What would you give to see two of the world’s richest males throwing poorly aimed haymakers at one another? Higher give that one some severe thought as a result of The Verge is now reporting that Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk might get right into a struggle.
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When you’re questioning what I imply by “struggle,” I imply like a fight-fight. A bodily struggle. A punching-and-kicking sort of a struggle. A struggle the place one man finally crumples to the mat in a dull 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 happening.)
How may this stupendous flip of occasions have occurred?
Properly, 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 assessment, 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 brand new platform, which remains to be in testing and is at present referred to internally as Challenge 92 (although it might finally be known as “Threads”), has been seen as a direct risk to the floundering Twitter’s survival. High Meta execs have additionally been fairly brash about the truth that the app is a Twitter lookalike, which one high lieutenant to Zuckerberg not too long ago referred to it as Meta’s “response to Twitter.”
Clearly burned by all this, Musk not too long ago 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 certain Earth can’t wait to be completely beneath Zuck’s thumb with no different choices.”
In response, one Twitter consumer quipped: “Higher watch out @elonmusk I heard he does the ju jitsu now.” They had been after all referencing the Meta CEO’s current escapades in martial arts, which have concerned him severely bulking up.
Musk then trotted out a reasonably typical Musk taunt: “I’m up for a cage match if he’s lol.”
You’d assume that will’ve been the tip of it, however Zuckerberg subsequently responded on Instagram, posting a screenshot of Musk’s tweet with a Jason Bourne-style caption hooked up to it: “ship me location.”
At this level, the pure response to this little back-and-forth was to contemplate it just a little good-natured ribbing between company foes. Simply two wealthy guys having enjoyable with one another, proper?
However now, Zuckerberg’s comms crew seems to be taking issues one step additional and has introduced to The Verge that, nope, Zuck really would leap in a hoop 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 submit on his Instagram account is, the truth is, not a joke, which suggests the ball is now in Musk’s courtroom.”
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Look, there are few sporting occasions I’d pay good cash to see however this has obtained to be one in all them. As to who would win…I actually do not know. Musk seems fairly tall however he appears to spend most of his time behind a keyboard, issuing snark to the plenty by way of his failing social media platform. Zuck, alternatively, has been bodily coaching like he’s about to be airdropped right into a struggle zone Rambo model. That spectacular feat is offset considerably by the New York Occasions current claims that he was knocked out chilly throughout one in all his matches (although Zuck has disputed the claims).
Both means, I imagine that we, as a rustic, want this struggle to occur. We’ve been so divided for therefore lengthy. Sufficient of the divisiveness and the partisan bickering! Sufficient of the tradition struggle! What all of us really want is to return collectively to look at two billionaires beat the residing tar from each other for nebulous private {and professional} causes. Let’s make this occur, America!