# 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:** 492
**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:** [July 14, 2024, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9856 "2024-07-14T00:04:29Z")
[snort] Well done. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2024, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9857 "2024-07-14T03:32:50Z")
[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSVMnXpWYAACCM6?format=png&name=900x900) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSVMnXpWYAACCM6?format=png&name=900x900) ---
**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:** [July 17, 2024, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9858 "2024-07-17T05:31:52Z")
Elmo is moving his companies out of California because the state isn’t requiring schools to out trans kids to bigoted parents. > [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/aE_sYNVgS-M/maxresdefault.jpg "Willy Wonka - Stop, Don't, Come Back (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE_sYNVgS-M) ---
**Author:** ![kk\_fusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kk_fusion/32/15276_2.png) [@kk\_fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kk_fusion)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9859 "2024-07-17T07:57:55Z")
Cheese is slipping off. He’ll go the way of Steve Jobs shortly. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2024, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9860 "2024-07-17T11:40:10Z")
Anti-Steve Jobs, the cancer slowly dying because it has terminal Elon Musk. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2024, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9861 "2024-07-17T13:05:04Z")
It seems as though Apartheid Elmo is intent on alienating at least half of the buying public. His ‘genius’ knows no bounds. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9862 "2024-07-17T16:57:15Z")
So, for his company town, will he build his own power plant? And hurricane shelters? ---
**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:** [July 17, 2024, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9863 "2024-07-17T17:59:52Z")
I don’t think Mars has hurricanes. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9864 "2024-07-17T18:29:08Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > So, for his company town, will he build his own power plant? And hurricane shelters? Possibly yes to the former (while ignoring environmental and safety standards, of course. Or any standards of decency). The latter? Maybe for himself. For his employees? Ha! Part of the reason for the move to Texas was the relative ease with which the state allows him to treat his employees like garbage. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2024, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9865 "2024-07-18T08:05:48Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I don’t think Mars has hurricanes. It gets the occasional dust storm with winds over 60mph, but that’s about it. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2024, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9866 "2024-07-18T10:39:29Z")
Given the very low atmospheric pressure on Mars, even in the lowlands, that 60mph wind doesn’t carry much oomph behind it. Like an almost imperceptible breeze on Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9867 "2024-07-18T11:26:57Z")
Not enough to topple a rocket, which was the one major bit of creative license in _The Martian_, as I understand. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9868 "2024-07-23T02:36:15Z")
Elmo has vowed to destroy the woke mind virus. > **[‘Killed by the woke mind virus’: Elon Musk bashed for saying his trans kid...](https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-2668792813/)** > > Elon Musk is getting slammed on his social media app after saying his own child is “dead” to him after coming out as trans.In a conversation with conservative psychologist Jordan Peterson on Monday, Musk described being “tricked” into signing... (The vow is at the end of the clip.) ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9869 "2024-07-23T03:27:39Z")
> [@](#): > > “I lost my son essentially. They call it dead-naming for a reason. The reason it’s called dead naming is because your son is dead,” Musk said. “So my son, Xavier, is dead. Killed by the woke mind virus.” How is it that a man with 12 children is so fucking _terrible_ at being a dad? ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9870 "2024-07-23T03:40:47Z")
I don’t think volume is the key to good parenting. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9871 "2024-07-23T03:55:29Z")
I mean, I decided when I was a teenager that I never wanted to have kids because my dad was a terrible father and with my upbringing I didn’t think I could be the kind of father a child deserves, and the best thing for me to do was break the cycle by not participating. And here’s this asshole pumping them out left and right like he needs a genetically compatible kidney donor and he seems to be indifferent to them at best and actively hostile to them at worst. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSnVBA2WgAApkOT.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSnVBA2WgAApkOT.jpg) ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9872 "2024-07-23T04:41:13Z")
“Statistically speaking, I should be able to do well with **one** of my kids.” ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9873 "2024-07-23T05:02:25Z")
> [@FluffyBob](#): > > I don’t think volume is the key to good parenting. Many even consider it negatively correlated as the number of former partners/mothers of those children goes up ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9874 "2024-07-23T09:46:53Z")
They’ll all be fighting over his money someday. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9875 "2024-07-23T10:19:47Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > And here’s this asshole pumping them out left and right like he needs a genetically compatible kidney donor and he seems to be indifferent to them at best and actively hostile to them at worst. Of course he is. They are lifestyle accessories, not children to be nurtured and loved. It’s all about him, not them. And in another thread of ElmoThink, they are the start of the Master Race. I’m actually a bit surprised he’s not going full Charlemagne. Yet. IOW, trying to leave 500 direct offspring and predominantly male intending to ~~conquer~~ pollute the human gene pool forever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=491) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=493)