# 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:** 395
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7886 "2023-11-30T02:01:49Z")
“What began as an apology over antisemitic tweets turned into a meandering conversation about childhood trauma, aliens, cellphones in people’s heads and using X in the bathroom. A good portion of the room walked out before the discussion officially wrapped.” [https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/29/investing/elon-musk-dealbook-summit/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/29/investing/elon-musk-dealbook-summit/index.html) Remember, Elon isn’t antisemitic. He’s _philosemitic_.\* \*I had never heard that term before. At first I thought it meant that Elon likes to collect postage stamps depicting [famous Jews](https://www.ebay.com/itm/293697565668). ---
**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:** [November 30, 2023, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7887 "2023-11-30T02:07:51Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Document which parties are to blame. Blame? That’s like documenting the fact that Jimmy Carter is to “blame” for the imminent extinction of the Guinea worm. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7888 "2023-11-30T02:18:07Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > > [@wguy123](#): > > > > I think he’s trying to say that if a company doesn’t advertise, it will die. > > No, he’s saying “this isn’t my fault. History will prove me right. These companies are all out to get me! You’ll see! You’ll all see! You’ll be so sad when I’m gone! And Disney will be sad too! You’ll all be so sad!” Losers are the new winners! ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7889 "2023-11-30T02:26:51Z")
Ehh, I don’t know if telling advertisers to go fuck themselves will have an appreciable effect on Twitter’s bottom line. They’ll only see the money they can still make there and will continue to do business; I don’t think the panic tipping point has been reached yet. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7890 "2023-11-30T02:28:55Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > No, he’s saying “this isn’t my fault. History will prove me right. These companies are all out to get me! You’ll see! You’ll all see! You’ll be so sad when I’m gone! And Disney will be sad too! You’ll all be so sad!” Glad you speak Musk as I don’t any longer. In my younger years I had a couple tweaker associates (started off as friends) and got fairly fluent but it’s been long enough that I’ve lost that language. Does Duolingo have a module so I can brush up like I do with Spanish? ---
**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 30, 2023, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7891 "2023-11-30T02:45:13Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > I look forward to Linda’s spin on this. “Here at X we believe self-love can take many forms. Our aggressive approach to pursuing ad revenue is generating record impressions, up 68.8% from last year, including…” “69%, you amateur!” “Yes, Lord Elon.” ---
**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 30, 2023, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7892 "2023-11-30T02:47:37Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Remember, Elon isn’t antisemitic. He’s _philosemitic_.\* Elmo is philosemitic in the same way Trump is - he believes Jews control the economy and world politics and are all very rich and powerful behind the scenes, and he admires them for it because he wishes he had that kind of sway. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7893 "2023-11-30T02:54:12Z")
But in that sort of pre-pubescent teenaged boy way. See, if he negs them hard enough, they’ll realize he’s the manly, masculine fella who they all secretly love but can’t/won’t say ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7894 "2023-11-30T03:13:28Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > good gnarly goddess For fun I typed this into Google, and it assumes you are referring to Medusa, with images like this: [![](https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.4928149759.6053/raf,360x360,075,t,fafafa:ca443f4786.jpg) ](https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.4928149759.6053/raf,360x360,075,t,fafafa:ca443f4786.jpg) I then got sidetracked trying to see what AI image generators would do, but none of them are really interesting enough to show. The only thing I’ll note is that none of them looked anything like Medusa. ---
**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 30, 2023, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7895 "2023-11-30T03:34:04Z")
Wait a minute. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAJGiDHXAAETT7T?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAJGiDHXAAETT7T?format=jpg&name=medium) He’s cosplaying Squall from Final Fantasy VIII. [![](https://static0.gamerantimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/final-fantasy-8-squall.jpg) ](https://static0.gamerantimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/final-fantasy-8-squall.jpg) The world’s richest man is high on uppers and screaming at his clients while dressed as an emo boy from a 25 year old video game. What a loser. ---
**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 30, 2023, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7896 "2023-11-30T04:58:00Z")
[https://twitter.com/Nash076/status/1730028625993306333](https://twitter.com/Nash076/status/1730028625993306333) "There’s a very specific audience who thinks saying “go fuck yourself” on national TV is a brilliant and wonderful thing to do. This is the same audience that isn’t allowed at Shoney’s anymore, and has addressed a judge in court as “bro” at least twice in their lives." ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7897 "2023-11-30T05:52:33Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Ehh, I don’t know if telling advertisers to go fuck themselves will have an appreciable effect on Twitter’s bottom line. They’ll only see the money they can still make there and will continue to do business; I don’t think the panic tipping point has been reached yet. Unfortunately (because really any normal company should expect to take an economic beating for unhinged remarks like that), I worry that you are correct. Awful lot of inertia baked into Xitter. I’ve given up on it, but I was only a very, very casual and occasional user at best. Losing folks like me do not damage the bottom line and the deeply invested seem to have a hard time migrating to alternatives. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2023, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7898 "2023-11-30T06:12:13Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I think he’s trying to say that if a company doesn’t advertise, it will die. Has he ever heard of a company named Tesla? Heh, guess what I saw my first YT ad for this very day? ---
**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 30, 2023, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7899 "2023-11-30T06:58:06Z")
Elmo: Go fuck yourself Disney, I don’t need your money Also Elmo: This looks good to me, keep it coming [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53365826978_1ae078a589_c.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53365826978_1ae078a589_c.jpg) ---
**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 30, 2023, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7900 "2023-11-30T08:37:39Z")
[https://twitter.com/Nash076/status/1730117239435559128](https://twitter.com/Nash076/status/1730117239435559128) > [@](#): > > So Elon’s tantrum got completely overshadowed by Kissingers’ death, which is like finding out orgasms can have their own orgasm. Dunno why tweets aren’t embedding all of a sudden. Maybe Elmo tripped over the power cable to that server and unplugged it while he was trying to impregnate a Blu-Ray drive. ---
**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 30, 2023, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7901 "2023-11-30T09:20:33Z")
He got all hot and bothered with Andrew Ross Sorkin when Andrew said “tweets” instead of “posts.” Somebody at twitter is gonna be in trouble. ---
**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 30, 2023, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7902 "2023-11-30T09:23:00Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > He got all hot and bothered with Andrew Ross Sorkin when Andrew said “tweets” instead of “posts.” > **[‘Stop calling it Twitter’ says guy who deadnames his own child](https://chaser.com.au/general-news/stop-calling-it-twitter-says-guy-who-deadnames-his-own-child/)** > > 'Why won't you just accept X for who it is?' ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7903 "2023-11-30T14:19:12Z")
One has to wonder how much longer this can go on. I’m not optimistic enough to think Twitter is going to fold but how much longer can shareholders, investors, etc., in his various companies allow this to continue? Agile Self-Inflected Wounds ---
**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:** [November 30, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7904 "2023-11-30T14:26:54Z")
Xitter is like the abusive girlfriend you can’t quit. No matter how much she trashes your shit, you keep coming back. Me? I never stick my dick in the crazy. Never had an account, don’t want one. Elmo doesn’t know I exist. But I like reading this thread. Schadenfreude. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7905 "2023-11-30T16:32:15Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > the deeply invested seem to have a hard time migrating to alternatives. Migration is hard because the alternatives aren’t as good. I’ve tried joining Mastodon, Blue Sky, Spoutible, and Post, and none of them work as well, or have the richness of content that Xitter still has – as long as one avoids the political stuff and mostly wallows in cats, dogs, and innocuous stuff like that. The few politically oriented tweeters I follow regularly get inundated with blue check crap, alas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=394) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=396)