One under-discussed possibility regarding Thiel's apparent move to Argentina is that Argentina has - for many years - allowed certain wealthy, foreign billionaires to establish de facto parallel states in the country, where the federal government declines to intervene, even to protect its own citizens and laws.
Roughly seven years ago, I traveled to Argentina and wrote about how UK billionaire Joe Lewis (who Trump recently pardoned after he was found guilty of insider trading) had established one such "parallel state" in Argentine Patagonia, and even controls a private airport that the Argentine state doesn't even pretend to monitor. (Article link is below)
Did Milei allow Thiel the opportunity to experiment with one such "parallel state"? Given how Thiel and his associates are eager to create "network states" along similar lines, and Milei's own ideological leanings and personal ties to that crowd, it is an angle worth considering.
My 2019 article on Joe Lewis in Argentina for MintPress: https://t.co/RsFvYxfOiI
The idea that this guy is being treated as an authority on Christianity is just absurd. He is re-framing what it means to be Christian for his own ends, and it should be obvious.
This guy worked directly with the CIA and an Iran-Contra criminal to privatize the most Orwellian Bush-era surveillance proposal, creating Palantir in the process, wants to tear down representative government and replace it with a private company run by a CEO/dictator, promotes borgifying humanity and frames it as necessary, and funds and helped create numerous companies that help commit genocide and blow children to smithereens. He embodies the opposite of what are ostensibly Christian values. Let him redefine what it means to be "Christian" at your own risk.
Also, no one would even consider calling this guy "Christian," let alone an authority on it, a few decades ago. But now the PayPal mafia bros largely control the digital realms that now dominate public discourse and have successful bought up a legion of podcasters/influencers, so they can make a large segment of the public believe whatever they want I guess.
In today's world, Emperor Palpatine could also probably successfully frame himself as a well-meaning authority on who and who isn't a baddie.
Holy shit! They changed the rules for Elon again...
They waved the profitability rule & are adding SpaceX to indices only 5 days after IPO... normally it's 90
This forces 401k retirement & passive funds to buy SpaceX at elevated IPO pricing, holding the bags the entire way down
Insurance companies are increasingly investing policyholders’ money in private credit sold by parent firms or affiliated parties, an approach critics say sets up potential conflicts of interest https://t.co/902HW6FHsd
You can't make this up:
On May 22nd, ahead of the market's 3-day closure, President Trump said "Micron is great" and that the company could invest "over $100 billion" in New York.
Today, as markets reopened, Micron's stock, $MU, surged +19%, adding +$150 BILLION in market cap in 1 day.
In just 12 months, the stock's value has gone from $70 billion to a record $1 trillion, adding +$930 billion.
Truly unprecedented.