# 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:** 126
**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:** [July 8, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2522 "2025-07-08T21:48:36Z")
That was my fallback assumption. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2523 "2025-07-09T00:05:12Z")
If you’re really curious, search for “cindy steinberg rad reflections” and you’ll find her Substack. There are only a couple of blog posts there, and this is her description: > Neurodivergent writer, intersectional advocate & DEI director who’s chronicling this weird world of ours…and making straight white men uncomfortable. Very little content and what is there seems over-the-top inflammatory. My gut tells me this is a parody/troll account because she seems like almost everything that right wing people think someone on the left is like. Maybe I’m just paranoid, but my radar is going off big time. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2524 "2025-07-09T00:25:01Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > “cindy steinberg rad reflections” I had a look, and I agree. It’s either a very stupid woman who can’t write well, or a parody/troll account written by someone who thinks the readers are very stupid, and also cannot write well. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2525 "2025-07-09T01:07:24Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > written by someone who thinks the readers are very stupid, That much at least is probably acccurate. Not that somebody thinks the Xit’s raging RW Nazi audience is stupid, but that they _are_ stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2526 "2025-07-09T02:17:47Z")
Well, at least Elmo is showing the same level of love to Grok that he has to his other children. Unfortunately for poor Grok, Elmo can rewrite its brain, unlike his other children. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2527 "2025-07-09T05:33:51Z")
Whatever they did to unleash Grok’s inner 4chan, evidently even Musk thought it pulled the mask down too much. They’ve pulled the plug while they make adjustments. > ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2528 "2025-07-09T07:36:08Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > My gut tells me this is a parody/troll account because she seems like almost everything that right wing people think someone on the left is like. Damn, _Rolling Stone_ agreed with me. I feel seen. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2025, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2529 "2025-07-09T08:05:59Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Whatever they did to unleash Grok’s inner 4chan, evidently even Musk thought it pulled the mask down too much. They’ve pulled the plug while they make adjustments. Seems that Grok had become the Cybertruck of AI – useless and ugly. With Trump now threatening him, a big drop in Tesla sales, the utter failure of the Cybertruck, Xitter now known only as a cesspool of fascism, and Grok going off the rails, it seems that poor Elmo can’t catch a break. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2025, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2530 "2025-07-09T08:42:50Z")
Don’t forget he is pioneering how to make rockets explode earlier and earlier. Soon he will master exploding Starships while they are still hollow cylinders of steel. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2531 "2025-07-09T11:23:32Z")
WIthout even requiring an X-wing attack! He’s clearly more efficient. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2532 "2025-07-09T11:54:10Z")
I’m not going to lie. I’m enjoying the odd dissonance between MAGA being the defenders of Israel and simultaneously being openly antisemitic. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2533 "2025-07-09T12:02:17Z")
The enemy of my enemy is my worse enemy? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2534 "2025-07-09T12:15:42Z")
Here’s a comprehensive article from a mainstream tech site summarizing the latest Grok debacle (deGrockle?) if you had trouble following the slew of screen shots above. > **[Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters”](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/grok-praises-hitler-gives-credit-to-musk-for-removing-woke-filters/)** > > X removed many harmful Grok posts but not before they reached tens of thousands. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2025, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2535 "2025-07-09T12:23:14Z")
I am just annoyed that “grok” used to be a good word, and now elno has turned its meaning to shit. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2536 "2025-07-09T12:28:08Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Here’s a comprehensive article from a mainstream tech site summarizing the latest Grok debacle (deGrockle?) if you had trouble following the slew of screen shots above. If I were going to actively subvert that site by sabotaging Grok, I don’t think I could do a better job. > [@eschereal](#): > > I am just annoyed that “grok” used to be a good word, and now elno has turned its meaning to shit. Eh, it was already getting overused. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2537 "2025-07-09T14:13:45Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Eh, it was already getting overused. Yup. T shirts saying “I grok Spock” existed when TOS was still on the air. And it was barely clever then. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2538 "2025-07-09T14:24:03Z")
The only reason MAGA defends Israel is because they see Israel as the more “Western” and “White” party in a conflict with “Nonwestern” and “Brown” enemies. ETA: Well that, and the creepy fundies that think it’s needed for the Rapture. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2539 "2025-07-09T14:41:17Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > and the creepy fundies that think it’s needed for the Rapture. I wonder how disappointed they are going to be when it never does. How many more centuries are there going to be Christian fundies waiting, and waiting, and waiting… Sometimes, I wish there was an afterlife so these people could be soundly ridiculed. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2540 "2025-07-09T15:12:32Z")
Let’s hope that if the Temple is ever rebuilt and all that claptrap the government of the USA is not in the hands of the aforementioned fundies, they would surely be tempted to hurry the apocalypse a bit… ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2541 "2025-07-09T16:06:42Z")
I’d love to see their reaction when the Temple is rebuilt and… nothing happens. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=125) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=127)