During the surreal and often devastating instances when it seems the nation is burning, the internet’s pyros come out to play. They giggle and serve up their macabre humor, as if certain dystopia is their fetish—in turn entertaining us as the smoke rises and the ashes fall.

It was mere seconds after Elon Musk and Donald Trump began their bitter ex-lovers’ quarrel that the phrase “the girls are fighting” spread across my timeline at a dizzying pace that was almost impossible to keep up with, like a vaccine-preventable contagious disease during RFK Jr.’s tenure.

“The girls are fighting” is a phrase used cheekily to both signal surprise and acknowledge the silliness whenever a spat arises seemingly out of nowhere between two formidable people, whether within your friend group or in the pu

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