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That's a good insight, but, at the same time, it's not at all difficult to believe that a Brazilian judge in Brazil banned Twitter "without American backing."
by A_D_E_P_T 2y ago
That's a good insight, but, at the same time, it's not at all difficult to believe that a Brazilian judge in Brazil banned Twitter "without American backing."
That Monroe Doctrine jab also makes zero sense. The Doctrine doesn't hold that other countries in the Western hemisphere shouldn't be allowed to decide matters of law and trade policy for themselves.
All in all, what Thiel is trying to say is terribly unclear. Open to multiple Straussian interpretations, I guess.
- defrost 2y ago> All in all, what Thiel is trying to say is terribly unclear. We're in furiously colorless green sleepy agreement here. Is this deliberate or old age creeping up on someone who once had realistic Supreme Court ambitions and clerked at the highest level in the US legal system. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_fu... ( FWiW the entirity of what the Brazilian judge did or didn't do of his own violoition is a sideshow here )