Oh man he added some corrections in annotations.
[sp]and they did some rapes![/sp]
[QUOTE=IrishBandit;49675214]Oh man he added some corrections in annotations.
[sp]and they did some rapes![/sp][/QUOTE]
Perfect excuse to watch it all over again
[QUOTE=RichyZ;49675313]better that he quit while he was ahead instead of simpsoning it[/QUOTE]
I seriously doubt 13 more hours of Dave Chapelle over two and a half years would have led to mass flanderization.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/dNLKC12.png[/img]
[url=https://ask.fm/billwurtz]He's active on his Q&A site[/url]
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;49671040]What makes this hilarious is that it's actually really accurate for the most part. Hyper simplified but he's right with a lot of things[/QUOTE]
going off that ww1 bit i'd like to see him do something about it
I'd love to see the history of Italy from this guy
[video=youtube;Dfyswlszyhg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfyswlszyhg[/video]
this is the most amazing thing
[QUOTE=TornadoAP;49674878]It's not America forgetting the lessons, more like America not wanting to put the resources in to make that happen because like the bag of dicks we are right now, it would cost too much.[/QUOTE]
It cost too much then as well.
There were huge political fights over the funding and reconstruction of Japan and Germany.
So, naturally, the more hits a video gets, the more stupid people it attracts.
Witness:
[quote] Aιмι “Le Seхy Prιnceѕѕ” Geη 4 hours ago
Will people not be bitter about Japan's history. Like, oh my gosh! People were raped? Like what happens in every single war?!! So surprising! So new! Totally something we should be bitter about even though 90% of us weren't there to experience it!•[/quote]
Lost my shit at Knock Knock get the door its ~~Religion~~
[QUOTE=Swilly;49676959]It cost too much then as well.
There were huge political fights over the funding and reconstruction of Japan and Germany.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but at least then some people were wiling to fight for it. The difference is now nobody wants to pay the cost.
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;49674762]
Japan's good relationship with America is very much the result of application of the lessons learned from the aftermath of WW1; reparations left Germany's economy crushed and austere (sound worryingly familiar?) and German citizens felt taken advantage of; someone played on this wounded national pride to great effect. If America had been "Good, you surrendered, now disarm the fuck up and lick your wounds," Japan would've been vengeful and likely resumed military hostilities eventually, especially as the Korean and Vietnam wars heated up the area.
[sp]The 1991 Gulf War is America FORGETTING the lessons of WW1 and just bombing the shit out of Iraq's infrastructure and leaving the people to ruined poverty after having armed Saddam in the first place. OH NO we have to invade again just over a decade later WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT[/sp][/QUOTE]
The reconstruction of Japan, Germany and the rest of Europe is nothing like anything today.
Iraq has no unifying national identity and an extremely weak/corrupt government. The radical Japanese Imperials and Nazis layed down their arms after the war ended. They had strong states and unifying national identities that had people actually caring about the wellbeing of their country.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49680819]The reconstruction of Japan, Germany and the rest of Europe is nothing like anything today.
Iraq has no unifying national identity and an extremely weak/corrupt government. The radical Japanese Imperials and Nazis layed down their arms after the war ended. They had strong states and unifying national identities that had people actually caring about the wellbeing of their country.[/QUOTE]
Pretty much. Convincing the Japanese to rebuild their own homeland didn't take a lot of effort. I doubt you could find all that many people who really give a fuck about rebuilding the state of Iraq.
Honestly, the silence after the bombs was the best way to put it. No real bias other than "that's really shitty"
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49680819]The reconstruction of Japan, Germany and the rest of Europe is nothing like anything today.
Iraq has no unifying national identity and an extremely weak/corrupt government. The radical Japanese Imperials and Nazis layed down their arms after the war ended. They had strong states and unifying national identities that had people actually caring about the wellbeing of their country.[/QUOTE]
Let not forget those nations were under a military dictatorship ran by the US military as its transitional government before a republic was installed. In Iraq, the US tried to install democracy right away.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;49680872]Honestly, the silence after the bombs was the best way to put it. No real bias other than "that's really shitty"[/QUOTE]
It's a perfect way to handle a tough part of history that can't be skipped in a brief video. The silence is so long that it gets to be a little funny, but that joke is a video-editing joke, not a bombing joke, so it diverts the attention from the sad thing and keeps people amused.
One thing that worries me is how he'll handle other history videos, especially when subject matter overlaps. Will he use the same joke to explain the background matter of WWI in a video about Italy, or the United States? Or will he have to come up with a whole different way of explaining the same thing that's equally funny?
I hope he discuses stuff like black holes and shit, not just history
he did say everything and anything goes, so
[QUOTE=BigJoeyLemons;49681531]It's a perfect way to handle a tough part of history that can't be skipped in a brief video. The silence is so long that it gets to be a little funny, but that joke is a video-editing joke, not a bombing joke, so it diverts the attention from the sad thing and keeps people amused.
One thing that worries me is how he'll handle other history videos, especially when subject matter overlaps. Will he use the same joke to explain the background matter of WWI in a video about Italy, or the United States? Or will he have to come up with a whole different way of explaining the same thing that's equally funny?[/QUOTE]
He already made a world history video
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xQTEHebpA[/media]
I think he handled it quite well
[IMG_thumb]http://i.cubeupload.com/m9v6zd.png[/IMG_thumb]
Fucking hell I was dying here.
Even the Russian state news agency is covering this lol
[url]https://www.rt.com/news/331283-history-japan-video/[/url]
[QUOTE=Turing;49683342]Even the Russian state news agency is covering this lol
[url]https://www.rt.com/news/331283-history-japan-video/[/url][/QUOTE]
What the fuck are those comments
[QUOTE=Squad1993;49661555]literally the best telling of America's arrival to Japan in 1853[/QUOTE]
I liked the 1500-1600 part, when Europeans apparently arrived to "sell some shit" like clocks, guns and Jesus :vs:
damn, based on his instagram he's been working on this video for about two months now (~7 weeks)
this guy is incredible
[QUOTE=BigJoeyLemons;49681531]
One thing that worries me is how he'll handle other history videos, especially when subject matter overlaps. Will he use the same joke to explain the background matter of WWI in a video about Italy, or the United States? Or will he have to come up with a whole different way of explaining the same thing that's equally funny?[/QUOTE]
He could instead cover other things with a richer early history and a premature ending, like the roman empire
plenty of material to work with, too
I liked the video.
I'm just surprised people are so concerned about he portrayed the atomic bombings.
[QUOTE=BrickInHead;49661670]i would love both a domestic history but more importantly a foreign policy history
imagine all the war
non stop war!
we love war!
[editline]2nd February 2016[/editline]
war war war![/QUOTE]
You should read [i]The Brothers[/i] which is about Foster and Allen Dulles, who wrote the book on random and sloppy U.S. interventions.
Knock Knock.
[I]it's the United States.[/I]
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;49685876]I liked the 1500-1600 part, when Europeans apparently arrived to "sell some shit" like clocks, guns and Jesus :vs:[/QUOTE]
That's pretty much what happened. The Dutch and Portuguese were pushing the Otomo clan pretty hard IIRC because they wanted a Christian shogun so that they could use Japanese ports to trade with China.
It didn't work.
[QUOTE=TraxInfo;49688056]Knock Knock.
[I]it's the United States.[/I][/QUOTE]
I figured out why I found it to be one of the funniest parts of the video.
It's that usually he's being really concise and to-the-point but then he says [I]"open the country. stop having it be closed"[/I] and the redundancy really makes it funny.
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