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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 superchroma »

clouddrover wrote: post #9
valianteffort wrote: post #4

Fighters need adequate time to train, and Zuck has been at it for a couple years now. Trying to rush Elon into a bout without giving him reasonable time to prepare is a weak move. It's clear he isn't as confident as he should be. I expected this fight to take place by year end. That's more than enough time for Musk to whip himself into shape even at his age.

> Trying to rush Elon into a bout without giving him reasonable time to prepare is a weak move. It is truly remarkable how people manage to get things so backwards. Musk was the one who issued the challenge. It was his idea. If Musk isn't ready for it then he shouldn't run around inviting people out for a fight. Musk is an attention seeking narcissist. The only weak moves here are Musk's lame antics.

this, particularly the last part. Musk has a body like a worn out couch, the only thing he is fighting is hair loss.

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

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Post by JumpinJack_Cash »

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…

Reagan, Bush and Trump were even more successful as they were at the helm of a 400M people country with a 20T GDP

Tesla is what? A 80,000 people company with 90bn in revenue? Peanuts compared to the United States of America.

Point is you cannot hide behind your title, sooner or later you have to sit in a room with other people and you have to speak, and if you say idiotic things people are gonna notice and call you out and you'll get exposed.

That's exactly what happened in the last 3 years with Musk.

There's a reason why the saying 'The emperor has no clothes' is so popular, it's because something like this happened thosands of times throughout history. Guy gets incredible and once in a lifetime tailwind, gets a title and sits on it.

People from all over the place come to meet the man with the unique title anticipating a world-shattering intellect/charisma or what have you and in the end they realize it was just a guy who had incredible tailwinds after all

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

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Post by cykotic »

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 is smart and a narcissist. He’s done more than a few things I disagree with and he’s done things that I think qualify for him to be called an asshole.

Musk is and will forever be woefully underprepared to fight against someone with Mark’s training and level of fitness. His challenge to fight was childish and idiotic. Even smart people do idiotic things from time to time.

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 »

JumpinJack_Cash wrote: post #12
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…

Reagan, Bush and Trump were even more successful as they were at the helm of a 400M people country with a 20T GDP Tesla is what? A 80,000 people company with 90bn in revenue? Peanuts compared to the United States of America. Point is you cannot hide behind your title, sooner or later you have to sit in a room with other people and you have to speak, and if you say idiotic things people are gonna notice and call you o…

> Reagan, Bush and Trump were even more successful as they were at the helm of a 400M people country with a 20T GDP

Are you joking here? None of them are even remotely as successful as Musk. A president is not the founder of a country. It's incomparable.

> Tesla is what? A 80,000 people company with 90bn in revenue? Peanuts compared to the United States of America.

You forget SpaceX, Neuralink, Boring company, Twitter, Paypal, OpenAI.

> Point is you cannot hide behind your title, sooner or later you have to get in a room with other people and you have to speak, and if you say idiotic things people are gonna notice and call you out and you'll get exposed.

> That's exactly what happened in the last 3 years with Musk

How is he exposed? Some internet haters are talking smack? Musk is swimming in money while his companies are racking up successes. If anything this makes the haters look even more irrational.

What do you think it takes to create numerous highly successful companies? You don't need to talk to people to do that?

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

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Post by JumpinJack_Cash »

rowanG077 wrote: post #14
JumpinJack_Cash wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reagan, Bush and Trump were even more successful as they were at the helm of a 400M people country with a 20T GDP Tesla is what? A 80,000 people company with 90bn in revenue? Peanuts compared to the United States of America. Point is you cannot hide behind your title, sooner or later you have to sit in a room with other people and you have to speak, and if you say idiotic things people are gonna notice and call you o…

> Reagan, Bush and Trump were even more successful as they were at the helm of a 400M people country with a 20T GDP Are you joking here? None of them are even remotely as successful as Musk. A president is not the founder of a country. It's incomparable. > Tesla is what? A 80,000 people company with 90bn in revenue? Peanuts compared to the United States of America. You forget SpaceX, Neuralink, Boring company, Twitte…

> > Musk is swimming in money while his companies are racking up successes

And by running his wide mouth he has proven the to the world that all of that is in spite of him, not because of him.

It's the equivalent of pop-stars trying to write their own songs or improvising on stage. They are nothing without the structure that propelled them forward, similarly Musk is nothing without luck, had he kept his mouth shut he'd have at least managed to fool those who are not familiar with the concept of survivorship bias, and apparently you seem to be one of them.

To be clear I believe all the above applies to every billionaire not just Musk.

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

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Post by mdwalters »

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.

He does have Jiu-jitsu training

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 »

LinuxBender wrote: post #5
3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t hold your breath.

The 23rd is when South Korea will be texting 51 million people to get into the bunker nearest them as a test . A couple other countries will be doing other nuclear preparedness drills on that day. Maybe Elon and Mark are counting on that going sideways and derailing their plans. "Sorry folks called off fight due to the end of the cease fire"

Mark doesn't need to call anything off. He's participating in actual tournaments and winning against professionals. Meanwhile Musk is just a scammer who said something and is currently walking it back. He just tweeted he may need a back surgery BEFORE the fight. Nice he's leaving this literally for the last days before the fight. Very convincing.
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