# 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:** 39
**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 30, 2024, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/761 "2024-10-30T06:50:05Z")
> **[Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams](https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-fans-are-losing-so-much-money-to-crypto-scams-2000515413)** > > Read the complaints filed with the FTC about scams that use Elon Musk's face. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/762 "2024-10-30T12:42:47Z")
> scams that use Elon Musk’s face Careful now, Elmo may actually running some of those scams. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2024, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/763 "2024-10-30T12:54:21Z")
Those stories are horrifying. ---
**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 30, 2024, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/764 "2024-10-30T13:05:41Z")
Everything in the RW media sphere these days seems to be a scam. What this says about the audience for these outlets is…unsurprising. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/765 "2024-10-30T13:32:49Z")
The number of people in those complaints who were already involved in cryptocurrency is, I guess, unsurprising…getting rich quickly seems to be a common theme, plus some real mental vulnerability. > I have lost over 50,000 with this individual and am concerned for my safety. I am still in touch with him and he does not know I am reporting this fraud. I have been scammed by another crypto individual online involving ethereum and lost over 30,000. Elon wanted to help me recoup from that as well as that case overlapped timeframes with this one. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/766 "2024-10-30T13:51:01Z")
Even if Elon is not involved in the scams, he’s not exactly up there teaching critical thinking, and has engaged in lots of deceptive practices in this campaign. MAGA is like a virus that needs to weaken people’s immune systems, and as a consequence they get secondary infections. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/767 "2024-10-30T15:29:23Z")
Saw this gem on the Reddit cryptoscams sub just yesterday. _Has anyone heard of Tim Hockey? Supposedly he does the investments for Elon Musk. Elon connected me with Tim to turn my crypto into an investment… Anyone? I have him on a chat right now and he wants to process real fast. Every move he tells me to do he wants a screenshot to advise me what to do._ What cracked me ( and everyone else) up was the “Elon connected me with”…Dude, Elon’s real busy destroying democracy, he doesn’t have time to network with internet randos. There are literally hundreds of stories like this on the scam subreddits, and 90% of them involve a WhatsApp or Telegram group, “trading signals” and a male professor with a female assistant. Elon is by far the biggest celebrity name the scammers use….probably because Elon fanboys are so gullible. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/768 "2024-10-30T17:48:28Z")
Are these boneheads an inexhaustible source of cash? I mean, between these scams, the Trump scams, religious send me money scams and gold scams, they have to run out sometime, right? I guess though that more suckers are created every minute (tip o the hat to P. T. Barnum) ---
**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 31, 2024, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/769 "2024-10-31T03:57:13Z")
> [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbLXI7lW0AA1UkM?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbLXI7lW0AA1UkM?format=jpg&name=medium) [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbLX4-cWIAAZj8u?format=jpg&name=large) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbLX4-cWIAAZj8u?format=jpg&name=large) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/770 "2024-10-31T04:59:07Z")
Slavery. That son of a bitch! ---
**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 31, 2024, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/771 "2024-10-31T07:15:34Z")
WTAF. I’m assuming we have criminal laws against such things. ---
**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 31, 2024, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/772 "2024-10-31T07:18:33Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I’m assuming we have criminal laws against such things Elmo: “I don’t understad the problem. Dad used to do this all the time in Pretoria.” ---
**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:** [October 31, 2024, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/773 "2024-10-31T07:31:42Z")
Here’s the Wired article: > **[Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s...](https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-america-pac-blitz-canvassing-michigan-uhaul/)** > > America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2024, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/774 "2024-10-31T09:05:45Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > I’m assuming we have criminal laws against such things > > Elmo: “I don’t understad the problem. Dad used to do this all the time in Pretoria.” I have to ask - just how effective a campaign tactic is a bunch of miserable, demoralized door knockers? Especially as they’re incentivized to spend as little time as possible with potential voters. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/775 "2024-10-31T11:43:29Z")
And there have been stories about people fixing the app to give false data about how many doors you’re hitting. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/776 "2024-10-31T14:20:17Z")
To be fair, the “fly in people to go door to door and gouge them of every cent they make” scam is not new, nor limited to politics, nor exploiting only black people. They even had a ripped from the headlines L&O episode about it in the 00’s. But Eloon is still scum. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/777 "2024-10-31T18:43:25Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I have to ask - just how effective a campaign tactic is a bunch of miserable, demoralized door knockers? No kidding! \< knock on door \> Person answers “Hi, I"m with the Trump campaign and he wants me to tell you that you’re going to be deported.” Next door: “Hi I"m with the Trump campaign and he’d like to know if he can come and grab your pussy” Wow, look at how many doors I knocked on! ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/778 "2024-10-31T18:44:58Z")
Or: “Hi, I"m with the Trump campaign. Vote for Trump.” "Why should I do that? “I dunno, I was just forced into a van and told to say this otherwise I can’t get home.” ---
**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:** [October 31, 2024, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/779 "2024-10-31T19:09:23Z")
Marshawn Lynch, is that you? ---
**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:** [October 31, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/780 "2024-10-31T20:20:51Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > WTAF. I’m assuming we have criminal laws against such things. Not if he’s successful we won’t. This is the guy Trump wants to put in charge of “[reinventing](https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/30/politics/donald-trump-government-what-matters/index.html)” the federal workforce. I may have to start updating my resume. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=40)