# 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:** 97
**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:** [December 6, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1921 "2022-12-06T16:46:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Or maybe - hear me out - there’s a _slight_ chance that the rich white kid who grew up in '70s South Africa and whose father owned an emerald mine powered by apartheid slave labor might be _just a wee bit racist_. That rich white kid might, but obviously you’re not referring to Musk here. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1922 "2022-12-06T18:45:38Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > We should be doing everything possible to encourage Noah Musk to leave Earth and settle on Mars. He could probably round up a volunteer harem and populate the joint. Bon voyage, little man, bon voyage. And may you [Musk, that is] be greeted upon arrival by a herd of Bronterocs. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1923 "2022-12-07T00:19:02Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > We should be doing everything possible to encourage Noah Musk to leave Earth and settle on Mars. Right. The “B” Ark. (“B” stands for “best and brightest”, Elon. Really. And I promise you’ll have the best-sanitized telephones in the Solar System.) ---
**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:** [December 7, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1924 "2022-12-07T00:27:46Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > We should be doing everything possible to encourage Noah Musk to leave Earth and settle on Mars. He could probably round up a volunteer harem and populate the joint. Bon voyage, little man, bon voyage. If they can put one conservative asshat on Mars, why not all of them? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1925 "2022-12-07T00:43:26Z")
Not enough lift capacity yet. There are a _buttload_ of asshats out there! ---
**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:** [December 7, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1926 "2022-12-07T03:00:12Z")
Maybe if we got them to leave the hats behind we’d have more weight capacity for the asses. ---
**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:** [December 7, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1927 "2022-12-07T03:00:51Z")
Elon has decided to branch out into the slumlord business; > ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1928 "2022-12-07T14:49:29Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Right. The “B” Ark. > > (“B” stands for “best and brightest”, Elon. Really. And I promise you’ll have the best-sanitized telephones in the Solar System.) I don’t know that that’s the best analogy to use, based on what happened to the Golgafrinchams who stayed behind. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1929 "2022-12-07T14:51:14Z")
Elon Musk is the walking incarnation of “screw the rules, I have money!” > **[Screw the Rules, I Have Money! - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney)** > > Let's face it: life sucks, especially when you don't have much money to your name. This goes double in the world of fiction, where those that have money always try to find ways to make things miserable for those who don't. Such things as The … ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1930 "2022-12-07T14:54:24Z")
I’m willing to risk it. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1931 "2022-12-07T15:05:08Z")
Fair enough, we don’t really share telephones anymore. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1932 "2022-12-07T17:53:33Z")
Elon Musk is what you get when there’s the ghost of an emo teenager who died in 1986 and the ghost of a Gilded Age robber baron from 1896 and they both try to possess the same body. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2022, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1933 "2022-12-09T07:21:03Z")
Elon is no longer the world’s richest man, having lost nearly half his fortune this year. > **[Collector Bernard Arnault Surpasses Elon Musk to Become Richest Person in the...](https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bernard-arnault-elon-musk-forbes-richest-people-list-1234649662/?fbclid=IwAR3xmZr2xDxYoZjRsHF8tAV7B9Mdwz_K6WNAZeLwnzNPQOZYdMHUB5oHEKQ)** > > Musk has slid to the second-place slot. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1934 "2022-12-09T17:21:49Z")
Elon is still the world’s richest man, and did not lose anything like half his fortune this year. He’s up 5.2 billion in the latest Forbes live tracker. > **[Real Time Billionaires](https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#4541ee363d78)** > > Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires rankings tracks the daily ups and downs of the world’s richest people. The wealth-tracking platform provides ongoing updates on the net worth and ranking of each individual confirmed by Forbes to be a billionaire. Musk’s high point that I saw was $228 billion. According to the Forbes live net worth tracker, he’s currently at 190.1 billion, and Bernard Arnault is at 187.3 billion. And aside from Arnault, the next closest is at $137 billion. Musk could lose his entire Twitter stake and still be the second richest man in the world. I don’t think he’s losing sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1935 "2022-12-09T17:38:04Z")
He lost half his fortune and is STILL the _second_ wealthiest man in the world? I’m not going to lose any sleep over it. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1936 "2022-12-10T10:31:11Z")
I swear to God these “Twitter Files” are as lame and as boring as watching certain people here flame the mods, and about as relevant. It’s the “Release the Memo!” of content moderation, and not nearly as thorough. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1937 "2022-12-10T10:39:05Z")
But i find myself intrigued by this second-richest, or possibly richest, men whom I’ve never heard of, who is a “collector”. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1938 "2022-12-10T12:33:05Z")
Applause! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1939 "2022-12-10T13:48:23Z")
It’s the Snyder cut of news events. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1940 "2022-12-10T13:51:46Z")
More like the Snyder circumcision. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=96) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=98)