16 hours or more editing right

[@bkr1895]

Mao promising Chinese peasants they’ll never go hungry would be like me calling myself in high school “Mr. Sex All The Time” both are equally untrue.

[@Stoicsaiyan]

That’s a lie. I just know you pull hella bitches

[@thetieguy4961]

hey can i call you Mr. That probably didn't change much ?

[@zhaocamille7177]

how?

[@张宇-p7t]

My parents and grandparents were farmers who built houses and had savings. My younger sister is studying mechanical engineering at university, and I was funded by the Chinese government to complete my PhD in Europe. We live happily and full of hope. It's really ridiculous that you westerners don't understand us, but pretend to be gods and comment on us.

[@guoxiutang7569]

Actually most peasants still thanks him. Not for CCP they would be peasants without land. For the poor, CCP saved them by eliminating landlords. Landlords are not all shot. My grandpa helped to hide his lord because “he is a good guy”. But “great leap forward “ and “culture revolution “was devastating and did kill a lot of people( not that much. Look up statistics of population)

[@brennanvilcheck9469]

The fact that a blue Jay made this video and narrated it, after knowing China went to war with birds and lost, makes this video ten times funnier.

[@hoyabembe8858]

Elaborate

[@brennanvilcheck9469]

@@hoyabembe8858 China was facing a issue with birds eating crops. They decided to launch a massive campaign against birds to exterminate them. They did so, but then the insects got out of control, leading to greater crop damage/famine. So, while they killed a large amount of birds, the birds really won the war

[@matthewexline6589]

@@brennanvilcheck9469 Bro that's like saying Terrans destroy Protoss, but then Zerg destroy Terrans and win... but Protoss won???

[@angelarch5352]

Both lost... the insects won.

[@scheewheed8285]

@@angelarch5352 Thats literally the Chinese Civil War with ROC duking it out with Japan and the CCP finishing the ROC when the Japanese were done

[@FriendlierFetus]

Reading Chinese history be like: "Xi Jaizu peasant rebellion of 1134 resulted in 570 million deaths"

[@shirleyxia9988]

You know the Chinese population during Qing was around 300 million right?

[@FriendlierFetus]

@@shirleyxia9988 You know this is a joke and an exaggerating, right?

[@sirapple589]

carl hartford Just looked it up, it’s been 70 years since the last civil war. Question is, in today’s China is it possible to actually organize and fight against the CCP?

[@explosivelimejuice6111]

@carl hartford Just because an economy’s gonna crash doesn’t mean a new warlord era would come from it.

[@explosivelimejuice6111]

@carl hartford I can believe that there are people who want power. What I can’t believe though is China imploding when they’ve been quite stable. They have good business, they pioneer in a lot of technologies. While an economy may take a dive, that economy can always be brought back up. So no I can’t believe that the People’s Republic of China is gonna collapse in our time.

[@tank7275]

During the cultural revolution a friend of my mothers lived next to a monk who was vegetarian And when those students who burned books came, they force fed the monk meat Which was ironic as most people could only eat meat like once a week at that time

[@tritium1998]

Cool story, Nayirah. But the Chinese gained the most people during that time instead of obeying you losers.

[@tank7275]

@@tritium1998 what the fuck are you talking about

[@feister2869]

Holy fucking shit. How has the west integrated china’s fucking bullshit in their economy and lives?

[@allentillmann8513]

Somehow, i can't see the answers

[@angelarch5352]

The next time the CCP red guard comes along, I will tell them my religion stops me from eating cheeseburgers-- "oh no, please don't force me to eat cheeseburgers!... nom nom nom" "I'm not allowed to eat fries either!..."

[@christophervanoster]

If I had a nickel for every country that waged a war on birds and lost, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t weird except that it happened twice

[@Ourelleetsy]

Which isnt a lot but its weird that it happened twice

[@empereurnico6048]

What the fuck was the second

[@guitarfan01]

@@empereurnico6048 Australia. They lost to emus.

[@TheRatattat]

​@@Ourelleetsy fr

[@empereurnico6048]

@@guitarfan01 ohhhhhh I remember

[@artugert]

Ah man, I thought this was going to go through the entire 5,000 years of Chinese history, not just the last 112 years.

[@birdyhans2452]

He did, just really fast

[@RADICALFLOAT_95]

​@@birdyhans2452I actually genuinely agree with you

[@nsahandler]

Sun Yat Sen's life story is actually fascinating because his contribution was literally touring the US getting money via book signings and fundraising efforts to buy large stores of weapons to send to China. It took three(?) attempts and he survived multiple assassinations and even his kidnapping and torture in a Qing Embassy by managing to get the maid to slip out a letter.

[@leiladekwatro3147]

Ten attempts or so im told.

[@nenmaster5218]

@@leiladekwatro3147 But with less Birds though.

[@qaq8409]

Sun Yat Sen only succeeded in overthrowing the Qing dynasty after ten attempts, which means he staged eleven revolutions. I’m from Hong Kong and people respect him very much here (at least every one I know respects him). We call him 國父 which directly translates to “father of (our) nation”. My dad also used to tell me how his brother used to draw on all historically famous people in the textbooks, but he would never lay hands on Sun Yat Sen.

[@Glumbus1]

@@qaq8409 from what i know every chinese person likes Sun Yat Sen the only reason you wouldnt is if you are a monarchist but i doubt there are any monarchists in china

[@SunYat-sen]

Sun was the greatest Chinese revolutionary to ever live

[@Mr.McMuffin]

This channel is heavily underrated. It’s criminal

[@MrBasketville]

Here one year later, still criminally underrated

[@PaulRudd1941]

@carl hartford yup same.

[@KentBuchla]

Nice double cliché, ya bag o’ hot air.

[@curtiskretzer8898]

Criminal,like🇨🇳

[@lynth]

Filled with sinophobic and anti-socialist disinformation like 99% of every other channel from a white, male content creator from a Western imperialist nation.

[@danielortman2534]

How to win a civil war: have your enemy spend years waging a war against a technologically superior enemy while you hide in the mountains.

[@filiperosa7496]

Wtf, the communist literally are massacred to the mountains

[@danielortman2534]

@@filiperosa7496 The communists barely fought the Japanese at all. Mao actually thanked them for weakening the nationalists because he couldn't have won the civil war otherwise.

[@filiperosa7496]

@@danielortman2534 yeah, but they not fought because the nationalist try to exterminate every communist supports, everyway, I don't support mao neither the nationalists in china, because I'm Brazilian, lol, but it is not only because of the Japanese that the communist won

[@danielortman2534]

@@filiperosa7496 according to Mao, it wouldn’t have worked without them.

[@chefboyardee2223]

@@danielortman2534 so we just gonna take mao at his word then? The same man who thought birds were gonna eat all their food?

[@JumpCutThis]

I don’t care what anyone says, your OG stuff is as good as the new- sure the graphics may be a bit more polished but the humor is what keeps me coming back. This one and the Olympics ep are modern masterpieces.

[@matthews.mahoney3743]

It's like Sam o'nella and oversimplified had a baby and we got Bluejay. Keep it up

[@prw56]

I don't think there's any oversimplified in there, its just a different flavor of sam o'nella's style.

[@wueevee3249]

God,I love Sam o’nella and oversimplified

[@RADICALFLOAT_95]

​@@wueevee3249I actually genuinely agree with you

[@malkomal9517]

bruh that part on 0:23 is literally how i make a thesis of chinese history, skip all the dynasty and go straight to qing

[@francescoboselli6033]

That's how also we study Chinese history in Italian school. And also some XIV century China reference if you study "Il milione" of Marco Polo

[@valentinmitterbauer4196]

In austria the historical corriculum is: 25% pre- industrial europe shenanigans, 5% colonial atrocities of spain, britain and germany, 3% history of USA and Russia, 5% WW I and communist revolutions, 2% austro- fascism, 50% nazis, nazi atrocites, Hitler, resistance against the nazis and WW II, 5% post- war austria and 5% history of the european union.

[@francescoboselli6033]

@@valentinmitterbauer4196 what about Imperial Japan and it's atrocities?

[@valentinmitterbauer4196]

@@francescoboselli6033 Mh, i think indo- pacific WWII is one double page in the official school books, (for comparison, the topic "Austrian resistance" also has a whole double page) everything what happened from Pearl Harbour up to the nukes, but it doesn't really convey that the japanese were as bad as the germans. I, personally, was shocked when i learned (outside of school) that the japanese feel no remorse towards china and korea. Germans and austrians have so much to learn about their own inhuman atrocities that there is hardly space for what others did. For example, the atrocities the russians did to east austria from '45 to '55 or the expulsion of the Sudeten people we learn from our grandparents rather than from school.

[@tiki11111]

Only real men watch avatar

[@robertraine6045]

even toph sees this to be true

[@RockSmithStudio]

ATLA is awesome

[@reisen1932]

So, which part of China is the Fire nation?

[@dianapennepacker6854]

I remember being so sad when it ended. I'm Male using someone's phone. Then I saw the movie. 😥 Only Attack on Titan has gained my attention, and I am 34. Yet enjoying Avatar with my nephew was fun times.⁰

[@reisen1932]

@@timlilijinsheng4070 Japan is not part of China though. Or do China already claim whole Asia already, did I overslept?

[@HipHopRepair]

Why is there no „that’s what Xi said“ joke???? 6/10 stars…

[@sirius4k]

There was. Pay attention or get your organs shared with the Free Democratic Dictatorshippy People of KZbin!

[@HipHopRepair]

@@sirius4k ok my bad. I will still complain about it when they come to harvest my organs

[@kagenekoUA]

Somewhere around 9:20, just in case

[@TumblinWeeds]

Wow, this is probably the most accurate representation of modern Chinese history I’ve heard an English speaker tell. I love that you captured a lot of the thoughts and feelings of the Chinese civilians over the decades. That’s one thing I often see western media get wrong.

[@feister2869]

Can’t say shit when you’re getting payed millions

[@vyros.3234]

I watched an NPR doc on China and its the same and more in depth than this video. So what exactly is western media getting wrong.

[@edisonlima4647]

@@vyros.3234 Usually, it portrays the average civilian as rolling with all gleefully.

[@Maelstromme]

@@edisonlima4647 I think that’s also what the Chinese government wants to portray. You know, will of the people = will of the leadership.

[@DragonbornOfTamriel]

@@vyros.3234 I don’t know man how about Disney praising the guards who run the concentration camps? John cena apologizing to China in mandarin for saying Taiwan is it’s own country. Government officials in the US getting caught in honeypots from China, Chinese professors saying they’ve infiltrated America at every level, Hollywood bending over backwards for those sweet sweet xuan so they lie about China to Americans all the time in chinas portrayal? Dude the list is so long I doubt I have enough characters to example EVERYTHING

[@connormcmurphy4276]

2:50-2:59 is just so well voice acted. The “phewww” followed by the confused “yeaaahhh-wait what?” Perfection.

[@CHINARIZING]

Hey, I really liked this video! Nicely summarized and simplified with some really good humor. Awesome editing too.

[@BlueJayYT]

Thank you!

[@owendiaram3870]

Wow, all of china liked your video. That's got to be at least ten people, probably more

[@rose_blue1]

​@@owendiaram3870 ?

[@bliss_sequence5918]

I like these, will you do more?

[@BlueJayYT]

I liked doing it! I will, especially if this video does well! Got a suggestion for the next topic?

[@thatonenoob4951]

@@BlueJayYT history of comunism

[@BlueJayYT]

@@thatonenoob4951 That's a good idea!

[@Limboniolo]

History of post colonial shipping routes in modern Northern Africa

[@capitalrumble6620]

@@BlueJayYT please

[@charlie15627]

I’m surprised that you didn’t mention how the CCP spent virtually the entire WW2 avoiding combat. They just kept collecting weapons from the USSR and training their troops. That’s why they were able to basically walk right over the Chinese Nationalists as soon as WW2 was over. While the Nationalists were fight, they were watching, training and planning.

[@stephenhawkingsbeautywheel9080]

aaannd after the fighting was over they told everybody them alone (the ccp) fought against the japanese.

[@seanhartnett79]

Pretty much and they allowed the country to get massacred by the Japanese

[@温水-i5z]

To be honest, you can't say such a thing if you know anything about history.

[@温水-i5z]

The content of this video is basically true, but selectively ignored too much

[@zlcoolboy]

@@温水-i5z You kinda have to ignore a lot to have a reasonably sized video when it comes to a country's history (especially one as long as china's history).

[@DG-mk2nr]

Ngl the dynasty histories that got skipped were lit af. Romance of the three kingdom period for example

[@blackcat_wing4115]

I'm Chinese. Looking back to our history,our nation really have been through so much. I believe this is how the nation develope. There were always good leaders starting new eras for the nation. And suckers destroying everything just for their good. Histories taught us a lot and guide us to build our country. Hope for a better future for China and the whole world!

[@starkiller0219]

Exactly dog, don’t let our governments trick you or me into hating eachother. We are all humans and all have been through shit

[@blackcat_wing4115]

@@starkiller0219 ❤Peace and Harmony!!!❤

[@tesmith47]

Yeah, China be careful not to act like western capitalist, rape other continents thinking YOUR RACE is better

[@blackcat_wing4115]

@Mysterious one 啊对对对对

[@周期]

@@starkiller0219 good man great country Return the cultural relics looted from various countries in your museum

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Nicely done... "Hey, let's execute all those pesky Doctors, Teachers, Scientists and Engineers ! Basically anyone who wears glasses. " You forgot to mention the war against sparrows...

[@panzerjaeger016]

Perfect opportunity for the Blue Jay to take his part in fighting his ancestral war!

[@sahkogile]

Thats Pol Pot

[@edwardfletcher7790]

@@sahkogile Who do you think Pol pot got the idea from ? World History is all online, study it.

[@sahkogile]

@@edwardfletcher7790 so?

[@highseervehk]

@@edwardfletcher7790 this didn't even actually happen, the amount of propaganda that western buffoons believe on any (ex-)marxist country is insane

[@jaewok5G]

as a blue jay, I'm stunned you didn't mention your avian brothers, the sparrows

[@MK_ULTRA420]

Corvidae and Passeridae don't get along...

[@jaewok5G]

@@MK_ULTRA420 I'm just glad that maybe someone got the reference!

[@MK_ULTRA420]

@@jaewok5G I know about the sparrow purge but as my own personal headcanon I like to think Blue Jay is lowkey okay with it.

[@jaewok5G]

@@MK_ULTRA420 they can be jerks

[@sirv8708]

During the cultural revolution, my grandparents who were both university researchers were sent with all their directly related family members to a production camp. At lunch time, they had to bow on a high stage, along other academic researchers, to a room of factory workers (people who never received education) while those people eat first. The people bowing on stage could only go eat after the workers finished. My mom who was a young child at the time, would have to witness that everyday for years while she waited for her parents to come down the stairs to eat. I can’t post this story on any Chinese platforms as it would get taken down right away. It’s just sad how they try to bury the disgusting things they’ve done and forcefully shuts anyone trying to speak about it.

[@chatter4427]

Imagine having to eat after the workers smh soo traumatizing

[@sirv8708]

@@chatter4427 I think you missed the part where they had to bow to them the entire time they ate. Like, a 90° bow, on a high stage, being watched by a room full of people, days after days for ages.

[@chatter4427]

@@sirv8708 they got abs from those years?

[@sirv8708]

@@chatter4427 are you okay?

[@chatter4427]

@@sirv8708 just saying, 90 degree for hours everyday must be some intense ab workout

[@Altolion]

I’m so perplexed you haven’t reached a million subs yet, you content is superb in every single way, keep it up ! I’ll never stop watching :)

[@suthiraksb]

You forgot the best part of the great leap forward. Mao ordered to hunted all pigeons because he though they eat farmers' rice. But the fact is pigeons don't eat only rice, they eat other insect like locust too. The loss of rice from pigeons is too small compare to other problem like locust, but Mao was soldier not scientist or farmer. Then, people started hunting pigeons untill they're almost extinct. After there weren't hunter, "it's free real estate"locust. Combine to stupid order that force farmers made forges and melt their tool to make low quality ingot. The famine spreaded. To solve this happen, they had to import pigeons to fight locust. And many low quality factories cause air polution problems till today(Some factories still operate since Mao reign, CCP tried to change those old power plants but it's too hard).

[@chamorvenigo]

You also forgot the part where the "famine" (food-shortage) happened during three years of the PRC 2nd five-year economic plan. The first five-year economic plan was so successful at increasing food production, PRC was overconfident in the second one. However, since then, there was no major screw-up like that. They learn to build really impressive infrastructures to deal with floods and droughts. Not to mention there was a worldwide trade embargo on PRC, so that means restricted access to loans, food import, fertilizers, and farming equipment since the Korean War. That trade embargo lasted until 1972 after Nixon visited China.

[@b_3nji876]

4:19 the biggest troll moment in human history

[@thesoliloquist1940]

I like the waiting room music at the end.. all channels sort of do something with their audience and i like by the end of the video its like we're all in a waiting room as if your videos were playing in the background from a corner somewhere and we were all passively listening to it..

[@IfIgetsubsIllGobacktomyfamily]

Great video. If you do stuff like this more often you could be a big history channel

[@BlueJayYT]

I shall make more!

[@餅-f3l]

Very nice Falun properganda 10/10.

[@mrbushi1062]

Last air bender is so much more then a kids show

[@Thorn_krieg]

I know for a fact you only laughed in that chaotic moment to make it more chaotic

[@BlueJayYT]

Actually not quite! While there are some easter eggs in that mesh of audio clips that I’ll let you all decipher, the majority of it were audio clips of me reading interesting tid bits of ancient Chinese history. For the laughing moment, that came after I talked about the story of two peaches and three warriors from the province of Qi. Me saying “the killing of three warriors with two peaches” sounded so ridiculous that I laughed

[@jblico]

chinese history in a nutshell : estimated 10-90 million dead

[@stephenhawkingsbeautywheel9080]

and not being blamed for it pretty much coz communism= gud

[@cheshirecynic4524]

@@stephenhawkingsbeautywheel9080 Communism is good, on its own. It's that Authoritarian part that people try to add which ruins everything for everybody. The reason that communism and socialism have repeatedly failed miserably throughout history is that every time they've been implemented, it's been done under the premise of getting the populace to accept a dictatorship. Remove the position of power at the top (no singular "leader" or insular group acting as a combined dictator), and the concepts of equity and equality come into much better focus.

[@POTUSJimmyCarter]

I feel like being part of Chinese history is one of the leading causes of death throughout history

[@yaboichangkaishek3460]

Then China be like “ just a Casual Friday”

[@tritium1998]

It was successful enough to gain more people and last longer (other ancient nations died completely).

[@atsekaleb7]

Were you inspired by Sam O'Nella in the editing and narration style?

[@BlueJayYT]

I love his videos! Yes, he is an inspiration, but I have made videos in this style on a different channel 4 years ago before I ever heard of Sam O'Nella!

[@LegoGamer-g7f]

@@BlueJayYT I feel as if you are better than him since I can’t find any bias in your videos.

[@abloodcorpse3318]

@@BlueJayYT it's nice to see

[@KenikoB]

@@LegoGamer-g7f Having or not having bias does not make one youtuber better than another. Everything contains some amount of bias, and often that's a good thing - if you're trying to be neutral you can end up downplaying and legitimizing awful people and situations.

[@RADICALFLOAT_95]

​@@KenikoBI actually genuinely agree with you

[@sapereaude6274]

Thought that bird was a Swallow educating Mao at first.

[@epicfail9271]

"Yeah I'm watching a kids show" Mr bird, you mispronounced *great* show

[@outofsync6269]

I am loving these videos. No idea how KZbin recommended them and surprised they haven't taken this one in particular down for criticizing CCP but glad that I came across them. Keep them coming.

[@mnm1273]

Ah yes KZbin famously close to the CCP.

[@mnm1273]

With not to

[@tritium1998]

KZbin recommends you losers more though, but you're crying because you don't own everyone despite it.

[@nighthawk244]

@@mnm1273 yes KZbin routinely censors anti CCP channels

[@angsern8455]

KZbin is not really happy about the CPC

[@Nicentoastytoast]

Hey, love your channel. Question: If I were to slow this video down and isolate each of the words detailing the older history of china, would it actually tell isolated stories, or just be complete nonsense? Thanks.

[@BlueJayYT]

It's a mix! I recorded dozens of sentences, most of which was actually historical, some of which was silly easter egg type stuff.

[@rexx2338]

@Fishy Business I guess you’ll never know :)

[@heterodontosaurustucki]

@@rexx2338har har har

[@rexx2338]

@@heterodontosaurustucki no

[@c.o.y9418]

Daddy Mao really is a true gamer, even tho he got a nuke 3.900.000 times, he more prefer gunfight

[@BusinessTravelVlogs]

Fun fact: Chiang Kai shek took (stole some may say) most of china's treasure (art, jewels etc) with him to Taiwan where you can look at it in a museum. Very worth a visit

[@litiumminer2850]

I mean considering what the red guard student groups did I think it was for the best

[@Jikuri]

Most likely "save" those bastards will burn those 🤣 because it was tied to old China

[@埊]

if he did to oppose the red guards who destroy lishi and tradition, then thankfull.

[@auulauul9328]

"Xi Jinping probably smells like a capri sun" is a take I was not prepared for but agree with now.

[@christophervanoster]

“I’m showing mao with a halo so as not to be quickscoped by the ccp” Not even 2 minutes later “famines of China”

[@Cartoonicus]

Man, this guy doesn’t hold back. I wonder how long this will stay up on KZbin.

[@reisen1932]

The Soviet Stickman squatting... History has never been so accurate!

[@ryanjackson5463]

"Probably smells like a Capri Sun..." You just earned a sub!

[@007kingifrit]

and he lost me as a sub for the same line. I'm a Hi C man myself.

[@jessicalypso8839]

5:29 scared the shit outta me!

[@knurlgnar24]

According to wikipedia the 'great leap forward' was a resounding success despite the lack of participation by those who starved to death. Ah, wikipedia. RIP.

[@stevenschnepp576]

The left has truly lost the plot.

[@yourdad6902]

That is just an outright lie they literally tell you it was a disaster so why are you lying

[@yourdad6902]

​@@stevenschnepp576 you can go on Wikipedia and prove yourself wrong

[@m4_patriot374]

Breaking news, Bluejay shot 14 times in the back off the head with a suicide note written in Simplified Chinese

[@noahs07208]

2:35 most definitely

[@kinman3051]

0:32 I could make out "basically like an alchohol"

[@bluedshadow27]

BlueJay: *yeah this is big brain time*

[@danieldeering860]

I have your pfp on like 200 posters covering my whole room

[@AlinJ.]

I have replayed 6:08 an unhealthy amount of times. BlueJay is a mad genius.

[@pacoramon9468]

War Lord era reminds me a lot of the last season of Legend of Korra.

[@benselchow7549]

Blue Jays videos make me miss Sam O Nella

[@KenikoB]

the stuff around 5:30 is incorrect I'm pretty sure... the plan was to make farming produce enough that some farmers could be sent to work on industrialization instead. Mau was lied to by officials in the first years of the plan, who told him they had lots of crops because they wanted to look good, so he diverted even more farmers to industrialization because by the information he was going off of they had plenty of extra food. And the backyard furnaces weren't part of the plan - the people just started doing that on their own and melting down their steel tools because they supported the movement so much, even though the steel it produced was crap that was unusable and they were told to stop.

[@briandozier9113]

I'ma still be rewatching ATLA even when I'm in my 70's guaranteed

[@muhammadabdullahwaseem3040]

chinese history in a nutshell: some guy seizes power. millions die

[@okyanus1226]

I am disappointed that Deng Xiaoping wasn't called DANK

[@DioTheGreatOne]

>Chao Ling takes power. >247 million perish.

[@RennanDeMatos]

I must say, this blue bird knows NOTHING about Mao Tsung

[@callsignpanzer7209]

This is like history over simplified but he actually posts and I love it

[@Wombo55]

Thank you Mordecai from the regular show for teaching us about china.

[@curiouswind9196]

a great man once said ''China is whole agan, then it broke again''

[@Minboelf]

7:28 Singapore: Don't spread communism China: Ok

[@allesklar8636]

4:10 Valid point. Some might say that the communists were able to make a comeback since the nationalist troops, who were pretty much the only Chinese forces (the commies laid back) to fight the Japanese. So in the end, casualties and overall fatigue allowed the communists to easily get ahold of the country. The end.

[@hooderik8699]

This is a logical but misleading concept ppl believe but the communist still had a huge disadvantage against nationalist troops in 1945, however the nationalist government acting like the dickheads they are had a very large forced convict army with no moral that could win against the communists, the KMT's lack of trust and internal fighting is what devastated them. During 1931 to 1945 the nationalist held large campaigns are they should being the ruling party of china and controlled most resources. The communist had very active roles behind enemy lines in western and northern china. The communist were great at their guerrilla tactics and were able to secure all country side except for the Japanese captured railway junctions and cities. in 1943 the communist launched a major counter offensive in enemy captured land. Simply put the communist were a smaller very unified group of mental elites that lacked physical equipment but managed to improve themselves through their tactics. The KMT was a huge hot mess with no self trust and care within their armies, the only output they had in terms of fighting was the few well trained troops with the determine nation to fight the japs.

[@94ruben94]

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[@hooderik8699]

@@doppelkupplungsgetriebe try not to bring so much politics into a historical fact

[@stg-tf4ns]

@@hooderik8699 the KMT caused like 3 hyperinflations in its not so long reign alongside other corruption and stuff, plus committing mass violation of human rights itself breakinging the alliance with the communist (which btw many of the OG kmt members dislike because having the communists alongside was a principle laid down by Sun himself), so it's makes perfect sense that the people viewed the communist party as a simply better alternative at the time

[@Zones33]

The success of pushing a UN led coalition away from their border to the 38th parallel in the Korean War negate that point

[@marvelgeek9577]

3:08 Is that a Looney Toons reference?

[@theleanmonster3735]

“Survived throughout history” even through it died like 15 times

[@tritium1998]

Implying your regimes didn't die despite your shorter histories. The Roman Empire is propagandized as a continuous regime despite its different dynasties, and it died completely.

[@neshirst-ashuach1881]

No, claiming China has a continous history is really more like modern Italians claiming they have a continous regime from Rome. Its just nonsense.

[@michyoung77]

The dynasties did collapse, however, the culture, its political formation, and its cultural identity never really did; at least not in the way Egypt, Rome, Babylon, or any other civilization for that matter has.

[@GIN.356.A]

If it comes back, did it really die?

[@skyfallin9387]

Great video man! This is the type of history video I like to see. It reports facts as it is and put your own style of humour in the video to make it interesting. I just wish that there is more diverse topic than bashing the CPC. In a weird way, it’s really fun to read the comments. Seeing a few distinct group of people just talking out their opinion.

[@garyg3468]

just binged the whole channel, these vids are dripping with dark humor and I love it! thanks for the laughs!

[@thevillager8339]

I was wondering why the video was so short, but then I saw the first bit and was like oooooh

[@theshadows1416]

0:44 can we all question *why are the gaming videos none existant?*

[@2cozy.]

Lol at 4:43 there was an ad for a robot shooty game and all I heard was miniguns

[@angusmatheson8906]

Mao is based for executing landlords.

[@thomaslittle5336]

*stamps "commie" on your forehead*

[@angusmatheson8906]

@thomaslittle5336 Keel yore salve, you simp for billionaires: parasite class.

[@montgolifers]

Need an update video about how its living in china, temu and tiktok and how the corona situation was. There is alot of more crazy stuff in china you could talk about :) love your videos!

[@TrayVestTea]

Ya scary stuff

[@willl237]

@@TrayVestTea whats scary

[@TrayVestTea]

@@willl237 Oh, the coronavirus stuff, how like the local government in shanghai started forcing themselves into homes and killing people’s pets because for a while it was believed that pets could spread coronavirus to humans, they can’t, we know that now. And how the local government there also managed the crisis terribly and food shortages caused many people to starve in their own homes as they weren’t being delegated properly and people weren’t allowed to leave

[@Worldsportstalk24]

As soon as the guy voting turned with a surprised face to the left, I got an ad with girls twerking. It was perfect.

[@Oozern]

Am I a big brain gamer yet?

[@BlueJayYT]

biggest brain!

[@jtr7377]

Just want to point out real quick that Sun Yat-sen did not have very different, opposing views to the Socialists/Communists, especially since he and Vladimir Lenin got along well. It is one reason why he still has what is essentially a "founding father" status in both China and Taiwan, he was essentially the main guy that held together the party coalition. Kind of like Tito and Yugoslavia.

[@studywithyan697]

I like your video, agrees with almost everything, there is just one thing I really want to point out, Falungong isn't just a harmless yoga group. I know that's how they have presented them selves outside of China, but they are a cult, a cult fitting all of major sterotypes about Cults. They believe that their leader is the creater of the universe or something like that and won't allow their members to go to hospital for medical issues. they sell high priced 'medicine' to members that is sick and the leader manipulates young female members into having sex with him. I agree that the Chinese government is awful, but not allowing Falungong to roam free in China is one of the frew things I agree with. How do I know all this? because my Grandma is a long time follower of Falungong and I was taught about Falungong from her at a young age, I forgot all of the quotes from the Holy book but what I said above is coming from what I remember.

[@wes00chin]

Yeah as soon as i saw that part i kinda felt that this video sort of looses it credibility.

[@edisonlima4647]

So they are basically a mix between Jehovah Witnesses and old school Mormons. Got it.

[@studywithyan697]

@@edisonlima4647 yes but more similar to Jehovah witness than to Mormons.

[@rs-dp6pr]

They area cult.. yeah no kidding..

[@gryphonbotha1880]

This comment section is confusing. The Jehovah's Witnesses I know are much more likely to go to hospital when ill than a few more mainstream churches I know. They also take the sanctity of marriage and the nature of intimacy very seriously. If a leader tried to manipulate a girl into sex, there'd be an outcry among the whole congregation, and the leader would almost certainly be disfellowshipped. Certainly, he wouldn't be allowed to lead anymore. The police may even be called in. I'm not a JW myself, but comparing them to an actual, human-centered cult isn't accurate.

[@alwaysalittlered6434]

When I saw the tile my mind immediately connected small bird with China, to the great famine.

[@totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi7547]

Love this! And thanks, I am cute. Your pronunciation is funny but very lovable. Nice video (: make more

[@icreatedanaccountforthis1852]

"The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States." - that's what Xi said

[@seanhartnett79]

Not really. constantly angering your neighbors, is a great way to collapse

[@tritium1998]

@@seanhartnett79 You anger more than just your neighbors, but it's not like you imps own all your neighbors and overseas obeying you like you wish anyway.

[@seanhartnett79]

@@tritium1998 China has managed to piss off literally everyone, the west isn’t happy.

[@BrianMa-m8m]

0:33 my brain starts to melt but i dont need to because i AM CHINESE

[@DontCallMeEdith]

Okay, this is pretty cool and informative. Keep it up dude

[@negative6442]

Bro you really just skipped over the entire Warlord Era? That's like the funniest part of modern Chinese history!

[@521techguy]

Watched all your videos in reverse order from release, lol. MOAR VIDEOS PLZ

[@justbored1730]

4:37 same in Romania.

[@righthanded4009]

6:48 I love that Bill Clinton picture so much lmao!!!

[@jfmccrosson]

Not nearly enough Winnie the Pooh references here, still a great video tho.

[@justsomedude4469]

Damn Mordecai got real educated after he left the park

[@wheelman1324]

The Communists hardly fought against the Japanese. It was almost all Nationalist China.

[@justanormalguyhere2408]

Yep that’s true

[@Collipso]

great video, you deserve way more

[@BlueJayYT]

Cheese?

[@Collipso]

@@BlueJayYT ɥɐəʎ

[@Cherno35]

Its cool to see someone who uses Sam O’Nellas style without straight up copying him.

[@valkymer24]

Best history teacher ever 🤤

[@1990sPrintr]

10:24 This video holds the record to be about China and go the longest without making a Winnie the Pooh joke.

[@shikobavaria]

Excerpt from textbook: Small Chinese disagreement ends in 676 million deaths.