# 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:** 347
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2023, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6926 "2023-10-01T04:06:41Z")
The hat is on right. It’s his face that is wrong. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2023, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6927 "2023-10-01T04:10:04Z")
👏 👏 👏 ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2023, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6928 "2023-10-01T04:10:58Z")
I used to show my horse 4h western. We had to dress western i.e. cowboy hats etc. I have never seen a hat with the low part of the crown in the front. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist. I also dated a guy in a country band and sang at country jams (I know but whatever) anyway, he always wore a stetson. In my not expert opinion he is not wearing it incorrectly. Why on earth would he move the band around? Also, the bands are usually sewn to the hat so turning it around would be difficult to say the least. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2023, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6929 "2023-10-01T04:15:15Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > Why on earth would he move the band around? Because he’s a poser? ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2023, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6930 "2023-10-01T04:23:12Z")
That makes no sense to me. If he’s a poser he would want to wear the hat correctly. As he is. Moving the band would make it “backwards” thus making him not a “real cowboy” or whatever it is he’s going for. As I said: moving the band would take some scissors and forethought. As far as I can see the hat is correct and I don’t see why everyone is so concerned by it. There are so many more things to criticize this guy for. Also note, the narrow point of the crown is most often if not always forward. I don’t know why this is bothering me, but his hat wearing is not the thing that is negative about him. Yes, he’s a phony. He’s never been seen in western hat and boots before to my knowledge. He’s in Texas trying to be all macho so presto he’s suddenly decked “Texan”. The way the hat is worn is not really the issue here. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2023, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6931 "2023-10-01T04:37:07Z")
He really does have just a terrible left profile, doesn’t he? ---
**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:** [October 1, 2023, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6932 "2023-10-01T04:43:04Z")
The right’s no spring picnic either. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2023, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6933 "2023-10-01T04:57:28Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Because he’s a poser? I only follow Elmo news in this thread. Not knowing the context, he looks so much like a poser that I didn’t realize that the picture was of him just by looking at it. Honestly, even knowing that its him it doesn’t look like him. He looks ridiculous, the proto-beard scruff looks particularly ridiculous on him. It’s like he’s cosplaying a cowboy, badly. Hmm, almost like he looked like a bad cosplay of Ironman in his leather getup. I guess this is what happens when you’ve been a wealthy, spoiled, narcissistic man-child ever since you were an actual child. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6934 "2023-10-02T00:55:59Z")
Goddam, now he’s going after Zelensky: > I don’t ever recall seeing him going after Russia or Putin. Musk is one of the biggest pieces of shit on Earth. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6935 "2023-10-02T01:01:50Z")
With a simple Google search, I was able to find an article that says that Tesla has received about $500 million in federal loans, and SpaceX an additional $100 million, since 2010. So shut the fuck up, Elon. [https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/07/cage-fight-elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-money-in-politics/#:~:text=Musk's%20companies%20also%20frequently%20use,%24274%2C477%20came%20from%20federal%20grants](https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/07/cage-fight-elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-money-in-politics/#:~:text=Musk%27s%20companies%20also%20frequently%20use,%24274%2C477%20came%20from%20federal%20grants). ---
**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:** [October 2, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6936 "2023-10-02T01:01:56Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Musk is one of the biggest pieces of shit on Earth. “One of”? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6937 "2023-10-02T01:02:31Z")
Huh, and here I thought he was the man of infinite philanthropy with all of he’s ‘contributed’ (read: made truckloads of cash off of) to Ukraine with Skylink. Why, he was even kind enough to prevent them from unleashing a nuclear holocaust upon the world by launching a naval drone attack _on their own occupied sovereign territory_. Why is he mocking the people he’s contributed so much to? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6938 "2023-10-02T01:06:48Z")
Am I the only one who thinks the hat looks backward or otherwise wrong on him is because he just looks so ridiculous in it? [Obama](https://www.jeffvandermeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/barack-obama-cowboy-hat.jpg) could put on a Western hat and look badass good; Musk looks as if he’s got a hat that’s one size too small perched on his head. And yes, the chin scruff looks ludicrous. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6939 "2023-10-02T01:18:13Z")
Among the good things and bad things about being super rich: Good thing: no one is going to tell you to your bescruffed face topped with a stupid cowboy hat that you look ridiculous. Bad thing: you will continue to look ridiculous. Much smirking will occur. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6940 "2023-10-02T01:35:40Z")
You may recall the “peace plan” he proposed last year which boiled down to “Ukraine gives Russia everything it wants and in return they pinky-swear not to do it again”. > **[Elon Musk's peace plan for Ukraine draws condemnation from Zelenskyy](https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/1126714896/elon-musk-ukraine-peace-plan-zelenskyy)** > > The Tesla CEO tweeted a plan that includes allowing Russia to keep Crimea, which it seized in 2014. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded that Musk was taking sides with Russia. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6941 "2023-10-02T02:01:33Z")
Hey, Elmo is in good company with Zelensky’s view on his peace plan. [https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/politics/zelensky-ukraine-russia-congress-trump-cnntv/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/politics/zelensky-ukraine-russia-congress-trump-cnntv/index.html) > “He can publicly share his idea now, not waste time, not to lose people, and say, ‘My formula is to stop the war and stop all this tragedy and stop Russian aggression,’” Zelensky told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, following [his speech Tuesday](https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/europe/zelensky-unga-2023-intl-latam/index.html)at the United Nations General Assembly. “And he said, how he sees it, how to push Russian from our land. Otherwise, he’s not presenting the global idea of peace.” > > The Ukrainian president added: “So (if) the idea is how to take the part of our territory and to give Putin, that is not the peace formula.” > > Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has claimed that he would be able to cut a deal with Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. Pressed Sunday on [NBC’s “Meet the Press”](https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/transcripts/full-transcript-read-meet-the-press-kristen-welker-interview-trump-rcna104778) about whether the deal would let Putin keep the land he’s taken, Trump said, “No, no. I’d make a fair deal for everybody. Nope, I’d make it fair.” ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6942 "2023-10-02T02:32:41Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > Why is he mocking the people he’s contributed so much to? Because he’s owning the libs. That’s why the sci-fi nerds love him. He doesn’t care beyond that. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6943 "2023-10-02T02:38:08Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > Because he’s owning the libs. That’s why the sci-fi nerds love him. He doesn’t care beyond that. Hey! There are plenty of sci fi nerds ( ✋ ) who loathe his rat-like, vacuous, pompous visage the way they hate a cancerous infected boil upon their own countenance. Perhaps more! Because I could have such a cancer removed and be done with it forever, to the betterment of my mental and physical health. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6944 "2023-10-02T03:56:24Z")
Agreed! sci fi nerds unite. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6945 "2023-10-02T04:23:55Z")
Yeah, I think the tangent the thread took over one small Warhammer 40k reference bringing the sci fi nerds out of the woodworks shows Elmo isn’t particularly favored by that community. Then again, the normies probably had no idea what was going on. 😉 If anything, I’d say he’s more in favor with the crypto-bro crowd. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=346) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=348)