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    Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 14

    The Taiping Rebellion was the second bloodiest war in modern history. Killed 20 million people. Started by a guy who was mad about failing his civil service exams. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion …

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      1. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 14

        And of course we all know that the bloodiest war in modern history was started by a guy who failed to get into art school...https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/7511134/Hitler-sketches-that-failed-to-secure-his-place-at-art-academy-to-be-auctioned.html …

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      2. Zach Martin‏ @zamartin Oct 14
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        It’s a testament to how undertaught Asian history is at American schools that I — a history major at a selective college and person who reads things — was today years old when I heard of this war.

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      3. Zach Martin‏ @zamartin Oct 14
        Replying to @zamartin @Noahpinion

        Or a testament to my own myopia but I’m blaming society

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      2. A Singh‏ @gl_citizen Oct 14
        Replying to @Noahpinion

        And if Hon Rengang had pulled off a Heavenly Kingdom win, China - or at least southern China - would be a largely Christian nation Would make an interesting alt history Netflix series

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      3. Jamez Harriz‏ @JaZarris Oct 14
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        This is presuming so much (spread of + beyond court, etc.) even beyond defining what “Christianity” would look like. All my money for a Netflix treatment of the rebellion itself, let alone an alt-History.

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      2. adrian hsieh  🚀‏ @accidentalflyer Oct 14
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        Ironically Taiping means "Great Peace" in Chinese...

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      3. Brad ' 🐙 🌐' Hemak‏ @hemakhemak Oct 14
        Replying to @accidentalflyer @Noahpinion

        So it does

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      1. David Borlaug‏ @BorlaugDavid Oct 14
        Replying to @Noahpinion

        So what you’re saying is that if schools accepted everyone who applied, we wouldn’t have any more wars.

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      1. WH‏ @soWHACK Oct 14
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        Platt’s Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom is a great telling of this period, including the role of the West.

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      2. Roberto Iannucci‏ @Rosso__Malpelo Oct 14
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        Sounds like a job for @HardcoreHistory or @DBolelli!

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      3. Daniele Bolelli‏ @DBolelli Oct 14
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        it's on my to-do list

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      4. Roberto Iannucci‏ @Rosso__Malpelo Oct 14
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        Non vedo l'ora😍

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      2. Chris‏ @chpusc Oct 14
        Replying to @Noahpinion

        How about a guy who started a war because he didn’t makw it into art school? 🤔

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      3. Chris‏ @chpusc Oct 14
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        *make

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      2. cody clary‏ @codyclary Oct 14
        Replying to @Noahpinion

        "Hong declared that he now understood that his vision meant that he was the younger brother of Jesus and that he had been sent to rid China of the "devils", including the corrupt Qing government and Confucian teaching" vision of grandeur? schizophrenia maybe?

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      3. Cara Coon‏ @search4good Oct 14
        Replying to @codyclary @Noahpinion

        Both? Not mutually exclusive.

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      4. cody clary‏ @codyclary Oct 14
        Replying to @search4good @Noahpinion

        Visions if grandeur is a symptom of schizophrenia . just wondering aloud if that was the case here.

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      1. Eoin McFadden‏ @EoinMcFadden Oct 14
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        Tbf those tests can be irritating 🤓

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      1. Kofi loves Afia‏ @Ptmr2 Oct 14
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        Litterly the second coming which brought an apocalypse to the world's most populous nation flowed by a rule of the meek, which to this day still hates and fears it's radical Christian minority.

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