Hi, Shrewd!        Login  
Shrewd'm.com 
A merry & shrewd investing community
Best Of PoliticsBest OfAll BoardsThe Shrewd’m WeeklyLearn to InvestHow to Become Shrewd
Search
Shrewd'm.com Merry shrewd investors
Search
Best Of PoliticsBest OfAll BoardsThe Shrewd’m WeeklyLearn to InvestHow to Become Shrewd


The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
Answer this questionContinue to Shrewd'mThis note won't appear again
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (119) |
Author: albaby1 SILVER
SHREWD
  😊 😞

Number: of 84359 
Subject: Re: ELON
Date: 11/18/23 3:31 PM
Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
No. of Recommendations: 14
Where did I say Musk is to be praised for saying terrible things about Jews?

Listen, person behind the character of WiltonKnight/LandySeeSee/EchotaSheeple:

You came on the this board a few hours after Musk said terrible things about Jews, and said you had listened to him and wanted to shake his hand. When pressed, you doubled down on that sentiment and raised a metaphorical toast to him for being "unafraid" to say the terrible things about Jews.

I know that part of the shtick you engage in is deliberate performative vagueness. Your online character - across all your several dopples - is someone who speaks in code, references, and allusion. That character deliberately says things using metaphor and intimations that express tone and opinion, but are unclear and undefined. That way your persona always has a dodge - since the online character never says anything definitive, they can always claim not to have said any particular at all. Because your online character isn't written to have a conversation, to actually engage in real discussion with real people on the internet - just to be provocative.

But what you can't hide as part of your online character are the choices that you make as the author. Your editorial decisions. You chose to make a post about Musk that was laudatory in tone and content immediately after he said horrible things about Jews. And that is deeply revealing about you, author behind all those dopples. Your choice to respond to Musk's loathsome speech by putting words of esteem into your Wilton/Landy/ESheeple character's mouth. All that meta W/L/ES character stuff aside, you - the author - decided to post something nice about Elon Musk because he said terrible things about Jews, to "raise a virtual toast" to Musk for being unafraid to say terrible things about Jews.

You're absolutely right that I cannot control what opinions you have, real person behind these fictional online personas. What I can do is know what those opinions are, not by what your online dopples say, but by the choices that you make in having them say it. And I - like all people - can name as reprehensible your choices that are reprehensible. Your choice to make a laudatory post about Elon Musk's horrible speech about Jews - and your decision to keep lauding his terrible speech about Jews for being "unafraid" - are reprehensible choices.
Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
Print the post
Members reply directly to albaby1 here — and replies get answered. Reading is free; so is joining the conversation. Join Shrewd'm »
This community has written 84,309 posts about US Policy. The article-length ones it recommended most:
It's going to get worse · 33 recs · 2025
G’day Donny · 30 recs · 2026
Old Related Story · 28 recs · 2026
HCR is a national treasure · 27 recs · 2025
Fascism in America · 27 recs · 2025
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (119) |


Announcements
US Policy FAQ
Contact Shrewd'm
Contact the developer of these message boards.

Best Of Politics | Best Of | Favourites & Replies | All Boards | Followed Shrewds | Open Questions | Moving a community