# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442 "2022-04-25T22:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 100
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1981 "2022-12-13T01:03:11Z")
Maybe this is the start of the sensible team’s version of “Let’s go, Brandon”? ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1982 "2022-12-13T02:18:23Z")
It’s really really weird how all those Twitter bots somehow manifested in real life and all decided to go to a Chapelle show. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1983 "2022-12-13T04:06:19Z")
The Trust and Safety Council has disbanded. > ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1984 "2022-12-13T13:02:08Z")
He’s @popehat on post.news, too. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1985 "2022-12-13T21:49:47Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Apple charges a 30% “tax” on app sales into its golden-walled garden. It seems reasonable for vendors selling into the garden to charge the users for that. Apple is welcome to fleece the users who knowingly choose to move into that walled-garden. The alternative formulation, where the vendors in effect sell their product at a discount into the walled garden after the wall-builder takes their cut, seems wrong. If Apple chooses to make their customers less desirable as customers to app vendors, that’s certainly their right. I shouldn’t stick my head into this mess, but… Are you aware of the business practices called commission and mark up? As in: I’ll sell your stuff, but I’ll take a cut to keep the store up and running and make a buck from it. Apple’s made billions from this. As has Amazon, Walmart, Sears and Billy Goats Tavern (maybe not billions for the latter). I find it confounding that in the consumer society that is America, someone calls a mark-up a tax, using scare quotes. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1986 "2022-12-13T23:23:01Z")
Musk is rapidly becoming the hero of QAnon 2.0. There’s a wave of people out there who really think he is somehow fighting child trafficking. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1987 "2022-12-13T23:29:20Z")
That’s correct. And against board rules on misgendering. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1988 "2022-12-13T23:39:47Z")
If you think so, then report the post ya fuckwad. Didn’t Musk declare that prosecute was the pronoun of choice? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1989 "2022-12-13T23:41:48Z")
OTOH, Elmo has also said “pronouns suck”, so perhaps it would be correct to avoid using any pronouns to refer to that particular individual. Or to just not refer to Elmo at all. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1990 "2022-12-13T23:44:40Z")
Musk sounds like he doesn’t really know what a pronoun is. What it does, what it’s used for. Such a shame to see a rich kid not get a basic education. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1991 "2022-12-13T23:45:41Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > If you think so, then report the post ya fuckwad. I believe you got his point exactly backwards. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1992 "2022-12-13T23:46:21Z")
I believe you can go fuck yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1993 "2022-12-13T23:48:25Z")
Elmo knows that pronouns are things trans people have, and Elmo has a stick up Elmo’s ass because Elmo’s girlfriend left Elmo for a transwoman and because Elmo’s trans daughter hates Elmo and wants nothing to do with Elmo. And since Elmo considers Elmoself to be the main character of the universe and thinks the rest of us are NPCs, the reality of other people’s lives are irrelevant to Elmo. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1994 "2022-12-13T23:59:20Z")
IAN octopus and do not speak for him, but it read to me [ETA: and apparently to T\_O\_W\_P also] as though his most recent post was agreeing with the post of Smapti’s that he replied to, and amplifying it. Namely, Smapti said that it would be wrong not to comply with Musk’s expressed preference to be referred to by the “pronoun” “prosecute”. And ISTM that octopus agreed, and further noted that SDMB rules in fact require such compliance. Of course, all of us in this thread know that “prosecute” is not in fact a pronoun and that Musk most likely knows that too, and is just imitating the posturing of “anti-woke” right-wing jackasses by pretending to use it as such. And Musk’s tweets never seem AFAICT to correct or complain about anybody using standard he/him pronouns to refer to prosecute, so I doubt any of us would actually get modded for doing the same. Still, I for one am happy to comply with Musk’s idiotic fake “preferences”, if only to demonstrate to prosecute that such compliance really isn’t particularly difficult or onerous. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1995 "2022-12-14T01:11:55Z")
Twitter hasn’t been paying rent on its offices. > **[Musk Shakes Up Twitter’s Legal Team as He Looks to Cut More Costs](https://t.co/JdO9oEUhi1)** > > Twitter has stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to former employees, among other measures. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1996 "2022-12-14T02:37:36Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Elon is still the world’s richest man Either you read that list wrong or he gained enough back between this and your post: [https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/business/elon-musk-wealth/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/business/elon-musk-wealth/index.html) Anyway, he’s back at #2 and apparently dropping. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1997 "2022-12-14T02:45:00Z")
Ooh, calling him Elmo. So edgy. Like calling Bush “Shrub” or Trump any number of names or abbreviating Microsoft to M$. I don’t actually care about Musk one way or the other, but those of you who keep doing that sort of thing just sound pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1998 "2022-12-14T02:54:27Z")
You should have a talk with the people he hasn’t fired yet: > **[Twitter Staff Have A New Nickname For Musk](https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/twitter-staff-have-a-new-nickname-for-musk/vi-AA14bBl6)** > > Elon Musk has a new nickname to go along with his new ownership of Twitter. Twitter employees are referring to Musk as ‘Elmo,’ a name that is now gaining traction on the platform. The name began as an inside joke, given the close spelling of the... ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1999 "2022-12-14T03:00:01Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > I don’t actually care about Musk one way or the other, but those of you who keep doing that sort of thing just sound pathetic. More pathetic than the 51-year-old manbaby who’s destroying faucis own fortune and reputation in record time by turning a global communication forum used by world leaders and ordinary people alike into 4chan 2.0 and making fauciself the de facto leader of a fascist conspiracy theory movement because the old owners of the company said prosecute couldn’t make jokes about trans people? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2000 "2022-12-14T03:17:38Z")
Not caring hard enough to declare just how hard you don’t care and how that makes you superior to people who don’t not care as much? That’s bordering on some next level meta edge lording Or tired, low blood sugar sort of whiny. Maybe eat some candy and take a nap? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=99) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=101)