[FRIAM] and don’t miss this

[Steve Smith]

I think I am glad that Musk's challenge didn't bubble up all over the 
popular media.   While I think it was a typical Musk move, and may have 
some significant psyops value, there is no way in hell it is his place 
to claim to represent Ukraine or whatever bloc of interests that 
surround them.   And on top of that *as if* either side would accept 
such a proxy battle as definitive.  I realize there are millennia of 
precedent for peoples choosing this alternative to mutual decimation and 
see the sensibility to it. Perhaps one could even attribute the Olympics 
to this.

Speculating about who of the two would be a more effective fighter, 
etc.  is like tweener boys sitting around a campfire in the backyard 
(started with gasoline because they could) and arguing about the outcome 
of battles between African Lions and Grizzly bears and other apex 
predators who would never have a natural encounter.

As one of those barely-pimpled kids with gasoline residue on my fingers, 
I speculate that while Putin has a lot more practice with *brutal* 
martial arts practice in his life, Musk probably can equal him in his 
own way in a certain kind of ruthlessness.   I suppose *both* should 
expect a 007-class villain attempt to poison the other in such an 
engagement.

A more realistic challenge might have been Vlod v. Vlad.   Maybe a 
medley of competitions involving improvisational comedy, ballroom 
dancing, and bitch-slapping at arms-length.  For a handicap against the 
younger, more experienced Vlod, some could be held on horseback?

Maybe more appropriate for Musk to challenge the financier behind the 
Wagner Group <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#Wagner_Group>?

Or maybe my favorite blood-and-neuron sport:  "Chess Boxing 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing>":

<https://en.chessbase.com/post/cheboxing-documentary--the-kings-discipline-210613>
https://en.chessbase.com/post/cheboxing-documentary--the-kings-discipline-210613

On 3/15/22 8:26 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
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