Do people actually contact you with that?

HN does read like its full of jerks. Altman, Thiel, Curtis, YC connection tells a lot.

Both can be true

What zero-knowledge god damn? You are submitting your payment details, anything after that is pinky promise.

Oh, lying.

Why rudeness?

I’m not spreading any pro-imperialism narrative, where did you get that from. Its a fact that european empires colonized world when those states were feudal. Before that during middle ages there were settlers from german lands towards the east. Probably inspired lebensraum ideas. And I bring up 1848 because during spring in that year many revolutions happened with liberal demands. And empires existed before that.

Liberalism came from systems that did rely on settler-colonialism for a reason

And the reason is? I don’t quite follow.

Could you explain how you’re conscious of colonialism while only discussing its system in terms of its most privileged benefactors?

Maybe because I’m from central Europe?

One common idea of birth of liberalism is that it comes from industrialization. But this doesn’t hold because Russia and China are perfect counterexamples. I was more convinced that it comes from evolution of Western Christian philosophy. I read some french author for supportive arguments and an indian anti-colonialist one which also supports this argument but of course from the opposite.

So all in all I would rather examine philosophical currents in Europe when trying to understand liberalism.

As for colonialism. Being product of feudal logic makes great sense to me

Colonialism peaked in 19th century when countries doing it werent liberal democracies. Universal suffrage for men became thing only at the end of century. But widespread demands started in 1848. Before that voting was restricted to income/tax/property.

political system that emerged in the exact places colonialism benefitted represents a political system that emerged out of colonialism

Not all european liberal democracies had colonies. But it is true that those countries that had them, didn’t decolonize after liberalization.

I really do not get your point of tying liberalism with colonialism. Fact is that colonialism was done by European monarchies which weren’t liberal states at the time. The power structures were feudal. They were only beginning to transition into liberal democracies.

It definitly isn’t easy going. Just write whats on your mind and be careful to not doxx yourself.

Its not part of the standard

Thiel is connected to this guy?

Damn so many people in the comments on this stuff