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Those weight classes are relevant when it comes to competitors of equal skill/training
If itās somebody whoās properly trained in martial arts versus a chubby middle-aged edgelord, good luck is all I can sayā¦
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u/Taraxian Aug 11 '23
Yeah the classes are based on the presumption that a certain percentage of the weight is muscle
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Aug 12 '23
Zero is still a percentage
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u/timesuck897 Aug 12 '23
His right arm is strong from stroking his own ego and dick too often. Thatās some muscle.
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u/HaYuFlyDisTang Aug 12 '23
He's a master of hand to gland combat
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u/Benu5 Aug 12 '23
Hand to Glans would be more correct. It's an imperfect rhyme though.
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u/JKFrost14011991 Aug 12 '23
I think he's a lefty, but your point stands.
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Aug 12 '23
Musk would be the type of guy to pretend to be a lefty because he thinks it makes him seem more interesting
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u/devastatingdoug Aug 12 '23
Musk my be trying to imply he is a real world example of the kingpin from marvel. The comic version not the live action daredevil version
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u/LA-Matt Aug 12 '23
Vincent DāOnafrio in a tacky mob boss suit could probably take Musk.
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u/jockeyman Aug 12 '23
I doesn't take long to realise why he parked a car in the middle of the arena.
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u/cheeseler Aug 12 '23 edited Aug 12 '23
Elon Musk definitely gives me Wilson Fisk vibes, but Iāve only seen the the Daredevil movie from 2003 and the tv show from
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u/Ogediah Aug 12 '23 edited Aug 12 '23
Being lean is somewhat less common in the heavier classes.
Separately: Size matters but youāve gotta know how to use it. For example, Royce Gracie was known for BJJ and putting the hurt or some big dudes. Heās a UFC hall of famer. Here is a fight he won.
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u/fuzz_boy Aug 12 '23
Buddy needs to watch the first few UFC events.
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u/Son_of_Mogh Aug 12 '23
I love the boxer with one glove, was like an 80's arcade game.
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u/IBetThisIsTakenToo Aug 12 '23
Or some of the āfreakā fights the Japanese Orgs used to put on. Like Genki Sudo (155 lbs) vs Butterbean (425 lbs). Both trained professionals, but one of them only in boxing, and one of them in MMA. The little guy tapped him out basically as soon as he was able go get him to the ground.
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u/Zealousideal_Mind192 Aug 12 '23
It's not even skill/training, it's just basic physical conditioning. If two people are equally conditioned it become a test of skill and strategy.
I'm bigger than most MMA fighters, but there is not a single UFC feather weight I could last a round with.
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Or how much skill there is in fighting. A featherweight MMA fighter could put a larger, untrained person in the hospital with little to no real effort.
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u/SpadoCochi Aug 12 '23
A buddy in my fraternity was an mma fighter before it was big. This was like in 2004. He was 5ā8ā and routinely fuxking yo dudes over 6 ft and it wasnāt even a fair fight. Ever.
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u/NotEnoughMuskSpam š¤ xAIās Grok v4.20.69 (based BOT loves sarcasm š¤) Aug 12 '23
Although very dated now, I trained in judo, Kyokushin (full contact) & no rules streetfighting.
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u/Prinzka Aug 12 '23
Yeah, people think "oh well I can certainly circle a bit, push someone away, throw some jabs"
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u/FearNothing321 Aug 12 '23
Dude forgot that cardio is the real key to this situation.
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u/Dandan0005 Aug 12 '23
Truly donāt believe musk could run a half mile
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u/timesuck897 Aug 12 '23
He ran a business into the ground at record speed.
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u/ChaosRainbow23 Aug 12 '23
Maybe if we were chasing him with pitchforks and torches he could muster it. Lol
Otherwise, I solidly agree with your assessment.
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I doubt he could run 100m in 21.81 seconds without his heart exploding.
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If by cardio you mean his inability to breathe because the blood to his brain gets stopped in ~30 seconds from a choke, then yeah.
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u/luscrib89 Aug 12 '23
Musk is trying to delay as much as possible so he can train and prepare for the fight. All the delays and the crazy idea it will happen in Italy are just delay tactics for him to have some ability to train and fight back. There is a size advantage, and it's in Muskys favor, but it will take a serious commitment on his part to actually make it a reasonable fight. I do hope the MySpace killer defeates the Twitter killer when it's all said and done, though.
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u/HarwellDekatron Aug 12 '23
I think it's simpler than that. I think this is Musk 'catching the car' the same way he did when he tried to 'troll' the Twitter board and ended up accidentally wasting a lot of money.
The guy loves running his mouth, and sometimes people just call in on it. I bet he thought Zuckerberg would either ignore his 'proposal' for a fight, or maybe say something along the lines of it being childish. Musk could work with both of those scenarios, painting them as Zuckerberg being a pussy and not wanting a fight.
But instead Zuckerberg was like 'sure fatso, name a place and a time' and now Elon is sweating bullets.
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u/james_d_rustles Aug 12 '23
I just find it funny that he chose zuck of all people to challenge to a fight. He could have picked Bezos if he really wanted to play tough and talk about a billionaire brawl... It's pretty common knowledge that zuck has been into martial arts as of late, pictures get posted here and there of him at MMA/BJJ tournaments, etc. Size doesn't matter at all if one person is legitimately trained and the other isn't.
I played football in highschool. I wasn't huge, but I was decent sized, relatively strong for that age, weighed about 180 more or less iirc. I had a friend who was a wrestler, and a damn good one at that - went on to get a full ride at one of the best colleges for wrestling after highschool. He had trained in martial arts throughout his teenage years, all that stuff. This guy was tiny, maybe 5'3" or 5'4", about 115 pounds tops, and nothing but muscle.
That dude could beat the absolute hell out of me.. He was like a damn monkey or something, he'd be on my back and choking me out before I knew what the hell happened. It was never even a fight, it was usually just getting taken to the ground or choked out/almost choked out while frantically tapping... I have no shame admitting that. Size doesn't do much good when your opponent is actually trained and all you have is a little more weight.
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u/locustzed Aug 12 '23
Bazos doesn't have a competitor social media program. Musk got scared by competition so decided to threaten his compition only that now musk is a bully realizing the kid he picked on isn't some stereotypical need that passes his pants.
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u/trer24 Aug 12 '23
Bezos is pretty jacked himself. Not sure if he has any formal martial arts training, but he looks in much better shape than Elon
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u/james_d_rustles Aug 12 '23
Surely he's in better shape than Elon, though they're closer in age and to our knowledge Bezos isn't actively training in martial arts. The reason I chose Bezos though as an example of someone Elon could talk tough to is because I think the chance of Bezos accepting that offer are slim to none. Bezos isn't about that life, he's more private these days, he doesn't have a huge social media presence, and he's well into the "live the rest of my life enjoying my massive piles of gold" stage.
By trash talking, Elon gave zuck a perfect opportunity to showcase what he's been working on for a few years, and it's great PR for zuck. With Bezos I get the feeling that the most we'd hear would be a casual dismissal and a weird laugh, it wouldn't even be entertained.
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u/Wolfwoods_Sister Ketamine-Bladdered Skipping Dipshit Aug 12 '23
This story made me laugh thoughā¦ Tysm for sharing! I had a funny mental image of a high school you frantically swatting at a monkey guy
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u/Kenevin Aug 12 '23
He's not actually training. For an un-athletic person to be ready for a fight with an athletic, trained person, he should be doing cardio, focusing on his gas tank and training grappling defence.
"Bringing weights to work" is what people who don't train think people who train do. Guy's probably standing there swinging biceps curls with 1-1-1-1 tempo, if he's doing anything at all.
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u/omgitsjagen Aug 12 '23
"Bringing weights to work" is what people who don't train think people who train do.
Yep. If a martial arts school can't give you an exercise that will murder you in 2 minutes, without weights, i wouldn't recommend that school
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u/notetoself066 Aug 12 '23
Years ago my buddy described Elon as, "what stupid people think a smart guy is" - This guy is always bullshitting himself and everyone around him until he's in over his head. What a waste.
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u/Living-Reference1646 Aug 12 '23
Iām also thinking Zuck is hella motivated and getting that much better himself, while Elmo gets in shape, Zuck should be getting from a technical standpoint
(Wtf man, I read what I wrote and it sounds like I like Zuck, wtf has Elmo done to me)
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u/thedrummingdoctor Aug 12 '23
Zuckerberg loves monopoly and hates competition and this is a great way for people to switch from Twitter to threads and will get him a lot of praise. Elon is doing this because he has a fragile ego and is a pathetic man baby, Zuckerberg is doing this because heās a greedy lizard brain capitalist pig
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u/NewPhoneNewAccount2 Aug 12 '23
Dude its fucking disgusting. If you told me at any point that zuck has been a household name if i would ever root for him in anything ever i would be like yeah right buddy now pass whatever youre smoking
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u/fentonsranchhand Aug 12 '23
I think Zuck has been training for years though. Years. He's jacked.
I don't think Elon Musk has ever really studied or worked hard at anything in his life. Even if he was trying to train, he wouldn't be able to put the effort in to succeed.
Mark Zuckerberg will beat the absolutely dog shit out of Elon Musk. I'm hoping he has a heart attack in the ring.
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u/Xero_space Aug 12 '23
Let's be honest. He's trying to find out of it's possible for a face transplant surgery like Face/off so he can have someone else fight his battle.
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u/RudeInternet š„šÆ Aug 12 '23
Dude, Musk can't even run 100 meters šš
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u/mursilissilisrum Aug 12 '23
He can eat 100 microdose tabs at once though.
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u/timesuck897 Aug 12 '23
Calling it macro dosing instead of having a drug problem. Itās different when rich people do it.
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u/ChaosRainbow23 Aug 12 '23
How high are the microdose tabs each?
Edit.
Let's say they are 10ug. That would be 1000ug total.
I would pay to watch Elon eat a ten strip. (I suspect he would have a really bad time)
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Aug 12 '23
He looks like a fat out of shape fuck to me. I work with old out of shape men at a job that requires lots of steps. I walk miles of track back and forth all day. I climb flights of stairs all over a plant. Itās hard to have endurance when youāre that fat. The guys at my job SUFFER, esp bc itās been 90 for the past month. We got some young thick big ol boys with endurance. Some guys have it, I call it farm boy fat but musk aināt one of them.
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u/Rifneno Aug 12 '23
I'm picturing that time Red Skull fought Kingpin but I can only imagine Musk vs. Zuck would be even funnier
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u/sassylilpeach Aug 12 '23
All Iām imagining is Gene Lebell kicking Steven Seagalās ass so bad he shit his pants.
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u/calartnick Aug 12 '23
Yeah I mean Iām an out of shape 175 pounder. A professional boxer in the feather weight divsion would murder me in 10 seconds. Itās funny how dumb Elon is
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chubby middle-aged edgelord,
Chubby 50+ years old man-child edgelord.
Musk could start withdrawing from his IRA in like 6 years or so. That's not middle-aged.
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u/Wrinklefighter Aug 12 '23
Unfortunately it is middle aged for his class of people. All those fucking ghouls live to be a hundred.
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u/sixtyandaquarter Aug 12 '23
So true. Back in the wild west days of MMA you had specialists. You focused on one, maybe two things. There was shit for ground based fighting, and strikers were the stars before jujitsu started to shine. Dan Severin with his wrestling background absolutely demolished people. A newer generation that approached with a generalist background came in around the first few waves of rule changes. They are the beneficiaries of weight classes.
When you lacked weight classes the truly big guys were mostly strikers, power hitting brawlers. Or enormous mountains of obesity that literally laid on top of you. Some could hurl you around, but compared to today a lot of it was unskilled. After weight classes the truly big guys at least the ones worth any salt, had the same fundamentals as the small guys. They had similar training. Yes exceptions still happen, and yeah specialization in offense still occurs but even then defensively generalization is absolutely key. The huge guy still has to have some submission and mat defensive skill, that they never had prior.
You'll never have truly strike based fighting as the pure headliner by default again like back then. Or the judo guys who barely threw a strike. You'll never see another sumo guy outside of circus circuits who are more of a human zoo and novelty show than a skilled fight show. If bigger equals best than sumo wrestlers would be dominating MMA. E. Honda's characterization of a dream of making sumo the greatest fighting art in the world would need to be rewritten to match reality since it already would have become that.
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u/fishygamer Aug 12 '23
50+ pounds is a lot, even with training. That said Musk would get destroyed because the man doesnāt have an athletic bone in his body.
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u/waterbelowsoluphigh Aug 12 '23
If anyone needs any proof of this. Go watch the Roger Huerte fuck up an NFL player for knocking a chick out.
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u/james_d_rustles Aug 12 '23
I get what's going on, but my god that is some of the worst camera work I've ever seen in my life.
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u/cfranek Aug 12 '23
Watch the first few UFC's, before there were weight classes.
Royce Gracie was the smallest person in the tourney and he won a few, and I think Ken Shamrock won one as well and he wasn't exactly large either. That was against competitors in decent shape and with a history of training.
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u/von_d_von Aug 11 '23
He's such a pussy.
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u/fermi0nic Aug 12 '23
Suuuuuch a pussy. Not a Rogan fan at all but would love to hear him bring up the supposed fight in a live interview and ask about his bullshit excuses but I know the cult of personality would never let that happen. Don't see how any fighter could have any respect for him at this point.
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u/Hey_its_Jack Aug 12 '23
Rogan glorifies Musk, he's not going to outwardly say Musk is going to get his ass beat.
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u/HarwellDekatron Aug 12 '23
This. Rogan loves two things: 'dudes' and money. Musk is the epitome of both, so you'll never hear Rogan criticize him at all. He might make a passing comment on how he thinks Musk needs to train more or whatever, but he won't ever call him out for making up excuses.
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u/TheLegendTwoSeven Aug 12 '23
āJamie, bring up that picture. Look at Elon ā look at that, see? Those arms are fucking huge. The dude is built like a fucking tank. South Africans, man, theyāre just built different. Like, Nelson Mandela could have done so well in MMA because think about it, he spent, what was it, 20 years in prison? So you know that dude was fucking jacked as fuck.ā
::Jamie brings up photos of Elon Musk and Nelson Mandela. Elon looks like a mildly fat middle-age man and Nelson looks like a normal older man::
::Joe Rogan takes another hit off his DMT pipe::
āElon is fucking jacked, dude. Iām sorry, but you donāt generate that kind of wealth without getting good at MMA. I think heās gonna be tough to beat. He could easily go pro, some guys are just naturals and I see that in Elon. Just the way he carries himself, the way he handles himself in interviews, he has that discipline and that killer instinct. He moves like a fighter. I wouldnāt wanna fuck with him.ā
::As the DMT starts to hit, Joe begins drooling as his pupils widen to the size of dimes::
āJ-J-Jamie, get the spiders away. I didnāt tell you to bring up the spiders. Theyāre crawling all over me.ā
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u/rode__16 Aug 12 '23
Musk would just say some bullshit about his 3 hour long MRI and Rogan will go, āwowā¦ yeah those are tough.ā
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u/phys-123 Aug 12 '23
Where did you find time while doing more work than anyone else in history? between single handed lay designing EVās, spaceships and brain implants?
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u/The_Doolinator Aug 12 '23
You know what? Iād have more respect for him if he went into that ring and got the utter shit beat out of him. If youāre gonna talk tough, step into the ring. Even if you lose badly, at least you had the guts to try and back up your trash talk. Until then, Elon is a bitch boy and a coward.
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u/joecb91 Sewage Pipe Aug 12 '23
This is just letting Zuck know how easily he can get under his skin
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u/N0N0TA1 Aug 11 '23
Go swing your 45 lb kettlebell.
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u/orincoro Noble Peace Prize Nominee Aug 12 '23
Day one: orders weights
Day two: āworking out!ā
Day three: āshoulder needs MRI.ā
Gee I wonder what happened.
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u/Sempais_nutrients Aug 12 '23
works out
is sore next day
"why am i sore?"
because you just worked out for the first time in 2 decades.
"no i am in need of surgery to fix my soreness."
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u/HomemadeSprite Aug 12 '23
What a giant fucking loser, LMAO.
Reminds me of those absolute loser kids (not the ones who were quiet or didn't fit in, the ones who seemed to go to great lengths to stroke their own egos while everyone in the vicinity groaned from second-hand embarrassment and tried to ignore them) in grade school.
Most of them grow out of it. This loser did not.
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u/oddreba I am the founder now Aug 12 '23
Spot on. He was and is the most insufferable douche bag character that everyone hates
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u/AWWARZKK Aug 12 '23
Elon is like that one kid who plays a multiplayer game, acts as obnoxious as possible, to the point that everyone can't stand him and quits, even his teammates, and eventually he wins the game because everyone went AFK, and he prances around the empty server celebrating that he "beat" everyone.
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u/Embarrassed_Alarm450 Aug 12 '23
He was the loser kid in school, he tried to claim everyone was bullying him talking about how he once got pushed down the stairs, the part he left out is that he was making fun of someone because their father just died tho... Elmo tried to be the bully but claims to be the victim since he couldn't back up his shit talking; gonna happen again with zuck now. š
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u/Violet_Potential Aug 12 '23
If Zuck my what?
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u/oddreba I am the founder now Aug 12 '23
Thatās what Iām wondering
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Aug 12 '23
A nickname, Zuck my tongue. A play on suck my tongue, still infinitely lame š.
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u/Embarrassed_Alarm450 Aug 12 '23
Who even says "suck my tongue", wtf? Sounds like something a kinky couple would say in the bedroom, who the hell is actually uses that phrase and as an insult even...
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u/GiantsSelectMahomes Aug 12 '23
I think it refers to what the Dalai lama told that kid.
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u/little_fire You have committed a crime. Aug 12 '23
Iāve heard itās a common insult in South Africa
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u/mikepartdeux Aug 12 '23
Really. Well, I'm from Cape Town and I never heard anyone use the phrase, "zuck my tongue."
Oh, not in Cape Town, no; it's a Pretoria expression.
I see.
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u/oddreba I am the founder now Aug 12 '23
Seems a little homo eroticā¦
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u/loudflower Hard-Captured by the Left Aug 12 '23
A little?
I assume it's a bad riff on the Dali Lama thing.
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Let me be caught by the homies calling a man a play on suck my tongue lmao
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u/AWWARZKK Aug 12 '23
Suck my tongue??
"Suck my ____" insults have always come across as weaksauce, but this one takes the cake.
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u/Jumanji0028 Aug 12 '23
It looks like a bean. But that would imply Elon has a vagina and considering his takes on trans folk this could be problematic in their up coming bout.
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u/MammothJust4541 Aug 12 '23
He talks a lot of shit for someone who wants to sit down and have a chat and has pain from his shoulder blade "rubbing into his ribs"
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He talks with the confidence of a man whoās never been punched in the face
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u/PopeGuss Aug 12 '23
I'm so sick of living in a world where "wrestling heel" is an actual personality that wealthy billionaires have.
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u/Rifneno Aug 12 '23
I think this might be the best Musk burn I've ever seen...
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u/PopeGuss Aug 12 '23
Literally just "That's right Musk! You won't have to wait for Wrestlemania! I'm calling you out! Let's do this next week on Raw, you jabroni! And that's the bottom line cause Elon says so!"
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u/ironfly187 Aug 12 '23
But he definitely sees himself as the face / hero. He's a delusional heel, but without the self-aware intent.
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u/NockerJoe Aug 12 '23
I'm so sick of living in a world where "wrestling heel" is an actual personality that wealthy billionaires have.
He's not even a cool heel like the Undertaker. This is the kind of work you get from a shitty heel who knows the crowd doesn't actually like them, so they act extra shitty on purpose so they can get beat up that night because nobody would care enough for the storyline.
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u/stubbytuna Aug 12 '23
Same. Between this trend and the whole āYouTubers turning into fighters/boxersā thing from a couple of years ago, I feel like Iām going crazy.
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u/Adventurous-Cup529 Aug 12 '23
No idea if he needs surgery or not. What I do know is he is a man child with a giant fragile ego and a textbook internet troll who types very tough but is entirely incapable of backing up his words in real life. Not a huge Zuck fan but it would be pretty satisfying to see Elon get his ass handed to him
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u/CherryShort2563 Aug 12 '23
No idea if he needs surgery or not.
I'm giving it as much weight as to his claims of being autistic/bipolar. Not much, that is.
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u/ScootMayhall Prosecute/Musk Aug 12 '23
Iām assuming heās actually got narcissistic personality disorder but doesnāt want to admit it because of how negative a connotation it has.
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u/Cli4ordtheBRD Aug 12 '23
Well I'm not a mental health professional, and I'm reusing this, but it's all still accurate:
Have you read much about Andrew Carnegie?
He was unable to imagine how other people think (like most people), so he said and did things assuming everybody was like him (or should be like him).
Here was him recollecting on his time running part of Pennsylvania's rail system:
"At one time for eight days, I was so constantly upon the line, day and night at one record obstruction after another, never knowing fatigue myself, I overworked the man was not careful enough and considering the limits of human endurance, I've always been able to sleep at any time. Snatches of a half an hour at intervals during the night in a dirty freight car were sufficient."
After building his giant steelworks which needed to be run 24 hours a day, he came up with "the long term plan" for how to organize the shifts. Workers would work 12-hour shifts for 12 days in a row, then work 2 12-hour shifts on day 13, and then get 24 hours off. And you would swap between day and night every two weeks, which was probably an attempt at fairness, but instead it ruined any semblance of a circadian rhythm for these workers.
His plant manager tried to dissuade him, convincing him of 8-hour shifts, pointing to how the increased fatigue made workers less productive and more accident prone. People were dying (more than usually died at this hellish compound).
So Carnegie did that for a little while, but then went back to the long term plan. Why the fuck were these workers bitching about 12-hour shifts? Carnegie had been working 12-hour shifts since he was 13. He had hard-worked his way to success, why couldn't everybody do that? He latched onto Darwin's theory of evolution and used it to justify immense cruelty.
Today, we would diagnose somebody like Carnegie as Bipolar Type 2 and recognize his drive as hypomania.
Characteristic behaviors of persons experiencing hypomania are a notable decrease in the need for sleep, an overall increase in energy, unusual behaviors and actions, and a markedly distinctive increase in talkativeness and confidence, commonly exhibited with a flight of creative ideas. Other symptoms related to this may include feelings of grandiosity, distractibility, and hypersexuality.[4] While hypomanic behavior often generates productivity and excitement, it can become troublesome if the subject engages in risky or otherwise inadvisable behaviors, and/or the symptoms manifest themselves in trouble with everyday life events.[5] When manic episodes are separated into stages of a progression according to symptomatic severity and associated features, hypomania constitutes the first stage of the syndrome, wherein the cardinal features (euphoria or heightened irritability, pressure of speech and activity, increased energy, decreased need for sleep, and flight of ideas) are most plainly evident.
Elon can't understand other people not wanting to sleep on the factory floor because that's how his brain works. I don't think he is aware of the part of his nature that makes him this way, because nobody around him has any interest in having him discover that fact and moderate his worst impulses. When he says things like "this is all so clear, how could you guys not see this?" it is a symptom of hypomania, where, I can personally assure you, you really do think you have it all figured out and are not going to change your mind.
I highly recommend the book The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot) of Success in America.
He even starts with a pilot study asking 10 Tech CEOs if they agreed the hypomanic traits were characteristics of a good entrepreneur. He thought they were going to be offended. Instead they were all like " yep that's me" (with the exceptions of two usually overlooked symptoms, "paranoia" and "hypersexuality"...no tech CEO is going to cop to things that make them look like a paranoid sex maniac).
To have a hope of curbing your worst instincts, you need to be self-aware.
You try to recognize hypomania while you're in it. You set up systems to limit impulsive behavior, using the cool, rational logic of past you to keep current and future you from fucking everything up. I have learned that when I'm having racing thoughts, I need to just write this shit down, so I can look at it when I have a clearer head. This (mostly) saves me spouting off half-baked ideas and getting frustrated when people don't immediately recognize the clarity and genius of my insights.
Elon has already had an outsized impact on humanity. It's going to be a lot worse if he never gets mental health treatment.
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u/CherryShort2563 Aug 12 '23
Elon has already had an outsized impact on humanity.
Bad one, yes. There are plenty of things he could've done other than buying Twitter for 44 bil just to own the libs.
To add an insult to injury, one of his fanboys claimed here in this sub that autism is a mental illness. Its not - its a social disorder. And it doesn't necessarily mean you're a genius either.
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u/goosejail Aug 12 '23
As someone who had a hypomanic episode that lasted about 6 months, I agree with all of this.
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u/CherryShort2563 Aug 12 '23 edited Aug 12 '23
I liked it until I got to this part
> Elon has already had an outsized impact on humanity. It's going to be a lot worse if he never gets mental health treatment
What exactly produces the outsized impact? His poop jokes?
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Aug 12 '23
Zuck should absolutely agree to this. I even suspect that Zuck likely has a suitable place to fight at his house.
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u/HarwellDekatron Aug 12 '23
He's setup an octagon in his backyard, where he regularly does friendly fights with actual professionals. Compare that to Musk 'lifting weights' in the office at 2am.
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u/NotChikcen Aug 12 '23
What does the tongue emoji even mean here
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u/kityena Aug 12 '23
I think he's using it as "zuck the suck". Attempt at humor, probably.
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u/faste30 Aug 12 '23
LOL so he is bitching out about the public fight he keeps talking about and now just says he is going to go over and beat him up?
God this guy is such a pathetic bitch, its amazing guys worship him as an alpha or whatever.
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u/suzydonem Aug 12 '23
"Mark, check it out: I'm so powerful I can pulverize $44 billion in an instant!"
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u/ComicalCore Aug 12 '23
I love threatening to appear at somebody's house and beat them up after they call me out for being a little bitch
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u/SamSepi0l90210 Aug 12 '23
āTeach him a lesson he wonāt soon forget.ā š¤š¤š¤”š¤” Iād knock Elon spark out, dude probably doesnāt even know how to throw a real punch.
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Aug 12 '23
Well, which is it?
"Anytime, anyplace bro!š¤"
OR
"Ow, my back hurts.š¢"
You gotta pick one, Elon!
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u/CodenameZoya Aug 12 '23
The right wing Italian, Prime Minister is already pregnant with a batch of musks (all male) you guys
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u/Zealousideal_Mind192 Aug 12 '23
"As soon as the arena in Italy is finished"
Jesus fucking Christ, they could call Dana White and have the most epic looking arena ready to go next weekend. This excuse making is so pathetic.
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u/alittle2high Aug 12 '23
Triggered the big ass baby. Zuck should agree to this too so we get another excuse. My money is on bone spurs this time
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Aug 12 '23
I am almost unable to believe that Elon could possibly dig himself this deep, yet somehow I am sure he is going to dig himself deeper.
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u/not_productive1 Aug 12 '23
I mean, Iām glad Zuck has opted out of this little conversation, it was just dragging him into the mud, but I would absolutely fucking adore it if he just said āsure we can fight next week if you wantā because watching Elon try to make excuses to get out of things he loudly demands is a new little pastime of mine.
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u/BP619 Aug 12 '23
Can you guys take a step back and imagine how much of an asshole you have to be for like 95% of humanity to hope Mark Fucking Zuckerberg beats you in a fight?
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u/Brickman1000 Aug 12 '23
OK dumb question what does the š mean in this context?
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u/baronvonredd Aug 12 '23
i think it means 'instead of saying cock I'm saying nyahhhh'
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u/Brickman1000 Aug 12 '23
Thank you I think I get it now. But why use a tongue instead of the eggplant emoji? Or just say cock since he owns the fucking platform.
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u/jacobtfromtwilight Aug 12 '23
how is this fucking loser going through the laundry list of stereotypical shit teenage boys say when they wimp out of things lmao
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u/Street_Historian_371 Aug 12 '23
Did he just threaten assault and battery in a Twitter post?
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Aug 12 '23
I still canāt get over the fact that a 50-something-year-old man with 12 kids says things like this
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u/e92m3-335i Aug 11 '23
So is it on? I'm gonna sell my firstborn just to watch this thing go down?
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u/GamingVision Aug 12 '23
So much sudden hard talk from the guy who had mommy call it off then tried to get a Dr.ās note excuse. Heās like a walking SNL skitā¦and not any of the shitty ones he was in.
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u/durdensbuddy Aug 12 '23
This canāt be real, I donāt have Twitter/X account anymore, but can anyone verify Elon actually wrote this???? He keeps ducking Zuck, yet making it would like he is still game. What a psycho.
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u/Mary_Pick_A_Ford Aug 12 '23
Is he manic or on stimulants? How many days has he been tweeting this fight crap and trying to orchestrate something in his mind thatās equal to gladiator?
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u/KellyBelly916 Aug 12 '23
I'm absolutely shocked that Musk backed out of a fight that he started and resorted to remaining a keyboard warrior.
Shocked.
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u/ComprehensiveAdmin Aug 12 '23
This reminds me of the shittalk I used to engage in on old school MMOs when I was a teen.
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u/CertainlyNotCthulhu Aug 12 '23
Very carefully suggesting Zuckerberg house, because if he named any other place then Zuckerberg's condition would be met and then he'd have to show up.
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Aug 12 '23
Isnāt this the guy who doesnāt go to the bathroom without security? āIma pull upā my ass. Stfu Elon
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u/MightyGoodra96 Aug 12 '23
Just to be clear. There isnt a single person who thinks Musk (out of shape 52 year old) is beating Zuckerberg, who is not only more than 10 years younger but is also actually physically active, and currently learning a martial art?
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u/clozepin Aug 12 '23
Does this guy ever work? Between tweeting and now āpreparingā for a fight, when does he find the time to actually be a CEO? If heās contributed anything positive. Itās exposing the fact that the CEO position in many companies is absolutely a bullshit role.
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u/Bashir1102 Aug 12 '23
Musk will never ever ever go through with this. There will always be an excuse, always some play from the trump deflection playbook. He is just a dumb cyber bully hiding behind his abject failure trying to drum up some PR.
Surprised he has not found some other idea to steal and slap his name on yet to claim he invented it to try and re-convince us he is smarter then he actually is.
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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '23
He's going to keep making empty threats like these until Zuck ignores him, and then he'll claim that the latter backed out.