This one is worth reading from beginning to end, every sentence.

[erickasimone@mastodon.social]

@inthehands why are we talking civil war instead of removal from office.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@ErickaSimone ask Congress, I guess

[nobrainnopain@social.tchncs.de]

@inthehands it IS ALREADY civil war, no simulation required.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@nobrainnopain
True, but sort of misses the point of the article (and of sharing it)

[jwz@mastodon.social]

@inthehands I mean, I appreciate the politics of it but the meat of this article is "dude this is just like what happened in my D&D game".

[sysadmin1138@ngmx.com]

@jwz @inthehands I can say that the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities has radically increased the frequency I see the "Heh. Wait until they boot down the wrong door. People up there have A LOT of guns." comment.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@jwz
I mean, yes…and? When a model’s predictions agree with observations, that’s always interesting — especially when the model was developed before events occurred — and a bunch of domain experts working out the hypotheticals as an RPG is honestly a much better model that some of the BS I’ve heard

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@ErickaSimone @inthehands Because the former is what is happening, not the latter, so we're talking about it.
We can talk about a lot of things that should happen, but we should prepare for other things, too.

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@ErickaSimone @inthehands
***read the article.*** it explains exactly that.

[jwz@mastodon.social]

@inthehands Ok but elevating "wargame roleplay" to the level of a "model" or "simulation" is... a lot. It has all the rigor of the Game of Thrones writers' room, except the latter probably had a bigger budget.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@jwz
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I take it as “a bunch of people with expertise were just musing about this, and then it happened.” If they want to publish a research paper, I’ll get on them about the rigor. (And again, this really does beat the validity of some of the reasoning that people dress up in quantitative fancy clothes and call rigorous!)