# 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:** 78
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1562 "2025-02-05T23:30:29Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > The SCOTUS ruling applied specifically to the POTUS immunity. Yeah, that’s my impression. No “umbrella.” ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1563 "2025-02-05T23:33:09Z")
[![](https://i.makeagif.com/media/8-19-2023/P-op6T.gif) ](https://i.makeagif.com/media/8-19-2023/P-op6T.gif) ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1564 "2025-02-06T06:30:13Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Stephen Fry explains why Elon Musk is not a Nazi: That was very cool, but I would simply maintain that an incompetent Nazi is still a Nazi. Elmo and his orange-hued companion do their best, but there was a striking _savoir faire_ in the Nazis of 1930s Germany that these clowns seem to lack. They’re Nazis in spirit, but they’re mostly just wrecking balls, with about the same amount of intelligence and planning as an actual steel wrecking ball, or, say, the management of Xitter. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1565 "2025-02-06T07:08:54Z")
… It’s a joke and an insult, not an actual historical argument. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1566 "2025-02-06T07:27:07Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > … It’s a joke and an insult, not an actual historical argument.   Of course, and my response was in the same spirit. In all humour there’s an element of truth. The original Volkswagen that Hitler commissioned was a really great concept, though the German people never got to experience the intended benefits. Eventually I owned one of the evolved imported versions myself as my first car, and loved it! The original Beetle and its incrementally improved brethren were widely celebrated as both economical and extremely well-built and reliable. I was, some years ago, mildly interested in maybe buying a Tesla, until it turned out that Elmo was insane and that product support would be unpredictable. Anyone who can suddenly decide that the price of a Tesla Model 3 in Canada would go up $9,000 on Feb 1 for no reason at all is not a rational individual. I’d still like to own an EV but the chances that it will ever be a Tesla are basically zero. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1567 "2025-02-06T15:36:13Z")
You know, I don’t think this has come up, but it seems to me the old Spitting Image bit “I’ve Never Met a Nice South African” ought to be going viral. Something tells me it would really piss Elon off were it to do so And for those who don’t remember it: [https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x93m5ma](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x93m5ma) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1568 "2025-02-06T16:44:30Z")
Everyone keeps ignoring that he’s half Canadian… ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1569 "2025-02-06T17:08:44Z")
That made me laugh out loud, and by the way, when I posted that I thought of you and hoped you wouldn’t be too offended by the song. I used to work with a fellow from SA and he hated that song, so we used to tease him with it mercilessly. We also teased the Italian guy with “Dominic The Donkey” ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1570 "2025-02-06T17:19:11Z")
We’ll just toss him with the 9,000 other alt-right, nazi weirdos we seem to export to the US and world (seriously what is in the water here?). ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1571 "2025-02-06T17:49:01Z")
I believe that gene must be recessive. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1572 "2025-02-06T19:40:56Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > when I posted that I thought of you and hoped you wouldn’t be too offended by the song. Naah, it was a silly anti-apartheid song, no reason it would offend me. > [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > I believe that gene must be recessive. Have you not read anything about his mother? She’s pretty [awful](https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/elon-musks-mother-says-she-felt-relief-after-bailing-malicious-dishonest-democratic-party). So no, he gets it from both sides, apparently. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1573 "2025-02-06T22:43:44Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I was, some years ago, mildly interested in maybe buying a Tesla, **until it turned out that Elmo was insane and that product support would be unpredictable.** My bolding. This can be generalized to all of Trumpist America: who would want to do business with us!!! Why would even American business titans be ‘okay’ with all the unpredictability? Among other things, the federal statistics that they used to be able to rely on for planning will almost certainly be faked to make Dear Leader look better. And Elmo is going to find a way to justify cutting off all Social Security payments–resulting in the market for many products disappearing (due to the new poverty of millions). NOTHING will be reliable. Yeah, I get that “disappearing regulation” is attractive to them. But the price they are going to pay for that one positive seems to far outweigh the benefits. Elmo-level crazy permeating the entire apparatus of government…how can those running businesses think this will work out well for them? ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1574 "2025-02-06T23:02:03Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Everyone keeps ignoring that he’s half Canadian… In what meaningful sense? Elmo was born and raised in South Africa, and there imbued with Apartheid values. His mother was born in Canada but the family moved to Pretoria when she was just two, and she was raised there. In what sense, other than a legalistic one pertaining to citizenship rights, is Elmo “half Canadian”? The raging, racist fool is the exact opposite of any real Canadian I’ve ever known. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1575 "2025-02-06T23:03:57Z")
Canada doesn’t have racists? ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1576 "2025-02-06T23:05:50Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > > [@MrDibble](#): > > > > Everyone keeps ignoring that he’s half Canadian… > > In what meaningful sense? > [@wolfpup](#): > > His mother was born in Canada That might do it… I also hear he puts ~~sugar~~ maple syrup on his ~~porridge~~ poutine. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1577 "2025-02-06T23:14:19Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Canada doesn’t have racists? Reminds me of the joke about the American who finds out that I’m Canadian, and asks, “hey, my cousin Jed lives in Kugluktuk, Nunavut! Do you know him?” No, actually, I don’t know **all** Canadians. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1578 "2025-02-06T23:14:36Z")
One of Elmo’s boy wonders has resigned after a reporter shone light on his posts calling for repealing the Civil Rights Act. > **[Katherine Long (@klong.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/klong.bsky.social/post/3lhjx7usgvc26)** > > I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." > > He just resigned.... ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1579 "2025-02-06T23:22:34Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > No, actually, I don’t know **all** Canadians. Then this: > [@wolfpup](#): > > The raging, racist fool is the exact opposite of any real Canadian I’ve ever known. …doesn’t really mean a fucking thing, does it? ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1580 "2025-02-06T23:24:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > One of Elmo’s boy wonders has resigned after a reporter shone light on his posts calling for repealing the Civil Rights Act. I am seeing “resigned” in all the accounts I’ve glanced at. But I’m wondering if the story will be updated, before too long, to read “promoted to a Cabinet-deputy position.” I mean, this guy is _clearly_ simpatico with both Elmo and the chimp-with-a-machine-gun in the Oval office. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/1581 "2025-02-06T23:24:17Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > One of Elmo’s boy wonders has resigned after a reporter shone light on his posts calling for repealing the Civil Rights Act. “You moron, we’re not supposed to announce that part until March! You’re going to ruin everything!!!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=77) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=79)