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Zuck says he gave Musk an August 26 fight date but he’s ‘not holding my breath’

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Re: Zuck says he gave Musk an August 26 fight date but he’s ‘not holding my breath’

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Post by lilaa »

rowanG077 wrote: post #10
JumpinJack_Cash wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> > Musk is way too smart Is this your rational stance or you just want it to be true? Maybe because you are emotionally attached to SpaceX and Tesla?

Is this a serious response? I have no attachment to any company Musk owns. I own/use not a single product they have made. Maybe, just maybe, it's you who is irrational here. Disliking a person you will never interact with because he has done a few things you disagree with. The guy has a double degree in physics and economics. The guy whose companies single handedly upended the car industry. The guy whose companies bu…

Musk lied about his degree (sources: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1SZerKotu3YRHtuPyqeCa...)

He's a grifter and a narcissist who was very good at throwing money at the right companies and taking credit as 'founder'. I guess he is 'smart' in some sense, but not the kind he likes to pretend to be.

Re: Zuck says he gave Musk an August 26 fight date but he’s ‘not holding my breath’

#22

Post by 3cats-in-a-coat »

rowanG077 wrote: post #7
JumpinJack_Cash wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Musk first wanted to fight Putin then he challenged Zuck. One should think that when you are the one challenging others left and right to fight in the oktagon, you do it while at the peak of your physical form. But of course everything can happen and you have to respect a champion like Musk. A champion at running his mouth, that is. If the fight happens and it’s not a farce it will end up like Khabib vs. McGregor

Musk is way too smart to run into this fight without training. It's simply completely insane to expect this fight to happen with 3 weeks.

If someone tells you “I challenge you to a cage fight”, tell me what timeline you think they have in mind. “I challenge you” and then we wait two years or what? Do you realize this makes no damn sense. Also Musk issued the challenge in June. Not today. Despite Zuckerberg not issuing the challenge, he gave Musk over two months to get his shit together and he clearly can’t.

Re: Zuck says he gave Musk an August 26 fight date but he’s ‘not holding my breath’

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Post by rowanG077 »

lilaa wrote: post #21
rowanG077 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this a serious response? I have no attachment to any company Musk owns. I own/use not a single product they have made. Maybe, just maybe, it's you who is irrational here. Disliking a person you will never interact with because he has done a few things you disagree with. The guy has a double degree in physics and economics. The guy whose companies single handedly upended the car industry. The guy whose companies bu…

Musk lied about his degree (sources: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1SZerKotu3YRHtuPyqeCa... ) He's a grifter and a narcissist who was very good at throwing money at the right companies and taking credit as 'founder'. I guess he is 'smart' in some sense, but not the kind he likes to pretend to be.

This is total misinformation. UPenn confirmed themselves he holds physics and economics degrees https://www.plainsite.org/documents/tbdmox/2019-email-from-t...

It's just insane how Musk can spur such misinformation campaigns. It reminds me off the whole Obama birth certificate stuff. People are just not thinking right.

Re: Zuck says he gave Musk an August 26 fight date but he’s ‘not holding my breath’

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Post by 3cats-in-a-coat »

rowanG077 wrote: post #10
JumpinJack_Cash wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> > Musk is way too smart Is this your rational stance or you just want it to be true? Maybe because you are emotionally attached to SpaceX and Tesla?

Is this a serious response? I have no attachment to any company Musk owns. I own/use not a single product they have made. Maybe, just maybe, it's you who is irrational here. Disliking a person you will never interact with because he has done a few things you disagree with. The guy has a double degree in physics and economics. The guy whose companies single handedly upended the car industry. The guy whose companies bu…

None of this is relevant to the topic at hand. You’re like a North Korean news broadcaster reminding us all of Dear Leader’s infinite glory.

You challenge someone to a fight, then talk over two months how it’s happening, it’s definitely happening, in August, it’ll happen, definitely happening, and then back out… because you were not given enough time?! Your economics degree and car company doesn’t change anything of that.

Re: Zuck says he gave Musk an August 26 fight date but he’s ‘not holding my breath’

#25

Post by rowanG077 »

3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #22
rowanG077 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Musk is way too smart to run into this fight without training. It's simply completely insane to expect this fight to happen with 3 weeks.

If someone tells you “I challenge you to a cage fight”, tell me what timeline you think they have in mind. “I challenge you” and then we wait two years or what? Do you realize this makes no damn sense. Also Musk issued the challenge in June. Not today. Despite Zuckerberg not issuing the challenge, he gave Musk over two months to get his shit together and he clearly can’t.

> tell me what timeline you think they have in mind.

The timeline that both contestants are available and content with? It's not like there is deadline. This is just some lighthearted fun. There is literally 0 reason to rush it.

Re: Zuck says he gave Musk an August 26 fight date but he’s ‘not holding my breath’

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Post by 3cats-in-a-coat »

rowanG077 wrote: post #25
3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If someone tells you “I challenge you to a cage fight”, tell me what timeline you think they have in mind. “I challenge you” and then we wait two years or what? Do you realize this makes no damn sense. Also Musk issued the challenge in June. Not today. Despite Zuckerberg not issuing the challenge, he gave Musk over two months to get his shit together and he clearly can’t.

> tell me what timeline you think they have in mind. The timeline that both contestants are available and content with? It's not like there is deadline. This is just some lighthearted fun. There is literally 0 reason to rush it.

It's jerking around the media and the attention of everyone, and telling Zuckerberg to spend two months in gym with professionals preparing himself, only to then say "oh, I forgot I have a bad back, sorry".

It may be lighthearted fun, for the most part, but it's a microcosm of the Musk condition. The guy is a deeply unserious person, who is always dead serious saying unserious things, and using everyone around him like a play-toy.

The benefit of communication is to share facts and information with one another, so we can be less wrong together, so we can be more coordinated. Musk does the opposite. He aims to mislead, to confuse and to profit from the confusion.

Re: Zuck says he gave Musk an August 26 fight date but he’s ‘not holding my breath’

#27

Post by rowanG077 »

3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #26
rowanG077 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> tell me what timeline you think they have in mind. The timeline that both contestants are available and content with? It's not like there is deadline. This is just some lighthearted fun. There is literally 0 reason to rush it.

It's jerking around the media and the attention of everyone, and telling Zuckerberg to spend two months in gym with professionals preparing himself, only to then say "oh, I forgot I have a bad back, sorry". It may be lighthearted fun, for the most part, but it's a microcosm of the Musk condition. The guy is a deeply unserious person, who is always dead serious saying unserious things, and using everyone around him li…

He is an unseriousness person on twitter for sure. If you as a person take anything Musk says on twitter seriously you have greater problems. You shouldn't take anything on twitter seriously in fact.

It's almost like the people who dislike him most are taking him the most serious. It's funny actually.

Re: Zuck says he gave Musk an August 26 fight date but he’s ‘not holding my breath’

#28

Post by 3cats-in-a-coat »

rowanG077 wrote: post #27
3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's jerking around the media and the attention of everyone, and telling Zuckerberg to spend two months in gym with professionals preparing himself, only to then say "oh, I forgot I have a bad back, sorry". It may be lighthearted fun, for the most part, but it's a microcosm of the Musk condition. The guy is a deeply unserious person, who is always dead serious saying unserious things, and using everyone around him li…

He is an unseriousness person on twitter for sure. If you as a person take anything Musk says on twitter seriously you have greater problems. You shouldn't take anything on twitter seriously in fact. It's almost like the people who dislike him most are taking him the most serious. It's funny actually.

He paid $44 billion for a platform that's just for jokes, and nothing else, is this what you're saying? You're calling him an idiot, then. I distinctly remember him saying the future of the world and free speech depends on Twitter and what not. Is it just for the jokes? This is what we use free speech about, this is what democracy depends on? Fucking around with jokes?

Why do autocratic regimes shut down Twitter in times of unrest? To reduce number of jokes? Why is say former President Trump being sued for promoting insurrection on Twitter? Don't they know it's just for jokes? The accounts of the war crimes in Ukraine that found outlet on Twitter, the news of weather events, earthquakes, crime, scientific news like the LK-99 superconductor candidate, it's all just jokes? The fact the stock price sharply went up when Musk said "I'm taking Tesla private" on Twitter, just jokes?

The only joke here... is you.

And as a matter of fact, Zuckerberg had explicitly asked Musk (not on Twitter, but "in real life") if he's serious about the fight, and he's said "he's dead serious". The problem with Musk being dead serious is that he tends to be dead serious about great many things, and then not deliver. That's not about Twitter, or about jokes. It's who Musk is. He's not reliable.

Re: Zuck says he gave Musk an August 26 fight date but he’s ‘not holding my breath’

#29

Post by badwolf »

mongol wrote: post #17

This doesn't make sense. Why would Musk want to humiliate himself by doing it? Because I can't see it turn out any other way

because the (con)man is incapable of being wrong about anything, or ever admitting he's out of his element, and has his army of online weirdos who will defend every dumb thing that spews forth from him without question.
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