# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 1)

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3873 "2023-03-15T18:58:25Z")

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> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> Musk was the smartest person on Earth when the left thought he was part of their tribe. He only became a moron when he dared to step off the reservation.

Here’s a 2013 thread Hyperloop thread: [A tube train? That’s IT?!! (Elon Musk’s Hyperloop)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tube-train-thats-it-elon-musks-hyperloop/666085)

The over the top hero worship of the smartest man on Earth is sickening from this leftist board praising their presumed leftist hero.

Here’s some examples.

> [@A tube train? That's IT?!! (Elon Musk's Hyperloop)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tube-train-thats-it-elon-musks-hyperloop/666085/1):
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> To my somewhat disappointment, it’s a [tube train](http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/08/12/technology-hyperloop-travel-elon-musk.html): vehicles running in a semi-evacuated tube.

> [@A tube train? That's IT?!! (Elon Musk's Hyperloop)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tube-train-thats-it-elon-musks-hyperloop/666085/3):
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> Particularly disappointing since he said it wasn’t going to be a tube train…

> [@A tube train? That's IT?!! (Elon Musk's Hyperloop)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tube-train-thats-it-elon-musks-hyperloop/666085/5):
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> Elon Musk sounds like a Harry Potter character.

> [@A tube train? That's IT?!! (Elon Musk's Hyperloop)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tube-train-thats-it-elon-musks-hyperloop/666085/9):
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> I get motion-sick just thinking about something that fast.

> [@A tube train? That's IT?!! (Elon Musk's Hyperloop)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tube-train-thats-it-elon-musks-hyperloop/666085/21):
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> It never ceases to amaze me - the faith people put in these supposed technological messiahs.

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