# 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:** 98
**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 11, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1941 "2022-12-11T00:47:29Z")
Elmo is now accusing his former employees of being pedophiles based on out-of-context quotes from 10 years ago cited to him by QAnon stooges. > ---
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1942 "2022-12-11T01:01:53Z")
Welp, there’s another expensive libel/defamation lawsuit. And he kindly supplied the evidence himself. What the hell ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1943 "2022-12-11T01:29:08Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > 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. They’re not going to be boring to the ex-Twitter employees Musk is claiming supported child porn. The Trumpists and Qanon nuts are already frothing at the mouth. ---
**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 11, 2022, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1944 "2022-12-11T01:51:51Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > They’re not going to be boring to the ex-Twitter employees Musk is claiming supported child porn. To be fair, I hope, I did type the above before Elon’s pedo tweet. ---
**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 11, 2022, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1945 "2022-12-11T05:39:32Z")
Elmo’s deplorables are now accusing Jack Dorsey - you know, the guy who founded Twitter and suggested to Elmo that he should buy it - of being a pedophile because his email address - which Elmo doxxed - has the word “pizza” in it. > ---
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1946 "2022-12-11T05:49:25Z")
I’m beginning to think that anyone who has any kind of association with Elmo is at risk, sort of like someone who befriends a dangerous psychopath. (Well, not “sort of”. Apparently closer to “exactly like”.) ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1947 "2022-12-11T11:55:44Z")
…well, as Elon Musk launches into an unprovoked attack on Anthony Fauci today, I just wanted to point out to everyone that this isn’t as low as Musk will go, and that this isn’t even close to how bad things are going to get. At the very base level Elon Musk is a _troll_. He’s thriving off the attention, has zero moral centre, and has surrounded himself with the very worst that crypto, g#mergate, p@zzagate, qanon, GC’s, have to offer. Earlier today a business promoted a tweet that attacked Yoel Roth. It literally didn’t do anything else: it just attacked him and the ad got approved and it ran. You are going to see more of this. As I said in the other thread: this is the endgame. This is what Twitter will become. A cess-pool of scum and villainy. Like with Trump, people will assume that surely he will eventually come to his senses. But that isn’t going to happen. ---
**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 11, 2022, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1948 "2022-12-11T12:02:50Z")
Here’s a post from yesterday in the breaking news thread. The original includes a cite to Business Insider that the preview here doesn’t show. > [@Now that Musk bought Twitter -- Breaking News only](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/108): > > Scraping up cash where they can: From an industrial-sized pizza oven to a statue of the Twitter bird, here are all the weird things you can buy from Elon Musk’s Twitter fire sale… Anyhow, when I heard they were selling the big blue sign off the building I could only think of Lord Musk wearing a cloak with some weird, elaborate cheesy sci-fi-style collar and intoning to the assembled Twitter-slaves at HQ something like: “You will have no graven images before me. I am the One. I am the Ony. I am the Musk. Worship me or die!” as a crane rips the sign off the wall with a resounding crash. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1949 "2022-12-11T13:58:09Z")
> [@Now that Musk bought Twitter -- Breaking News only](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/108): > > From an industrial-sized pizza oven Getting rid of the pizza oven is all part of Elon’s plan to clean up the employees at Twitter. Everyone knows something like that is a like a red-hot beacon to pedophiles. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1950 "2022-12-11T15:06:01Z")
Musk had a tweet earlier today as follows: “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.” What a witty dude. \*Marjorie Taylor Greene responded by saying she affirms his pronouns. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1951 "2022-12-11T15:25:01Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > As I said in the other thread: this is the endgame. This is what Twitter will become. A cess-pool of scum and villainy. Like with Trump, people will assume that surely he will eventually come to his senses. But that isn’t going to happen. Yeah I hope a rival can spring up quickly enough that Twitter can just die. Right now we basically have _two_ Truth Socials and a plethora of contenders battling to be the new platform for grown-ups. Hopefully a clear winner on the grown-up side will emerge, and then we can all just forget Twitter ever existed. ---
**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 11, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1952 "2022-12-11T21:56:54Z")
If that’s how prosecute wants to be referred to, it’d be wrong not to humor prosecute. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1953 "2022-12-11T23:21:26Z")
That’s what I’m thinking. Prosecute bought fauci platform so prosecute could announce fauci pronouns, we should use them. ---
**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 12, 2022, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1954 "2022-12-12T00:46:04Z")
Jordan Peterson says Elmo has done a great job since prosecute took over Twitter, as he’s spent days looking for child porn and hasn’t been able to find any. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjuWMKZVUAAuFXO?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjuWMKZVUAAuFXO?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1955 "2022-12-12T00:52:45Z")
I think mr Peterson has said a little too much about his “hobby” ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1956 "2022-12-12T00:59:56Z")
I’m thinking less that Twitter is going to devolve into another Truth Social and more that its headed straight towards becoming another 4chan. It’ll be almost like QAnon returning back home. ---
**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 12, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1957 "2022-12-12T01:00:51Z")
I can’t find this tweet…I suppose he could have deleted it. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1958 "2022-12-12T01:18:01Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Musk had a tweet earlier today as follows: “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.” > > What a witty dude. > > \*Marjorie Taylor Greene responded by saying she affirms his pronouns. In addition to the revoltingly-smug conviction that Elmo–and Empty–inexplicably hold of ‘being witty’ (ha!), there’s the ‘put a target on someone’s back in a nation filled with well-armed loons’ aspect. Which, of course, bothers neither miscreant in the least. Also, the ‘distract from the actual situation of a right-wing that’s failed time and again and therefore is looking for a way to change that reality’: > ---
**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 12, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1959 "2022-12-12T02:06:03Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I can’t find this tweet…I suppose he could have deleted it. I remain mystified that a platform that believes in free speech has a delete capability. If you have complete freedom to say whatever, then there’s never a reason to want to retract what you said. if it was an error, issue a clarification. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1960 "2022-12-12T02:19:10Z")
If you can’t find it I’m leaning in the direction of fake. Its just a little bit too on the nose and ripe for obvious ridicule. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=97) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=99)