# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** elon-musk\ **Created:** [August 13, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634 "2024-08-13T00:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 102
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2042 "2025-03-21T21:22:17Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > but I don’t believe for a second that his only drug use is supervised ketamine microdosing. Yeah, cocaine is a big posibility. Aside from cannabis. He’s not a stable™ person. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2043 "2025-03-21T21:52:35Z")
> **[more mr. nice guy (@juniorhoncho.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/juniorhoncho.bsky.social/post/3lkuce6dwi22u)** > > ELON MUSK: (being shown the China War contingency plan while so jittery eyed from stimulants he can't make out the words) ahh. ha ha. not uh no not it's well. rather rubimentary. one of th uhh one uh you have to to rememb keep on mind is, they're... > [@](#): > > ELON MUSK: (being shown the China War contingency plan while so jittery eyed from stimulants he can’t make out the words) ahh. ha ha. not uh no not it’s well. rather rubimentary. one of th uhh one uh you have to to rememb keep on mind is, they’re very sneaky. i mean, pearl harper ---
**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:** [March 21, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2044 "2025-03-21T22:37:40Z")
As seen on Reddit; [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7dc2ec7iadso4vahsndlpofu/bafkreicz5peetfpeyusva72ir763wphttmvd6r2uu5x6jmxsityjwrvqgu@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7dc2ec7iadso4vahsndlpofu/bafkreicz5peetfpeyusva72ir763wphttmvd6r2uu5x6jmxsityjwrvqgu@jpeg) The Reddit mod’s response is golden; > [@](#): > > I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a post receive so many reports (at least 8 so far) when it obviously does not break the rules. No, this is not “targeted harassment”. No, this is not “threatening violence at someone else”. Yes, this is “Seattle related”. > > Edit: Some are reporting for “It’s promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability”? It’s promoting hate based on someone for being a dick. If being a dick is part of the driver’s identity, maybe you have a point. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2045 "2025-03-21T22:51:18Z")
That Reddit thread is rich in entertainment, but one of my favorite responses: > Don’t ever dump the juice from sardine cans onto the windshield and into the air vents. The oil makes it incredibly difficult to wash off of glass, and the smell bakes into the vents so that every time defrost turns on, the car smells a bit fishy. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2025, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2046 "2025-03-22T01:03:50Z")
Teen Vogue (which, surprisingly, is one of the few media outlets doing real journalism about the current admin without trying to suck up to Trump or create false both-sides-isms) has an interview with Elmo’s estranged daughter as the cover story of their latest issue. > **[Vivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and...](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian-jenna-wilson-elon-musk-trans-youth)** > > Elon Musk’s estranged daughter is coming into her own. ---
**Author:** ![Xocomil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xocomil/32/14927_2.png) [@Xocomil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xocomil)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2047 "2025-03-22T02:37:03Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’ll take the expertise of medical professionals over the opinion of a recreational user. The medical professional from you’re Priory link wrote: > As ketamine leaves the body, the craving for the drug becomes more intense. This means that people need to take more in order to achieve the desired effects[.] I think Scud knows more about drugs than whoever wrote that. The Green Hill Recovery link says: > Reasearchers report few cases of ketamine dependence, but they do occur with prolonged, repeated use. > It’s also not clear whether it’s safe to use over prolonged periods. > Physical or psychological dependence on ketamine is rare but can happen. None of that contradicts what Scud said. Now back to whatever this thread is about. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2048 "2025-03-22T02:58:49Z")
[![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n74wy26n6klbv7xgrndeog7s/bafkreiaxj7kvnyvklyjspv6eywxihzwwnoce6kp4tw2bvtfqk33fbno4te@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n74wy26n6klbv7xgrndeog7s/bafkreiaxj7kvnyvklyjspv6eywxihzwwnoce6kp4tw2bvtfqk33fbno4te@jpeg) In before Elmo declares that dumping TSLA is terrorism. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2049 "2025-03-22T04:05:23Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > who the fuck calls their child “Elon”? One who wants to have little to do with him and feels he should go play by himself. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2050 "2025-03-22T12:43:16Z")
Surstromming would be even better. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2051 "2025-03-22T12:46:29Z")
As opposed to Kraft singles (nice of the prankster to spend the extra bucks for name brand), sardine juice in the vents probably crosses over into vandalism. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2052 "2025-03-22T13:34:47Z")
Hah! I was thinking the same thought. It’s one of the first things I thought of after opening up a can about fifteen years ago – if there were somebody I hated, I would dump this stuff in heating vents. You’d have to mail order it from Sweden, but it would be oh so worth it – it’s just a couple orders of magnitude stronger than herring or any other fish you could get here. ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2053 "2025-03-22T14:04:08Z")
> **[Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest](https://www.politico.eu/article/musks-x-suspends-opposition-accounts-turkey-protest-civil-unrest-erdogan-imamoglu-istanbul-mayor/)** > > Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations. Normally this would just be Musk being Musk, but I think he’s establishing US policy here. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2054 "2025-03-22T20:21:30Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > [Musk’s PAC offers $100 to Wisconsin voters in pitch against “activist judges”](https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/elon-musk-pac-wisconsin-judges) What am I missing here? Isn’t flatly buying votes illegal by federal law if not by state? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2055 "2025-03-22T21:52:10Z")
About eleven years ago, [there was a fire](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27258303), > [@](#): > > The building went up in flames with 1,000 tins of surstromming inside. … The cans of rotten Baltic herring, which had already expanded due to the powerful fermentation gases inside, were heated by the fire and began to explode over a period of six hours. One of the cans flew over an outhouse roof, while another shot over the bay to a neighbour’s house, Mr Englund said.“It was terrible. I can’t get my head around what happened” ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2056 "2025-03-22T21:57:45Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Isn’t flatly buying votes illegal by federal law if not by state? He is not buying votes, he is buying signatures on a petition in hopes that those people will then vote the way he wants them to. It’s hard to say how well that works but probably does make a difference in an election. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2057 "2025-03-22T22:40:30Z")
He’s still telling people what to think. Setting the agenda. And handing out dollars, which tends to be persuasive. What I think is interesting is how little he’s paying compared to vote buying in poorer countries. If he was paying at PPP, it’d probably be more like $1,000 / vote. IOW, Loser elon is a cheapskate and he thinks Americans are too stupid / naïve to demand a reasonable price for committing voting fraud. And he’s probably right. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2058 "2025-03-22T23:19:59Z")
Possibly the $100 dollar price avoids triggering a legal threshold? ---
**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:** [March 23, 2025, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2059 "2025-03-23T03:27:10Z")
[![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r5tk2extlzf2npryalqtl65m/bafkreiayncbbshj53kibcwhcpjtz5jr2khjlxbxdxy433l72qz4exkkwzy@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r5tk2extlzf2npryalqtl65m/bafkreiayncbbshj53kibcwhcpjtz5jr2khjlxbxdxy433l72qz4exkkwzy@jpeg) …I think Elmo just threatened to kill his daughter. Perhaps if she’d changed her name to Xixian he’d be happier. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2060 "2025-03-23T03:40:59Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > he thinks Americans are too stupid / naïve to demand a reasonable price for committing voting fraud. And he’s probably right. If there are elections in 2026, there will be these sorts of things happening all over the country and they will most likely influence the outcomes. Just another cheap way for Elon to keep up the payments on the country he bought. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2061 "2025-03-23T04:14:07Z")
Possibly. But at the rate Tesla stock is going, he might have several of his loans called (as it happens, liquidity is an issue when the overwhelming majority of your value is tied up in stock!), and that could be a problem, since the only reason anybody (including his new best bud Donnie) can barely stand to be around him is his wealth. When that’s gone, or at least threatened, how will he ever get anybody to tell him he’s actually a cool guy and they really like hanging around with him for his intellect and personality and not the money? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=101) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=103)