# 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:** 177
**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 3, 2026, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3542 "2026-09-03T00:27:47Z")
Gee, with all this talk of ACTG sequences and mitochondrial DNA and “European” appearance, one might almost think this guy was a raging racist and a throwback to the Nazi era of eugenics. Surely not! 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3543 "2026-09-03T00:30:26Z")
I see Elmo has been reading up on Mengele. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3544 "2026-09-03T00:39:52Z")
Elon is indeed the genius he thinks he is! In that, just like Trump, he is infernally inspired when it comes to ways to **piss me off** and find a way to go even **lower** by the standards of any worthwhile human being. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3545 "2026-09-03T03:03:31Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Gee, with all this talk of ACTG sequences and mitochondrial DNA and “European” appearance, one might almost think this guy was a raging racist and a throwback to the Nazi era of eugenics. The fact that he was replying to a twit asking if Jews are white was enough to tip me off. Well, without the reply being him telling the author of the twit that they were a neo-Nazi and advising them to self-deport from his social platform . ---
**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 3, 2026, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3546 "2026-09-03T10:37:48Z")
Whatever race that twit is, we Jews aren’t. ---
**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, 2026, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3547 "2026-09-09T01:29:21Z")
Elon now backing race war. > **[David Rothschild (@davmicrot.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/davmicrot.bsky.social/post/3muzrl3aizc2h)** > > Largest Republican donor (by far): we should have a race war against non-whites. > > Corporate Media: Democrats really need to answer some hard questions about this Twitch streamer almost no one has ever heard of. > > \[contains quote post or other embedded... ---
**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, 2026, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3548 "2026-09-09T02:05:45Z")
In a surprise​🙄, Elon may have over promised and under delivered… again. Overpromised, underdelivered: Tesla is officially killing its Solar Roof tiles. Despite Musk’s target of 1,000 installs a week, only ~3,000 were completed in 7 years. Another lesson in hype vs reality as Tesla pivots back to standard solar panels. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3549 "2026-10-03T03:22:28Z")
Elon has apparently fired babymama #4. > **[Elon Musk’s partner Shivon Zilis says he ended relationship with ‘no warning’](https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/elon-musk-shivon-zilis-breakup-b3060589.html)** > > Zilis and Musk share four children together ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3550 "2026-10-03T04:59:16Z")
Shocking, just discarding the host or is it the husk? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3551 "2026-10-03T08:00:37Z")
Wow, who could have predicted this. Is she the mother of little Kevlar? ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3552 "2026-10-03T08:13:07Z")
No, that was one of Grimes’. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3553 "2026-10-03T13:41:15Z")
Oh! Good to know. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3554 "2026-10-03T20:45:22Z")
[![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/oo2rysdgbiimldy5v2i3) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/oo2rysdgbiimldy5v2i3) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3555 "2026-10-03T20:49:31Z")
Wait for the “You compared him to a monkey, racist!” comments coming in… ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3556 "2026-10-03T20:55:47Z")
Except that of course capitalism isn’t mere hoarding, despite the strident cries of Marxists. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3557 "2026-10-03T20:58:46Z")
And Musk isn’t much of a capitalist. He’s perfectly ok restricting everybody else’s capital as long as his own isn’t. What was supposed to be the point? ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3558 "2026-10-03T21:08:46Z")
There’s also the matter of degree to consider here. Even if you believe in the wisdom of free markets, and the existence of millionaires may very well be a natural outcome of such, the fact that one human being can apparently be worth a trillion dollars while other people are starving is a symptom of a deeply broken system. And if you think Musk earned his trillion by out competing other capitalists in a free market economy, I got a bridge to sell you. > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > What was supposed to be the point? I think the point was supposed to be “Rich people good!” ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3559 "2026-10-03T21:10:32Z")
We’re all the lot of us displaced billionaires, I suppose ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3560 "2026-10-03T21:42:18Z")
The idea that Elon Musk being rich _ **made** _ millions of people poor is, well, debatable. Musk being morally culpable for their poverty, even more so. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3561 "2026-10-03T21:51:16Z")
He certainly made a lot of people dead. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=176) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=178)