# 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:** 387
**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:** [November 18, 2023, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7726 "2023-11-18T00:14:10Z")
[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_LEyeHXMAA_TFm?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_LEyeHXMAA_TFm?format=jpg&name=medium) Inb4 Elmo bans the ADL for “genocide against whites”. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7727 "2023-11-18T01:36:09Z")
So much for free speech. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7728 "2023-11-18T01:37:49Z")
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**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:** [November 18, 2023, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7729 "2023-11-18T02:49:03Z")
Sounds like Elmo needs to ban himself. I bet 10,000 qautloos against the proposed proposition. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2023, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7730 "2023-11-18T06:03:15Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Sounds like Elmo needs to ban himself. If necessary, he will, since Elmo is a man of his word and a man of principle. For instance, he said he would step down as Chief Twit when a poll of Twitter users showed most of them wanted him to go. So he did. Linda Yaccarino now totally runs the show, and Elmo is back at Tesla and no longer has anything to do with Twitter/X. Ha ha! That was bitter sarcasm! Linda Yaccarino is probably now well on the way to chronic alcoholism, wondering what on earth could have possessed her to link her professional life with this mental five-year-old manic obsessive micromanager harboring several generational lifetimes of pent-up racial hatred. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2023, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7731 "2023-11-18T09:05:36Z")
The K must be kicking in, because Elmo’s in his I-am-invincible mode. “I’M GONNA SUE THE ENTIRE MEDIA FOR TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE NAZIS ON MY WEBSITE!” [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_M_UyBXcAAUnVk?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_M_UyBXcAAUnVk?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7732 "2023-11-18T09:40:52Z")
Christ. Whatever type of intelligence he may or may not arguably have previously displayed, it’s clearly been buried and burned away by all the drug use. This is full-on megalomaniac dissociation. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7733 "2023-11-18T12:53:07Z")
I told you it was just further proof of the Jews conspiring to destroy the value of his company. Now Elmo is going to fight back against “their board, their donors, _their network of dark money_”… huh, it’s almost like a secret cabal of the rich controlling things from the shadows sounds like a familiar trope, I can’t quite place my finger on it… Oh yeah, and mandatory comment pointing out the irony of the richest boy in the world talking about a network of dark money. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2023, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7734 "2023-11-18T13:11:56Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > pointing out the irony of the richest boy in the world talking about a network of dark money. Until Elmo has _all_ the money, everybody else still has too much for his tastes. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2023, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7735 "2023-11-18T13:39:16Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > I told you it was just further proof of the Jews conspiring to destroy the value of his company. Now Elmo is going to fight back against “their board, their donors, _their network of dark money_”… huh, it’s almost like a secret cabal of the rich controlling things from the shadows sounds like a familiar trope, I can’t quite place my finger on it… Good, I’m not the only one that heard that dog ~~whistle~~ foghorn. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7736 "2023-11-18T13:51:36Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > I’m not the only one that heard that dog ~~whistle~~ foghorn. what we need is an Endlösung. It really isn’t funny any more. I thought that kind of thing would never come back. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7737 "2023-11-18T16:47:08Z")
> [@Mikkel](#): > > It really isn’t funny any more. I thought that kind of thing would never come back. I don’t think it ever really went away. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7738 "2023-11-18T17:35:01Z")
I’m sure that you have followed it a lot closer and globally, but not so many years ago, racism and especially antisemitism was dirty words and illegal here. At least it went underground. That doesn’t mean that one can’t criticize Israel, but those Nazi theories brought forward in public by well respected (sort of) people is something different and, I think, worse. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7739 "2023-11-18T17:54:05Z")
He’s disturbingly trump-like. I now fully support the ‘natural born citizen’ clause. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7740 "2023-11-18T18:18:04Z")
Stand with X to protect MY free speech. That’s what he’s really saying. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7741 "2023-11-18T18:26:49Z")
More precisely: Stand with X to own the libs ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7742 "2023-11-18T20:48:39Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Good, I’m not the only one that heard that dog ~~whistle~~ foghorn. I propose a new term, a doghorn. It’s when a dog whistle is so obvious it might as well be a foghorn. Inspired by your insightful comment of course. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7743 "2023-11-18T21:16:42Z")
Which might, just might, be an example of an eggcorn. I like it. Not that you eggcorned, but that others hearing “doghorn” will eggcorn it. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2023, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7744 "2023-11-19T02:13:45Z")
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**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:** [November 19, 2023, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7745 "2023-11-19T02:18:52Z")
It would be funny if X turned into what twuth social had hoped to become: An unrivaled hive of scum and villainy. And scams. Lots and lots of scams. Plus ads for buying gold (and ammo) against the impending apocalypse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=386) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=388)