# 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:** 14
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/261 "2024-09-09T11:21:40Z")
…infidelity ---
**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:** [September 9, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/262 "2024-09-09T13:51:08Z")
A marriage made in Heaven - Musk and Trump. Both actively dislike each other but are quite willing to form a dysfunctional bond for personal gain. Recent and current business ventures spiraling downwards - check. Racist, hateful bigots - check, check, and checkcheckcheckcheck. Women as marginally useful containers - check. Morals, ethics, promises - for losers. Cadres, cults, fanatics - the BASE. on and on - I despair. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/263 "2024-09-10T01:36:15Z")
**'WE’RE GOING TO MARS IN FOUR YEARS"** Good og, someone either up his dosage or cut him off! > **[Crewed SpaceX Flight To Mars In Four Years? Whatever You Say, Elon](https://jalopnik.com/crewed-spacex-flight-to-mars-in-four-years-whatever-yo-1851643478)** > > Will Elon Musk send a human to Mars before or after he delivers a new production Roadster? ---
**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:** [September 10, 2024, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/264 "2024-09-10T03:35:29Z")
That’s bound to be easier than those fully autonomous vehicles he promised we would get…what is it now, 5 years ago? ---
**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:** [September 10, 2024, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/265 "2024-09-10T03:42:52Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > 'WE’RE GOING TO MARS IN FOUR YEARS" [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53983459687_20708b5b93_o.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53983459687_20708b5b93_o.jpg) ---
**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:** [September 10, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/266 "2024-09-10T04:15:29Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > **'WE’RE GOING TO MARS IN FOUR YEARS"** > > Good og, someone either up his dosage or cut him off! And Full Self-Driving (FSD) cars in … two weeks! 😆 My predictions: - FSD will eventually happen, initially with extreme limitations on where it’s feasible and legal, and eventually expanding. Just like with AI, which is at the core of it, the major advances will likely **not** come from any of Elmo’s organizations. Just because he’s fascinated with it isn’t enough to actually develop the necessary tech to make it happen. - I can believe that Elmo will set an aggressive schedule for SpaceX to put humans on Mars. This is what will happen in four years: Elmo will fire a bunch of SpaceX engineers, and promise human space flight to Mars in four years (quoting the eminent moose Bullwinkle, “this time for sure!”). Also, Xitter – staggering in death throes for years – will finally be defunct when Elmo gets bored with it and tired of pumping money into it. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2024, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/267 "2024-09-10T04:30:57Z")
He is such a defective person. I know that money makes people stupid, but even when I try to imagine what he would have been like without a lot of money, the only thing the comes to mind is that he would have been one of those guys who shot up a mall or black church. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/268 "2024-09-10T17:15:27Z")
The thing is, his money and his stupid makes other people with money stupid, and that makes him more money (mostly). ---
**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:** [September 10, 2024, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/269 "2024-09-10T17:20:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@smithsb](#): > > > > 'WE’RE GOING TO MARS IN FOUR YEARS" > > WSJ: “ **Elon Musk: I’ll Put a Man on Mars in 10 Years** ” No inconsistency here: the “_we’re going to Mars in four years_” will be an all-female crew, and the "_put a man on Mars in 10 years"_ is the time period he thinks it will take to make trips to Mars **safe** , and thus workable for non-expendable people (men). Leon has been pretty clear on his hierarchy-of-value for the genders. It’s no surprise, then, that he’s willing to risk sub-humans’ lives sooner. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2024, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/270 "2024-09-11T08:55:36Z")
Weird guy being weird. [Elon Musk on X: “Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life” / X](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1833728804579111268) ---
**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:** [September 11, 2024, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/271 "2024-09-11T09:12:27Z")
Umm Elon? You are probably the only person that isn’t living on Mars that actually covets your spooge. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2024, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/272 "2024-09-11T09:21:20Z")
In his mind, he probably thinks he’s being completely reasonable. What more could a **feeeeee-male** possibly want than to incubate his superior ~~white~~ DNA? ---
**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:** [September 11, 2024, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/273 "2024-09-11T09:27:43Z")
Every time I think Elon can’t get any weirder or creepier, he proves me definitively wrong. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2024, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/274 "2024-09-11T09:55:11Z")
Looks like he really wants Taylor to write him a song. Let’s see how that turns out for him. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/275 "2024-09-11T14:24:04Z")
Just a cover of Muskrat Love, with a few of the lyrics tweaked. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/276 "2024-09-11T14:52:05Z")
How do you manage to become one of the richest people on earth and still put off constant weird gross loser vibes like the creepy dude at the coffee shop? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/277 "2024-09-11T15:39:34Z")
The first is what you do. The latter is inescapably who you are. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/278 "2024-09-11T16:18:00Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > How do you manage to become one of the richest people on earth and still put off constant weird gross loser vibes like the creepy dude at the coffee shop? With apologies to Lord Acton: > Money enables weirdness. Near-infinite money produces near-infinite weirdness. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/279 "2024-09-11T16:22:34Z")
Yeah, but there’s lots of rich people you _don’t_ hear about. And certainly don’t hear about with this nonsense. You’re rich! Go throw secret weird sex parties with consenting sycophants on a yacht or something. Don’t spend your days desperately seeking approval from incel nerds on Twitter. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/280 "2024-09-11T16:27:58Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > You’re rich! Go throw secret weird sex parties with consenting sycophants on a yacht or something. Don’t spend your days desperately seeking approval from incel nerds on Twitter. It all makes sense now–Twitter is his yacht. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=15)