# 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:** 107
**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:** [April 1, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2142 "2025-04-01T18:36:57Z")
> [@yendis](#): > > You’d expect this would work to inoculate the US against such shenanigans, but apparently not. The people who voted for this stuff never paid the slightest attention to what we did elsewhere. So they had no learning opportunity. Or at least they comprehensively turned their nose up at even trying to learn from it. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2143 "2025-04-01T21:03:24Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The people who voted for this stuff never paid the slightest attention to what we did elsewhere. And in fact are trying to outlaw any teaching of history that does not affirm that America is the bestest and nicest country that ever existed that never did anything nefarious. Only they don’t know the word “nefarious”. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2025, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2144 "2025-04-01T21:35:40Z")
Sure they do. They just pronounce it “trump”. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2145 "2025-04-01T22:13:44Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The people who voted for this stuff never paid the slightest attention to what we did elsewhere. So they had no learning opportunity. Or at least they comprehensively turned their nose up at even trying to learn from it. To be fair, the people who voted against it are still, overwhelmingly, in the bag for populism and opposed to any measures that would reduce it. It’s very difficult to look at Latin America, during the Cold War era, and come out in support of populism on an evidentiary basis. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2146 "2025-04-02T19:51:16Z")
“Bro, I’m not mad that I wasted millions trying to buy an election bro, I lost on purpose bro” [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qva6zago4agr25tkiu6rbyw6/bafkreiavfuiu2ts3pbjskj76ynaskwg3dsmjuww5ftx76bjovpgaeik2ii@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qva6zago4agr25tkiu6rbyw6/bafkreiavfuiu2ts3pbjskj76ynaskwg3dsmjuww5ftx76bjovpgaeik2ii@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2147 "2025-04-02T21:25:33Z")
You have to understand that Musk grew up playing Apartheid chess. Not only does white go first but black has only pawns and their pieces arent free to move without permission. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2148 "2025-04-02T23:59:16Z")
That’s fucking _funny_. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2149 "2025-04-03T03:30:17Z")
Eloon, the child, so confused. I’d make a haiku if I had talent. [![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/439a4e2a-4de5-4199-8a23-a1799f6b8536) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/439a4e2a-4de5-4199-8a23-a1799f6b8536) ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2150 "2025-04-03T03:45:28Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “Bro, I’m not mad that I wasted millions trying to buy an election bro, I lost on purpose bro” [![](https://y.yarn.co/301f0795-41cf-4e9e-9286-cc71bf54fc6c_text.gif) ](https://y.yarn.co/301f0795-41cf-4e9e-9286-cc71bf54fc6c_text.gif) ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2151 "2025-04-04T19:46:24Z")
Germany is now financing Ukraine’s access to one of Starlink’s competitors. > **[Germany finances Ukraine's use of Starlink alternative Eutelsat, Reuters reports](https://kyivindependent.com/germany-finances-ukraines-use-of-starlink-alternative-eutelsat-reuters-reports/)** > > Eutelsat serves as an alternative to tech billionaire Elon Musk's Starlink, which has played a key role in Ukraine's battlefield communications. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2152 "2025-04-04T22:44:51Z")
Ceterum, TSLA delenda est. > **[https://i.redd.it/zo5xyb78kvse1.png](https://i.redd.it/zo5xyb78kvse1.png)** ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2153 "2025-04-05T12:15:26Z")
As I’ve said before, if you’re going to pee in the pool, don’t do it from the diving board. All billionaires meddle in politics. Musk is finding out whey they usually don’t meddle so openly. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2154 "2025-04-05T13:48:25Z")
To quote a Captain Kirk line from TOS: > Who’s interferin’? We’re takin’ over. Musk fully intends to rule the world, or at least the USA. Maybe own it all, but certainly rule it all. Hard to do that clandestinely. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2155 "2025-04-05T17:17:20Z")
[![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/fba2f287-4500-45a7-afa0-32d5fc020894) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/fba2f287-4500-45a7-afa0-32d5fc020894) ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2156 "2025-04-06T06:45:56Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > As I’ve said before, if you’re going to pee in the pool, don’t do it from the diving board. > > All billionaires meddle in politics. Musk is finding out whey they usually don’t meddle so openly. Yeah, there’s a good reason why you don’t see, say, the CEOs of McDonalds or Walmart openly stumping for candidates or publicly pushing their pet political causes. Not that those companies don’t exercise a good deal of political influence, or spend massive amounts of money on lobbying, but they do so behind the scenes and in a way that won’t alienate a huge number of their customers. And I certainly can’t see those guys, or most any executive from a Fortune 500 company, throwing up a Nazi salute. Prior to 2024 environmentally conscious liberals were a big part of Tesla’s customer base. Now many of those folks wouldn’t touch a Tesla with a million-foot pole. And, as I mentioned in one of the other threads, I can’t see too many conservatives (who’ve been conditioned to despise EVs, due in no small part to people like Trump having spent years trashing them) choosing to buy a Tesla instead of a big ass coal rolling pick up truck when it comes time to get a new vehicle. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2025, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2157 "2025-04-06T07:26:15Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Musk fully intends to rule the world, or at least the USA. Maybe own it all, but certainly rule it all. Hard to do that clandestinely What? You never heard of the iIlluminati? Behind the throne is where the real power players sit. But it doesn’t do much for his insatiable need for adoration. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2025, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2158 "2025-04-06T07:35:41Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > You never heard of the iIlluminati? I understand they recently reorganized themselves as the Ancient and Mystic Society of No Elons, then recruited Elon Glumplick because they’re allowed to have one. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2159 "2025-04-06T07:38:48Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > What? You never heard of the iIlluminati? [![](https://i.imgflip.com/9pwci1.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/9pwci1.jpg) ---
**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:** [April 6, 2025, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2160 "2025-04-06T07:40:50Z")
Meanwhile, the world’s richest man and de facto president is watching TV at midnight on a Saturday and whining that the people on it are making fun of him. [![](https://preview.redd.it/elon-is-once-again-very-sad-about-comedy-v0-jeo29rt0y5te1.png?auto=webp&s=132b9994bff5d7203ae0563d91b99bb6ab6b31f0) ](https://preview.redd.it/elon-is-once-again-very-sad-about-comedy-v0-jeo29rt0y5te1.png?auto=webp&s=132b9994bff5d7203ae0563d91b99bb6ab6b31f0) ---
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2161 "2025-04-07T01:12:37Z")
Tesler is refusing to take swastikars as trade-ins. > **[Cybertruck owners want to return their vehicles. Tesla says no](https://www.masslive.com/business/2025/04/report-cybertruck-owners-want-to-return-their-vehicles-tesla-says-no.html)** > > As Tesla faces headwinds in 2025, the company is reportedly refusing to accept its own product, the Cybertruck, as a trade-in for a new vehicle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=106) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=108)