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It's genuinely the funniest thing that these two grown ass men are writing about each other in what is essentially their own private diaries. The enemies to lovers to enemies story just keeps getting spicier. The fanfic is going to be legendaty.

I hope they each have a picture of each other on their dartboard. I hope Elon takes everything Trump ever game him and launches it into space in a fit of tearful rage.

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It would be funnier if they weren't both trying to destroy my country in various ways.

Seriously. It's heartening to see some kind of split, but depressing when you see it's just from Musk wanting to thump fundamentalism about tHe dEbT [0]. I guess Musk's excuse for being a true believer is that he was a newcomer to the Republican party? Republicans have been the more profligate spenders of "taxpayer money" for longer than I've been alive. Trump certainly slid right in to his new snake skin, I don't know why Musk couldn't.

But really on reflection I'm back to my original appraisal wondering if it's all just kayfabe with Musk trying to keep the so-called "Libertarian" contingent on board, with monetary inflation part of the destructionist plan just being a minor let down.

[0] Debt denominated in a currency we control is certainly indicative of something, but it isn't nearly as big of a deal as other countries losing confidence in the US. Ergo cutting scientific research, destroying academic institutions, and eliminating foreign policy outreach programs to "save money" actually makes our financial position worse.

It was incredibly fun reading and was very cathartic to see the explosion everybody knew had to eventually happen. At the same time, I don't see any way it all shakes out in a way that betters the country. I think it's likely we end up with a consolidation of Trump's authority.

Trump has 3.5* years. (shrug)

Musk has 40+ ish?

I'm pretty sure who ”wins” in the end.

I don't think Elon will survive 3.5 years. He's spiraling already and the future is looking bleak for his companies or at least him being in charge of them, I think more than a 50% chance of OD or suicide soon

Musk can't be president, so there's that at least.

> writing about each other in what is essentially their own private diaries

And yet, those "diaries" are an incredibly effective way to control the public narrative.

This. I find it hard to believe that these are really just spur-of-the-moment shitposts. May not be very systematically choreographed (although I wouldn't be surprised if so) but even the stupidest troll plays the audience. People just can't help but feed the trolls.

They are playing everyone and loving it. They have both never felt better.

I mean X is one of the largest social networks on earth, a private diary would be more like using bluesky

What was meant is that Elon owns Twitter, while Trump owns Truth Social. These platforms are their "personal diaries."

Still one where going against Elon gets you deplatformed though…

There are plenty of people who do nothing but hate Elon on that platform. People community notes him all the time

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