What would you give to see two of the world’s richest males throwing poorly aimed haymakers at one another? Better give that one some critical thought as a result of The Verge is now reporting that Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk could get into a battle.
If you’re questioning what I imply by “fight,” I imply like a fight-fight. A bodily battle. A punching-and-kicking sort of a battle. A battle the place one man finally crumples to the mat in a lifeless heap and one other man stands over him sweating and bleeding and yells hoarsely “VICTORYYYY.” (I’m clearly speculating however in my thoughts’s eye that’s how I ideally think about this taking place.)
How may this stupendous flip of occasions have occurred?
Well, as with most fights, it began with some good ol’ common shit-talking. And, as you might need guessed, Musk obtained the ball rolling on that entrance.
To overview, tensions have been excessive between the Meta CEO and the Twitter CEO ever since Meta introduced its plans to launch an apparent Twitter rival. The new platform, which remains to be in testing and is at present referred to internally as Project 92 (although it might finally be referred to as “Threads”), has been considered as a direct risk to the floundering Twitter’s survival. Top Meta execs have additionally been fairly brash about the truth that the app is a Twitter lookalike, which one prime lieutenant to Zuckerberg lately referred to it as Meta’s “response to Twitter.”
Clearly burned by all this, Musk lately responded by doing what he does finest, which is to make trollish jokes. On Tuesday, in reference to Meta’s new app, Musk tweeted: “I’m sure Earth can’t wait to be exclusively under Zuck’s thumb with no other options.”
In response, one Twitter person quipped: “Better be careful @elonmusk I heard he does the ju jitsu now.” They have been after all referencing the Meta CEO’s current escapades in martial arts, which have concerned him critically bulking up.
Musk then trotted out a fairly typical Musk taunt: “I’m up for a cage match if he is lol.”
You’d assume that might’ve been the top of it, however Zuckerberg subsequently responded on Instagram, posting a screenshot of Musk’s tweet with a Jason Bourne-style caption connected to it: “send me location.”
At this level, the pure response to this little back-and-forth was to take into account it a little good-natured ribbing between company foes. Just two wealthy guys having enjoyable with one another, proper?
But now, Zuckerberg’s comms staff seems to be taking issues one step additional and has introduced to The Verge that, nope, Zuck really would soar in a ring with Elon—or, on the very least, he’s dedicated to saying that he’ll till Elon walks away along with his tail between his legs. The Verge’s deputy editor, Alex Heath, says he has “confirmed that Zuckerberg’s post on his Instagram account is, in fact, not a joke, which means the ball is now in Musk’s court.”
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Look, there are few sporting occasions I might pay good cash to see however this has obtained to be one in all them. As to who would win…I truthfully don’t know. Musk appears fairly tall however he appears to spend most of his time behind a keyboard, issuing snark to the lots by way of his failing social media platform. Zuck, alternatively, has been bodily coaching like he’s about to be airdropped into a warfare zone Rambo type. That spectacular feat is offset considerably by the New York Times current claims that he was knocked out chilly throughout one in all his matches (although Zuck has disputed the claims).
Either manner, I consider that we, as a nation, want this battle to occur. We’ve been so divided for therefore lengthy. Enough of the divisiveness and the partisan bickering! Enough of the tradition warfare! What all of us actually need is to come collectively to watch two billionaires beat the residing tar from each other for nebulous private {and professional} causes. Let’s make this occur, America!