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-Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

“In so far as this mask represents the conception we have formed of ourselves - the role we are striving to live up to - this mask is our truer self, the self we would like to be. In the end, our conception of the role becomes second nature and an integral part of our personality.”

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

Very important to make sure people know they should be playing roles instead of getting confused and rolling dice or something

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ie across both parties there is a growing messy tendency to confuse posts about the territory for the territory

I would say genuinely that I think it might be worth considering stancil discourse in light of the articles that have been written about the Trump administration’s governance by social media content generation

bold statement to make about the next secretary of transportation

I think it’s really worth considering at what point in time the elite consensus changed from “twitter is not real life” to “twitter is the intellectual commons” and what was happening around that time both in politics and on twitter. Elon Musk and white supremacy are in both answers!

what are the social relations between the players in this game? how are responsibilities assigned? how does the game seek to build consensus?

Thank you for posting this. I learned a lot from reading it.

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does your surprise at hearing about the tenor of a post you yourself made on X suggest anything to you about the tenor of discussion X engenders?

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Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

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see, system matters

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as a bonus, you might actually win a bunch of money

Politics Yet to regain the majority, Democrats would need to run more competitively among White voters without a four-year college degree — the mostly widely accepted definition of the working class — than they typically have done in the Trump era.

it’s just so crazy to see it happen in real time

we would be declaring war on two nuclear powers, so this really is only true if they don’t launch in response

Institutional tensions that in some societies can be peacefully settled through negotiation or legal means may in other, less happy lands seek their resolution in the streets." (Linz 1990)

"Even more ominously, in the absence of any principled method of distinguishing the true bearer of democratic legitimacy, the president may use ideological formulations to discredit his foes; institutional rivalry may thus assume the character of potentially explosive social and political strife.

That’s the other conversation the governors should really be having!

I agree that this is the real concern, and I don’t actually see much evidence that the relevant leaders are thinking about what to do in the event that it happens. They really should be. Trump literally already did this one.

renee good was practicing politics the right way

Also this evangelist/flock dynamic helps illuminate why so many GMs are concerned with systemic responses to the specific social problem of “people aren’t engaging with the game in good faith”

I think this post is cogent and gets to a key aspect of the social organization of RP groups but really invites the question of why many of these games are designed around that central GM role, such that it’s necessary for one of the players to take it on for the game to function at all

forgotten may even be too generous, there are several American states that have no historical democratic tradition