# 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:** 114
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2262 "2022-12-19T18:37:37Z")
Kyle Rittenhouse tweeted that the Yes voters were bots, and the real majority was the No. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2263 "2022-12-19T18:40:07Z")
ahh - trumpian logic. ---
**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 19, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2264 "2022-12-19T18:47:55Z")
Let’s see what Elmo does now. I mean, it will be whatever he always intended to do, but I’m curious how he handles it. BTW, Elmo is currently halfway across the Atlantic coming back from Dubai, altitude 41,000 ft, heading 290.2. I imagine we’ll be hearing from him soon. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2265 "2022-12-19T19:10:57Z")
I guess when you’re a multibillionaire, the rules don’t apply to you. There are photos of Elmo drinking wine at the World Cup finals. > **[r/WhitePeopleTwitter - No alcohol allowed in the stadium (unless you're rich,...](https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/zprao4/no_alcohol_allowed_in_the_stadium_unless_youre/)** > > 47,434 votes and 2,025 comments so far on Reddit ---
**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 19, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2266 "2022-12-19T19:36:17Z")
What makes you think most of the voters were his devoted followers? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.e/32/8932_2.png) [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2267 "2022-12-19T20:17:42Z")
I voted for him to step down, but what I really wanted to do was vote for him to log off. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2268 "2022-12-19T20:24:00Z")
As a holder of a decent chunk of Tesla stock, I’d be fine if he stepped down from that one, too. SpaceX can have him. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2269 "2022-12-19T20:37:44Z")
I hope he doesn’t step down. Watching him self destruct Twitter and his fortune is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2270 "2022-12-19T21:45:54Z")
It’s the supporters that are the ones to watch. Reading comments by condescending fans that find it “amusing” that the commoners think they can understand Musk’s next-level moves, it’s clear many believe the moral of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is that someone should have strangled that little brat that said he was naked. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2271 "2022-12-19T22:04:00Z")
> [@epbrown](#): > > it’s clear many believe the moral of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is that someone should have strangled that little brat that said he was naked. HA! A long time ago, that was author David Gerrold’s take on the fable (except he just suggested giving the kid a cookie, not killing him, But still!) I thought he interpreted it as a fable of understanding wonderment (basically, in support of Scifi). I don’t think I got it until now, Except, that makes Gerrold a “fanboy” of fake leaders. Oh well - I never liked his writing anyway. ---
**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 19, 2022, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2272 "2022-12-19T22:53:10Z")
> ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2273 "2022-12-19T23:28:33Z")
Efforts are underway to rename this the Musk Effect. > **[Streisand effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect)** > > The Streisand effect is the way attempts to hide, remove, or censor information can lead to the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of that information. It is named after American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project's photograph of her cliff-top residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew greater attention to the photograph in 2003. > Attempts to suppress information... ---
**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 19, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2274 "2022-12-19T23:33:26Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Musk Effect. Should be a subvariant of the Streisand effect where what you are trying to hide stinks to high heaven. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2275 "2022-12-19T23:34:50Z")
You can say it has a… musk. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2276 "2022-12-19T23:36:10Z")
r/thatsthejoke ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2277 "2022-12-19T23:46:31Z")
🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2278 "2022-12-19T23:47:43Z")
Remember, the elonjet thing can only track the plane; not where he actually is. So when it says “in the last 24 hours he flew from San Jose to the UK then from the UK to Qatar”, it _may_ be that the plane flew those routes without him on it. ---
**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 20, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2279 "2022-12-20T00:14:16Z")
Oh hey, there must be bots in the poll, we should only let people who bought blue checks vote. > Dave Itzkoff always finds the right Simpsons shot. > ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2280 "2022-12-20T00:24:23Z")
Ken Klip also had a good response: [https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1604995735912476672?t=ULo2K8fXpvHxoUFT2g9opw&s=19](https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1604995735912476672?t=ULo2K8fXpvHxoUFT2g9opw&s=19) ---
**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 20, 2022, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2281 "2022-12-20T01:57:37Z")
I see from the tracking info that Elmo is back from Qatar, and just landed about half an hour ago. Interestingly, he went to Austin, not California. It’s almost as if he’s losing interest in Twitter and is back to focusing on Tesla and SpaceX, but who knows why he’s in Austin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=113) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=115)