He's Encouraging Himself

Adam: "Simon has jwest on his side. He wins the internetz."

First I thought, wait! Their styles are so similar, is Simon a jwest sock? And he's encouraging himself.

Second, I thought, oh, I see. Simon is below jwest in the pecking order, so jwest encourages him to keep Simon around to make jwest actually look better by contrast.

Third, I thought, the second plan does not necessarily obviate the first ploy.

Fourth, I denounced myself for my hive-minded attitude toward these two valuable AoS commenters, and I would like to encourage them both to hang around because they make us other folks who are low on the totem pole (and not certified handshake-knowing clique members) look better by comparison.

Fifth, I need to go do some things now, obviously. Other things.