Two rich nerdboys Elon and Mark don’t want to be seen as two rich nerdboys. Instead, they want the world to acknowledge them as Musk ‘n’ Berg, two boyz in the hood. So, they have been playing up a cage fight, hoping that everyone will treat it as some dope 21st-century White capitalist-pugilist version of Rumble in the Jungle. Some took the ‘fight’ promise seriously, thinking that the match would be a gladiatorial fight to the death, with Donald Trump playing Commodus with his thumb permanently down and the stadium reverberating with MAGA! MAGA! But it was to be an MMA bout – not Musk-Meta Alpha Maleplay, but Mixed Martial Arts.
On Sunday, though, the ‘thinner’ Zuck even called that off, posting on Threads: ‘Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead.’ Responding on X, Musk called the Meta-physical a ‘chicken’. Then, on Tuesday, in an X post, the Muskular One said he intends to instruct a self-driving Tesla car to take him to Zuckerberg’s residence in Palo Alto, where he will propose a fight. He also declared (the man doesn’t just ‘say’) that he intends to livestream the fight. Maybe Musk should hit the brakes and stick to his Xbox. Even as publicity, a Musk-Mark fight is, well, lamer than boomers on TikTok.
