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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Marina Hyde

So Donald chatted with Elon, and here’s the future as they see it – losers win, incompetence rules

A smartphone screen showing Donald Trump and Elon Musk's X profiles.
Donald Trump joined Elon Musk for a chat on X on Monday night. Photograph: Andre M Chang/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Would you like to travel in the advance party to Mars, aboard the space rocket of a man who can’t sort a livestream? Ideally you would have to get in line for this species-level honour behind thousands of Earth’s leading shitposters, who not only trust implicitly in X owner Elon Musk, but truly believe that if they grind away for hours a day telling him that on his platform, one day he will see one of those posts. I hope he does, guys!

In the meantime, my favourite recent headline on this interplanetary settlement programme ran “Elon Musk denies his sperm will seed Mars colony”. Sure. It’s just a hunch, but I feel like they’re going to have way more sperm than they need up there. It’s the other bit necessary for human life that you sense will be in shorter supply.

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