Scroll up [1]. The thread was him defending the banking system as being obviously superior, by this collegiality, to the crypto world.
If you're right, that his point was just, "between powerful agents within this platform, there exists a state of mutually assured destruction that makes them play nice", then ... well, that's not much of a defense.
The test of a platform is whether it defends the rights of everyone, not whether the few big-time power-brokers can defend themselves by such long-term game-theoretic threats.
[1] https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1443738002065268736