# 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:** 130
**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 25, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2602 "2025-07-25T17:13:25Z")
I don’t think it has been mentioned here yet, but all of the Starlink service was out for a couple of hours yesterday due to a software glitch. ---
**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 25, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2603 "2025-07-25T17:15:45Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Seems legit: The delivery on “I am so fucking high right now” is world class. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2604 "2025-07-25T21:43:09Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > The delivery on “I am so fucking high right now” is world class. They are presumably trained to behave like their master. I just want to know who thinks these fumbling things are suddenly going to become dexterous enough to displace human workers, start mining and processing their own resources, and become self-replicating any time in the foreseeable future. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2605 "2025-07-25T22:41:57Z")
In other news, [Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia | Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/) > A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. > > During a pivotal push by Ukraine to retake territory from Russia in late September 2022, Elon Musk gave an order that disrupted the counteroffensive and dented Kyiv’s trust in Starlink, the satellite internet service the billionaire provided early in the war to help Ukraine’s military maintain battlefield connectivity. > > The account of the command counters Musk’s narrative of how he has handled Starlink service in Ukraine amid the war. As recently as March, in a post on X, his social media site, Musk wrote: “We would never do such a thing.” ---
**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:** [July 25, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2606 "2025-07-25T23:24:46Z")
Why would he do such a thing? I’ve never heard that Musk was a tankie, or trying to extort concessions from Ukraine, unlike Trump. ---
**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 26, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2607 "2025-07-26T01:20:31Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > I’ve never heard that Musk was a tankie, or trying to extort concessions from Ukraine, unlike Trump. He’s been doing this sort of thing for a while. See this story from 2023: > **[Elon Musk's refusal to have Starlink support Ukraine attack in Crimea raises...](https://apnews.com/article/spacex-ukraine-starlink-russia-air-force-fde93d9a69d7dbd1326022ecfdbc53c2)** > > SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s refusal to allow Ukraine to use Starlink internet services to launch a surprise attack on Russian forces in Crimea last September has raised questions for the Pentagon. > Excerpts of a new biography of Musk published by The Washington Post last week revealed that the Ukrainians in September 2022 had asked for the Starlink support to attack Russian naval vessels based at the Crimean port of Sevastopol. Musk had refused due to concerns that Russia would launch a nuclear attack in response. Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and claims it as its territory. This is kind of old news being regurgitated. ---
**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 26, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2608 "2025-07-26T12:37:42Z")
[Elon Musk opened a diner in Hollywood. What could go wrong? I went to find out | Los Angeles | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/26/elon-musk-tesla-diner-hollywood?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1753528406) I think the Guardian writer goes in with an agenda, but to be fair, he has a lot to work with. ---
**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 26, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2609 "2025-07-26T12:56:26Z")
Some local, on-the-ground reporting here: > **[Melissa Stetten (@melissastetten.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/melissastetten.bsky.social/post/3lusgzxb4tk2u)** > > The Tesla diner is unfortunately in my neighborhood so I took a little peek to see boxes of milk and frozen foods out in the heat. Good luck to everyone’s stomachs. ---
**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 26, 2025, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2610 "2025-07-26T13:16:40Z")
Listen, I’m not on a Musk binge this morning, it’s just that I’m reading news for the first time in a while. Italy declares that “free” memberships that result in data being sold are in fact a taxable VAT transaction: [Exclusive: Meta, X and LinkedIn appeal unprecedented VAT claim by Italy | Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/meta-x-linkedin-appeal-unprecedented-vat-claim-by-italy-2025-07-21/) I am no tax lawyer, but this doesn’t seem defensible. Still, I heartily approve. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2611 "2025-07-28T16:15:50Z")
For a moment I thought maybe they were empty containers but nope, there’s clearly milk in those “Perishable - Keep Refrigerated” boxes. ---
**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 30, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2612 "2025-07-30T22:23:44Z")
Well, now. [This](https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-pushes-view-that-women-are-anti-white-because-theyre-weak-2000636625) is awfully sweet. Elno eXcreted a post that you will “_yeah well **uh** _” > [@Dr Insensitive Jerk post](#): > > Insightful. Women are built to be traded to another tribe (or captured) and slide seamlessly into their new culture. That keeps them safe,even though they are physically weak. > > 20 years after they are captured, they are the matriarchs who enforce that culture. > > That is why women conform to the dominant culture, and thereby amplify that culture. > > IMO, that is why Western women, raised in anti-white culture, are now amplifying anti-white culture, even though they are white. > > hey think that keeps them safe, and they are correct, but only in the ort term. In the long term, they will be forced to remember they are white. > > Better they are reminded of that by white men, because the alternative is not so gentle. Ellno made some ridiculously misogynistic comment about programming, but, holy crap. ---
**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 30, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2613 "2025-07-30T22:47:09Z")
We’re so fucked. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2614 "2025-07-31T11:51:01Z")
I didn’t know women were “built” in the first place, let alone all the insanity that followed that. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2615 "2025-07-31T12:26:57Z")
“Were built to” is total dominance speak, meant to shape (distorted) reality. ---
**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 31, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2616 "2025-07-31T14:21:33Z")
Quite honestly, I am not so sure that I would want to live in a society dominated and controlled by women, but, on the other hand, letting men run things is all kinds of fucked up. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2617 "2025-07-31T14:24:26Z")
One of the tenets of gender-based equality is that women can be just as corrupt and/or incompetent as men. ---
**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 31, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2618 "2025-07-31T14:58:58Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Elno eXcreted a post Is there some white supremacist code I’m missing? What does he mean by traded? Culture? “20 years”? And did Elmo actually write “ort” or is that a transcription error? ---
**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 31, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2619 "2025-07-31T15:38:49Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And did Elmo actually write “ort” or is that a transcription error? He didn’t write _any_ of it, he was replying/retweeting it. What Musk tweeted as a reply was: > They’ve been programmed to do so by their teachers and the media He was promoting the info, but he didn’t write it. [![](https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Dr.-Insensitive-Jerk-1280x853.jpg) ](https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Dr.-Insensitive-Jerk-1280x853.jpg) Sometimes when a person tries to use cutesy language like “eXcreted” nobody knows what the fuck they’re talking about. So the confusion isn’t your fault. ---
**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 31, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2620 "2025-07-31T18:25:04Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > What does he mean by traded? Culture? “20 years”? “traded”: women are chattel. Like shiny glass beads, they are valuable trading material with the men of nearby tribes. Or, they make great loot to steal in a raid on those adjacent tribes. This is the reason for their existence on earth - trading currency; surely not to be equal human beings. Culture and 20 years: Once traded or abducted into a new tribe, women adapt to it to survive. And quickly become status quo conservatives in it because their success and survival depends on sucking up to it. Resistance to the local dominant paradigm is useless. His next point is that since western culture is purely anti-white wokeitude, all white women are now acculturated to be anti-white woke. Which survival tactic will backfire on them bigtime. Note: I do _not_ subscribe to any of these odious views. But it’s blatantly obvious that that’s what “Dr. Insensitive Jerk” means and what elmo so adoringly helped spread around the internet. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2621 "2025-07-31T21:18:45Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > But it’s blatantly obvious that that’s what “Dr. Insensitive Jerk” means and what elmo so adoringly helped spread around the internet. Yeah, I think your post correctly translated the He-Man assumptions of the Jerk post (as well as Elmo’s approving response). What stands out: how pathetically insecure a person must have to be to cling to such bizarre concepts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=129) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=131)