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[–] Floppy 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The most powerful people in the world are fucking idiots.

[–] tburkhol 5 points 2 years ago

It's almost like luck and nepotism are more important for success than ability.

[–] JayDurst 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Celebrity deathmatch anyone?

[–] Wilshire 4 points 2 years ago

The game was great too.

[–] WellThisIsNew@fjdk.uk 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Reality really did take a strange turn back in 2020 didn't it? This decade just gets weirder and weirder.

[–] Wilshire 12 points 2 years ago

The world ended in 2012, and the rest is a simulation.

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[–] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 2 years ago

In a cage? Why not a small sub near the Titanic?

[–] Eggyhead@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Rich people desperate for attention.

[–] batcheck 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m with you on this one. Seems like the richer you get the more validation you need. I don’t understand why we are giving them this attention either. I came here looking for people making jokes about how silly this is and that is not what I got

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[–] Liontigerwings@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

say what you will about zuck, but he is not an attention whore. Especially when you consider he made a social media site designed to get people to overshare.

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] DrDooom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I'd buy that PPV!

[–] jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think we can all agree to lose the keys to that cage, right?

[–] Wilshire 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Then throw it in the ocean, right? I'm just asking questions.

[–] motorik 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Can we sew them both up in a leather sack with a badger instead?

[–] TheElectroness 3 points 2 years ago

Hey now, badgers are lovely creatures

[–] nzodd 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can't we just put all the billionaires in a cage, like rats in a bucket ala that scene in Skyfall, and just oops accidentally forget to release them? Or I dunno, just spitballing ideas here, some kind of sealed carbon fiber tube at the bottom of the Atlantic?

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[–] halvdan 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

Edit: feel free to quote me if I'm wrong. Is there an aged like milk sub somewhere?

[–] qwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Wilshire 4 points 2 years ago

!nottheonion@lemmy.ml

[–] storksforlegs 9 points 2 years ago

Never pick a fight with an android. I thought everybody knew that.

[–] z2k_@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I so want to see this happen but I feel like there will be so many rules and padding that it’ll end up being a borefest.

Cage match, anything goes! It’ll bring in huge audiences.

[–] vale_fallacia 4 points 2 years ago

They gotta bandage their hands then dip the bandages in glue then in broken glass.

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[–] DragonFruit@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If they were serious, Musk would get rocked. Musk is older and Zuck has mixed martial arts training.

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[–] SomeGuyNamedPaul 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I place the blame for this squarely at the feet of Al Gore.

[–] Wilshire 6 points 2 years ago

The internet was a mistake.

[–] pixxelkick@pathofexile-discuss.com 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We all know Musk is gonna talk big talk and then do everything in his power to try and come up with excuses to back out last minute.

Like he always does.

Say what you want about Zuck but IIRC the dude has been actively learning martial arts for awhile, no? Isn't that one of his hobbies he has talked about before?

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[–] DannyBoy@mastodon.ie 7 points 2 years ago

@Wilshire Yep... It's official. We're in a South Park episode!!!

[–] natigin@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Has there ever been a simultaneous knock out in boxing before? I'm cheering for that

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[–] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago

Celebrity Death Match, please

[–] jeebus@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

My money is on Fuckerberg. At least he stays in shape with his billions. I don't understand how Elon is so fat when he can pay people to literally put healthy food in his mouth like a baby.

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[–] pseudorandom@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Hopefully they fight on a sub near the Titanic.

[–] bobby_tables@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

It's real in the sense that Elon was like "fight me," and Mark replied "when and where"

That's about it.

[–] SoupOfTheDay@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Someone stop reality, I want to get off

[–] bob@lemmy.havocperil.uk 4 points 2 years ago

I... what? I hope there's a way they can both lose.

[–] stefenauris@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago

Maybe they'll both end up with concussions. or its more likely they'll just end up with red slap marks on their faces

[–] BootlegHermit@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Hopefully it's a fight to the death. Loser's assets get donated to a good cause. Winner faces whatever other egomaniac wants to use their wealth to shit on the rest of humanity.

The battle ends when the last man standing has a net worth of less than $10 million.

[–] Diskolikewhoa@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

RIP to satire. Reality broke and now fiction can't keep up.

[–] CileTheSane@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

The simulation is broken and keeps generating nonsense.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Not sure who to bet on. They are both stupid, but they also both fight dirty.

[–] literallyacat@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

New Battlebots season's gonna be lit

[–] mountainpilot@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

How about if the loser agrees to donate 100% of their wealth to charity, subside on the wages of their lowest paid employee, and disappear from public life?

[–] dnzm@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

...this truly is the weirdest timeline.

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[–] TinyPizza@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

If one of them gets hurt then I think we'll all be the real winners. I hope something inside of Zuckerberg snaps and he does some weird 2 finger, forbidden heart bursting strike on Elon. He paid a man 1 million dollars to teach him that move, under the promise he'd never use it... But just like all bourgeoisie tech bros, he lied.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I demand a fight to the death! TO THE DEATH!
(for both participants)

[–] Realtrain@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Do we have a magazine version of r/nottheonion?

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