# 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:** 81
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1601 "2022-11-27T01:08:14Z")
Thanks. \ Truly we’ve reach peak the peak of human civilization. ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1602 "2022-11-27T01:10:41Z")
You mean nadir? ---
**Author:** ![TheTooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@TheTooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTooth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1603 "2022-11-27T01:14:13Z")
The US has been going downhill since it mothballed the Apollo program and people started selling one another rocks as pets. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1604 "2022-11-27T03:22:38Z")
I tested positive for Covid this morning. I’m not feeling great, but my fever is just 100.2 and I don’t _think_ I’m imagining this Elon goat fire-farting statue. I’m hard pressed to find a better explanation, though. How on earth is that thing for real? I might just barely believe it if it was built by people having a laugh at Musk’s expense. But his FANS build it? Please tell me I’m being whooshed. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1605 "2022-11-27T03:34:57Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Please tell me I’m being whooshed. I can’t tell you that. But don’t be surprised if one of his fans comes along to explain why it’s a great thing, totally normal, and you’re just being a hater if you can’t see that. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1606 "2022-11-27T03:54:58Z")
I mean, whom of us has not been fêted with a giant goat-sphinx with our visage humping a rocket? It certainly beats the John Cusack hoisting a boombox blasting “In Your Eyes”, and besides, Peter Gabriel has a reputation for being extremely litigious when it comes to unauthorized use of his music to celebrate unmitigated stupidity. Stranger ---
**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:** [November 27, 2022, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1607 "2022-11-27T03:58:22Z")
He still has fans? Didn’t the complete fiasco that he’s made of the Twitter takeover cause all of his fans to wake up to his non-brilliance? (At this point, he’s competing with Kanye West to see who is crazier.) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1608 "2022-11-27T04:04:10Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > He still has fans? Several of them on this very board, from what I’ve seen in the various Musk/Twitter threads here in recent weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1609 "2022-11-27T04:27:33Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Several of them on this very board, from what I’ve seen in the various Musk/Twitter threads here in recent weeks. [Exhibit A](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-someone-with-no-business-acumen-get-to-be-the-richest-person-in-the-world/974903/263) Stranger ---
**Author:** ![nate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nate/32/13085_2.png) [@nate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nate)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1610 "2022-11-27T04:39:39Z")
Just because I called you out on not reading your own cites doesn’t make me a Musk fan. There are plenty of reasons to not like the guy without spreading mistruths. ---
**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 27, 2022, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1611 "2022-11-27T04:41:36Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > He still has fans? Didn’t the complete fiasco that he’s made of the Twitter takeover cause all of his fans to wake up to his non-brilliance? No more than happens with other cults of personality. People want to believe. ---
**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 27, 2022, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1612 "2022-11-27T05:15:41Z")
Irony is dead. > ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1613 "2022-11-27T07:54:57Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > No more than happens with other cults of personality. People want to believe. A cult of personality indeed: > **[Giant Musk ‘Goat’ statue arrives at Tesla factory in crypto stunt](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/26/elon-musk-cryptocurrency-goat-statue/)** > > Elon GOAT Token, a cryptocurrency company, commissioned the statue with the goal of billionaire Elon Musk accepting it and bringing exposure to its token > _Although for Elon GOAT Token “times have not been good,” co-founder Ashley Sansalone said Saturday in a Twitter audio stream, the company had earmarked enough money to complete the statue project._ > > _“We believe that Elon’s potential acceptance of this biblical sized gift could catapult $EGT into the limelight and accelerate its various initiatives,” the company said on its website._ Stranger ---
**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 27, 2022, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1614 "2022-11-27T11:57:39Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I’m hard pressed to find a better explanation, though. How on earth is that thing for real? I might just barely believe it if it was built by people having a laugh at Musk’s expense. But his FANS build it? Someone just read God Emperor of Dune and thought Leto II was supposed to be the good guy. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1615 "2022-11-27T12:09:48Z")
As I have mentioned here before, I sometimes lurk and read the Breitbart comments. And let me tell you, that place is still as FULL ELON as ever. Anything said that’s negative about Elon is taken as a personal attack. ---
**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 27, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1616 "2022-11-27T12:19:15Z")
I used to think that psychopaths were the most dangerous breed of humanity. I’ve now concluded it’s instead the worship-the-strongman types we should be most worried about. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1617 "2022-11-27T12:23:04Z")
No, but your many posts praising and defending Musk certainly suggest you are a Musk fan. Especially when you reply to posts seemingly completely unaware of Musk’s numerous failings (beyond the personal, which are legion). ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1618 "2022-11-27T13:45:28Z")
As Pterry said, the gretest design flaw in humanity is the tendency to bend at the knees. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1619 "2022-11-27T14:04:12Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Irony is dead. This was a doctored screenshot; Musk did not reply to “@superhitler1488” (as can be seen by reading the thread you linked as a cite - the explanation is German but the original screenshot is provided). Here is a [direct link](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596083744728928257) to the original. There are lots of fakes floating around right now. It’s important to get this right, because right-wing chuds love nothing more than seeing their opponents fall for obvious hoaxes. The embarrassment is obviously part of that, but it also serves their larger goal of undermining the idea of truth itself. ---
**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 27, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1620 "2022-11-27T14:05:56Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > There are lots of fakes floating around right now. How can they possibly be a fake if they paid him $8? He gets to KEEP that if he bans them, you know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=80) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=82)