Your passive aggressive behavior is delightful
It's not passive. I don't like you. I think you are fucking stupid. I'll continue to call you fucking stupid. Aggressively.

You intentionally edited his statement, stupid. I'll flag that every time, moron.

Yes really
That's a big list with few results. Many cases were ordered into arbitration, many strung along for several years to outspend plaintiffs on lawyers. Singapore and Norway were successful, that's kind of telling. The doge coin scam was textbook pump-and-dump, nothing happened. I stand by my "not really". He seems to get sued a lot and nothing happens. He's found guilty of union busting, pays a minuscule fine and Tesla employees still dont have a union.
But all of this avoids the point I'm making. Musk makes a calculation on how expensive it will be to break laws and pay lawyers and fines or just pick up shop and relocate. Or he threatens the State that sues him and has a big soapbox to spin his side of the story. Robber barons had none these tools.

Somewhat related, look at the case of Everton FC. They were recently found guilty by the English Football Association of breaching FFP rules (they lost too much money in the 20-21 season). They received a 10 point deduction putting them in the relegation zone. Meanwhile, Manchester City FC, owned by a Saudi Prince, have 115 alleged violations of FFP including forging revenue, putting players on the books for other Saudi owned clubs then 'loaning' them to MCFC for free, the Prince's brother 'paid' 60m for naming rights to the stadium in a deal valued at 3-5m, and another 112 similar examples. Der Spiegel laid the case(s) out in a long article with receipts, the evidence is overwhelming. Nothing will be done. Nothing can be done. MCFC have made it publicly known they will sue the FA in 3 countries and force the FA into debt just to pay for the lawyers. They'll sue the directors of the FA personally and force them into protracted court battles. They brag about it. They unveiled a stadium sized TIFO with the name of their head of legal before a match. Like Musk they can spend millions, 100s of millions if necessary tying up their opponents in court forever.
Look at what happened with the PGA. Fearing the prospect of being deposed in an American court the Saudis just wrote a check and bought the PGA as easily as you or I buy a set of golf clubs.

Samuel Paty didn't draw the cartoon. He didn't publish the cartoon. As far as we know he didn't make any comment on the right or wrong of the cartoon. He simply used the cartoon as a prop to build a dialog among his students concerning a much more serious topic, Freedom of Expression.
To be offended by this requires a desire to be offended.

When Samuel Johnson finished the first English dictionary a group of London Karens went to his office on Fleet St. to commend him for not including any "indecent" words. His reply was to thank the ladies for looking them all up. If you're willing to stand on your tippy toes and peer over into your neighbor's bedroom to find something to be offended about, you'll surely find something.
The merchants of offence-taking can't be reasoned with. They will never be happy. No amount of censorship will ever be enough. We ignore them at our peril and to the detriment of free society.

openly ignoring the word of God
ignorant about what Jesus taught
"Yeah, well, that's just like your opinion, man"
-the Dude
The Bible is an open book. No one can agree on what it says. That's why there have been so many schisms, we are witnessing another one in real time. 'God' didn't write the Bible, humans did. Jesus never wrote anything down. The things he supposedly said were written down decades after his death by people who never met him and change depending on which version you read. That's an open invitation to anyone who wants use the words for their own ends, an invitation many Christian leaders are eager to avail themselves of.

ignoring that which they have been taught
Maybe some are, many are doing exactly what their pastors are instructing them to do.

a trillion metric tonnes
For those of you that don't speak French, that's 8,818,480,000,000,000 quarter pounders with cheese.

Clownshow wrote:
Your wish to see Palestine bathed in the blood of Palestinian children has come true!
and then said:
What a hyperventilating drama Queen you are.

This is considered discourse.

business tax rates encourages reinvestment
That was true once, still true in the rare cases where products are produced in America by Americans for Americans. If you tax the NFL more they'll expand the league, lengthen the season and create their own tv network for more market share. But for companies with a global reach, with manufacturing and distribution centers spread around the world, they are immune from a drastic shift in tax policy. They'll just move profits to places with little to no corporate tax rates. Lower rates result in stock buy-backs increasing share price and creating cash to buy up competitors or links of their own supply chain. More profit, more consolidation.

As for the article, among the "three main theories" presented only the third seems viable to me. Not mentioned is the astronomical increases of the financial sector since the 40s, now the number one engine of GDP. If an American capitalist builds a factory, employs thousands of people, buys products from other capitalists and sends a product to market, a share of revenue (admittedly a decreasing share over time) is returned back into the economy as wages. People spend wages bla bla bla...economics. But when profits are generated in the financial sector that money never leaves the sector (except for hookers, coke and yachts). It just accumulates in the hands of very few people, at best it gets spent on more financial products. That sector is allowed to grow and grow to the detriment of all others and produces nothing but rent, and putting a rent-tax on everything that moves. Occasionally it's infused with 'free money' from central banks adding to its' power, wealth and influence and creating inflation for everyone else. And now the rise of Amazon, Alphabet and Apple, who spend less than 1% of revenue on wages will only make the situation worse.

His corporations are in court
Not really. If he gets sued in California he moves to Texas. If he gets sued in Texas he'll move somewhere else. Maybe Australia or China. Apple doesn't want to be subject to American courts so it moves it's headquarters to Ireland.
Globalization is just another word for tax evasion or exporting environmental destruction or as Snoofy points out cheap foreign labor. Robber barons and feudal lords couldn't do any this.

make many false statements
Except Morales was forced to resign and replaced by someone more accommodating to lithium mining. The US and EU provided pressure and funded the opposition to force either a resignation or a civil war. Morales chose the less-bloody option.
Musk didn't make that tweet before the coup, he was bragging after it happened. Now it looks like the Bolivians are going to back-stab the US and EU and turn their minerals over to the Chinese. So watch this space, there will be a new rational for removing the Anez regime. She'll be 'anti-democratic' or 'communist' or some such.

The ultra rich of today have a fundamental connection to the robber barons of the guided age, the landlords of the feudal system, the imperialism of the Caesars and the total ownership of everything from plants to people Kings held; all of them do whatever they can get away with. Society and law has to set limits despite, and in response to, the levers the ultra rich are able to pull for their own advantage. The government broke monopolies but breaking personal wealth that is spread across many sectors of the economy seems a tougher prospect. And the power of the growing financial sector makes that prospect even harder. As the article implies, if Trump had taken his initial 200m inheritance and simply spread it across the stock market he could be worth 8b today. No ingenuity, he doesn't need to produce anything, he wouldn't need a 'brand' or real estate holdings, doesn't need to dream up anything novel or unique. He could have just sat on a beach and watched his money multiply. That isn't healthy for society.

the Tesla driver cult isn't attacking labor trying to organize with rifles
If Musk can, "coup whoever we want!" how is that significantly different from paying Pinkertons to beat and murder strikers or the Slave Patrols in the 18th century? If SpaceX reaches Mars Musk isn't going to hand it over to benefit humanity, it will become his own personal fiefdom. He'll make the laws, he'll own an entire planet...if we let him. If the people of Texas get tired of rocket parts falling on their beaches and neighborhoods he'll move again to a place more accommodating. If he can't do that he'll claim empty ocean and create his own personal State outside the jurisdiction of the laws he doesn't like. This is something Carnegie, Rockefeller or Vanderbilt could have never dreamed of.

If (when) research into AI leads to a super intelligence we wont know until well after it is deployed to enrich and empower its' owner(s). It could by then already be too late to do anything about. It might already be too late. Capitalism has already been replaced by something much worse. Varoufakis calls it Technofeudalism, his book mentioned in the article is fantastic. Consider this, in 2020 the British Exchequer announced GDP had fallen by 20%. A staggering number and much worse than anticipated. The stock market went up in response to the news. Because the financial sector knows that today bad economic news --less production, less profit, more unemployment-- for everyone else means a greater supply of digital currency for them. That isn't Capitalism. That's some new thing worse than any monopoly, robber baron or feudal entrapment.

He's lost his wife, his kids, 40 billion dollars and his spaceship blew up. It's like a bad country song, something Texans can appreciate.

Seems like if you scratch a Pro-Palestinian an antisemite bleeds.

when he finds out just how many places won't hire you when you have a felony
It's sweet of you to presume he was able to hold down a job before his arrest.

investing in a Keurig
belch
French press is the way to go, it's got a handle and you can really get your weight behind it.

How about the children vaporized by bombs
Not just "killed", but vaporized. Vaporized is more dramatic. If they are vaporized how could anyone tell if they're children, human or even organic?
Anywho, feel free to post them.

TBF, how hard is it to fill up the damn coffee maker!?
Prepackaged food stuffs can be deadly in the right hands. I was at a house party years ago and saw a 90lb girl on a morphine patch absolutely whollop her boyfriend with a can of pork-n-beans.

Putin's been successful in destroying Ukraine steel production and seriously disrupting agriculture exports, two main engines of their economy. Both will require decades to fully recover. The low levels of grain production to follow has the added benefit of disrupting Egypt and Turkey, allies of the West, who rely on that grain . He's also made it very risky/impossible for Western energy companies to invest in the massive gas fields discovered in the Ukrainian waters of the Black Sea which helps Russia, Iran and Qatar dominate the LNG market. As long as he can hold any bit of Ukraine, however small, NATO expansion ~probably~ won't happen, this one is a bit if-y.

He can probably sell a withdrawal as a 'win' back home, but he has to keep Crimea which he can easily do if he takes a defensive posture. If he loses Crimea no one could consider this excursion anything other than a resounding L and a pointless loss of life, and his position at home becomes tenuous.

They aren't giving...

The IDF protects the Zionist colonizers in the West Bank, as they run off the Palestinians.
The IDF also drug Israelis from their homes in Gaza and bulldozed them.
2.7mil Palestinians in the WB, where are they being "run off" to?

Israel should take responsibility for what they've done and continue to do.
What does that look like? What do they need to do, or not do, differently?
They are giving the WB back to Jordan and none of the Palestinians living in the WB want to be Jordanians.

even though Zionists created the problem
The British created the problem when they allowed Arabs to migrate there before they had any idea of how to divide the land.

Family history dating back 4000 years does not justify Israel's existence.
Then no country has any real justified existence, a country is simply land you are able to hold militarily. The moment it gets taken from you it's gone forever.
If cultural and historical ties don't matter all colonization or nation building or 'zionism' is justified.

Mmmm, that's good colonial thinking!
Colonial? It's ordinary nationalism.
Do you care what France thinks about us selling submarines to the Aussies and scuttling their contracts?
I don't.

If anything an Israeli does or thinks is "colonial" aren't you also engaging in colonial thinking?
Our ancestors were not born here.
This gets us back to the strange (double) standard being applied to Jews and Palestinians. All Jews forever until the end of time are "colonialists" even if they can date their family history back to Jerusalem for 4000 years. But a Palestinian whose grandfather came from Egypt in 1940 will forever be a Palestinian refugee.