# 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:** 101
**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, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2001 "2022-12-14T03:27:06Z")
Tesla’s shareholders are pissed at Elmo for ignoring faucis responsibilities while prosecute plays with faucis new toy. > **[Tesla Investors Furious at Elon Musk for Vanishing During Crisis to Play With...](https://futurism.com/tesla-investors-furious-elon-musk-crisis)** > > Tesla share are on yet another nosedive this week — and investors are getting increasingly furious at CEO Elon Musk for failing to actually run the company. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2002 "2022-12-14T03:45:47Z")
I’m sure if I look hard enough I’ll find the posts where you’re as upset by the right accusing anyone they don’t like of being child sexual predators. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2003 "2022-12-14T03:49:07Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The Trust and Safety Council has disbanded. That makes it sound like they self-disbanded. In fact this was Elmo’s doing, although several of the members had resigned last week in protest over Elmo’s reckless policies, writing that “contrary to claims by Elon Musk, the safety and wellbeing of Twitter’s users are on the decline.” Twitter has now removed the page that described the Council as “… made up of external expert organizations that advised on issues including online safety, human and digital rights, suicide prevention, mental health, child sexual exploitation, and dehumanization.” Elmo disbanded the council just hours before a scheduled meeting with Twitter executives. I guess one way to deal with a committee that’s about to tell you things you don’t want to hear is to disband them. > **[Twitter disbands its ‘Trust and Safety Council’ that tackled harassment and...](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitter-disbands-trust-and-safety-council/index.html)** > > Twitter announced late Monday that it was disbanding its “Trust and Safety Council,” according to an email the company sent to the council’s members that was obtained by CNN. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2004 "2022-12-14T03:53:22Z")
If I had a deposit on a Tesla at the moment, I’d be getting my money back, pronto. His obsession with Twitter is going to drive his main business into the ground. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2005 "2022-12-14T04:06:56Z")
But that might help his other other business! ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2006 "2022-12-14T04:19:33Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Elmo disbanded the council just hours before a scheduled meeting with Twitter executives. I guess one way to deal with a committee that’s about to tell you things you don’t want to hear is to disband them. Or, to put it in Dr. Evil terms, “I had the group liquidated, you little shit. They were insolent!” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zovylDylvSA/maxresdefault.jpg "I Had The Group Liquidated - Scene from Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zovylDylvSA) ---
**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, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2007 "2022-12-14T04:32:11Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Or, to put it in Dr. Evil terms, “I had the group liquidated, you little shit. They were insolent!” I’m now imagining Robert Wagner trying to explain to Elmo that Tesla brings in a lot more money than Twitter ever has or ever will. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2008 "2022-12-14T04:56:39Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > those of you who keep doing that sort of thing just sound pathetic. If the use of silly nicknames for despised public figures is primarily what strikes you as “pathetic” in political discourse these days, you may have some odd priorities. Either that, or you just can’t find anything more substantive to complain about in the current contemptuous criticism of public figures like Musk or Trump or Bush, so you’re reduced to grousing about the undignified name-calling. Personally, what I find most pathetic is the inability of so many people to develop even a reasonably accurate perception of reality. If only more right-wingers could manage to tell the difference between facts and paranoid fantasy regarding, say, Democrats like Biden and Hillary Clinton, they could go on calling those Democrats “Brandon” and “Hitlery” or any similar name that amuses them until they’re blue in the face, for all I care. ---
**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, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2009 "2022-12-14T06:21:37Z")
> **[Elon Musk Receives Experimental Neuralink Implant In Attempt To Delete Memory...](https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-receives-experimental-neuralink-implant-in-at-1849888767)** > > SAN FRANCISCO—Following a traumatizing incident on stage at a recent Dave Chappelle show, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk reportedly underwent surgery Tuesday to receive an experimental Neuralink brain implant, an attempt to delete the painful memory of... ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2010 "2022-12-14T13:24:22Z")
In light of that amusing little hissy fit upthread, Elmo it is. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2011 "2022-12-14T13:30:48Z")
Elmo is disturbingly similar to Trump: thin-skinned, spoiled, needy, petulant, insecure, petty etc… Classic momma’s boy. Children of the rich are the worst. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2012 "2022-12-14T13:52:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Twitter hasn’t been paying rent on its offices. So where are his hardcore employees supposed to sleep now? The sidewalk? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2013 "2022-12-14T14:02:16Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Tesla’s shareholders are pissed at Elmo for ignoring faucis responsibilities while prosecute plays with faucis new toy. Seeing as how it’s evidently possible to run three companies and still have time to troll on the internet all day, it seems that the whole “CEO” gig is nowhere _near_ as difficult as we’d been led to believe by the explanations why it is right and proper that a CEO’s paycheck has three or four zeroes tacked on to the end compared to a working stiff’s paycheck… ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2014 "2022-12-14T14:08:08Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > So where are his hardcore employees supposed to sleep now? The sidewalk? He doesn’t pay them to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2015 "2022-12-14T14:49:47Z")
> **[Twitter suspends account dedicated to tracking Elon Musk's private jet](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/14/twitter-suspends-elonjet-account-that-tracks-elon-musks-private-jet-.html)** > > The Twitter account used to track billionaire Elon Musk's private jet was suspended as of Wednesday morning. The account that tracks Elon musk’s jet has been mysteriously suspended, while other similar accounts are still active. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2016 "2022-12-14T14:55:07Z")
I’m surprised it took this long. That whole scuffle was a real thumb in Elon’s eye, and the kid came out of it looking like David shrugging off Goliath’s temper tantrum. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2017 "2022-12-14T14:58:58Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > 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. Ah! The “I don’t care about this topic, but the rest of you are doing it wrong” post. A thoroughly unpathetic drive by effort. We applaud you! Now back to bashing Elmo Mush! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2018 "2022-12-14T15:20:12Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Elmo is disturbingly similar to Trump: thin-skinned, spoiled, needy, petulant, insecure, petty etc… Classic momma’s boy. What’s disturbing is that the American right-wing that has been groomed for years into wanting fascism keeps latching onto these petulant menchildren while seeing them as strong alpha male types. Or perhaps that delusion is what will eventually save American democracy… ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2019 "2022-12-14T15:31:59Z")
There’s an interesting article in Vox that puts forward a theory of why Musk might want to fire 75% of the employees of Twitter and hope that everything still works: [How a 1941 book explains Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover - Vox](https://www.vox.com/23505311/elon-musk-twitter-managerial-woke-james-burnham) > If power is increasingly moving away from capitalists and toward the managers they employ, then it’s totally coherent for even the wealthiest people in the country to see themselves as victims of a “woke mind virus” infecting middle and upper management. This is how you get the odd spectacle of people like Musk deploring alleged censorship perpetrated by their own companies: They see their staff not as subordinates whose conduct is an internal company matter, but as rivals in the struggle for power who must be defeated. I recommend giving it a read to anyone who’s interested ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2020 "2022-12-14T17:26:56Z")
I won’t stand for you insulting former President Trump - who’s famous for childish nicknames. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=100) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=102)