Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Republican|North Carolina District 8
Mark Harris
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Voting Record — 497
Yes75%
No24%
Present0%
Not Voting0%
Party align93%
Cross-party1%
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Mark Harris
U.S. RepresentativeRepublicanNorth Carolina District 8
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Mark's ATmosphere Activity
20 recent posts · 14 sponsored · 69 cosponsored
Recent ATmosphere posts, sponsorships, and cosponsorships.
You can't spell antisemite without met! But you also can't spell semite without met. So it's hard to know what to think.
Understood; my argument was not with you.
So to return to my point--which, if you reread it, was not "games are bad"--people whose PRIMARY growing-up narrative experience is with games sometimes struggle with other forms of narrative. You're free to disagree, but not to disqualify my experience of talking/listening to those people.
In a narrative game, you are largely enacting something rather than simply observing it. The dissonance btw you and your avatar may be interesting or may barely exist, but in either case it is materially different from the experience of entering a story over which you have no control or authorship.>
Historically, do most players consider themselves to be the default good guys in the games they’re playing? I seem to remember reading a great deal about how the choices players had to make in The Last of Us subverted that. Was the idea that there was something to subvert inaccurate?
Of course there are counter-examples. If there weren’t examples of what I’m talking about, then you wouldn’t need to call them counter-examples.
And if your idea of narrative derives not primarily from books or movies or TV shows but from games in which you ARE the main character, then main characters who are not behaving the way you imagine you would are really going to baffle you. That's how we get to "It's bad that Dr. Robby turned mean!"
I'll just add that if the way you're taught to read texts when you're young is predicated entirely on "relatability" and right v. wrong rather than on empathetic leaps of imagination and the exploration of mixed motives, you're not going to be well prepared to encounter icky things like ambiguity.
"Social identity" and "fan spaces" are completely different concepts in the internet age than they were during most of the 20th century, before fans could communicate with one other daily or hourly in ongoing, publicly visible forums.
Right?! Of all the shows! I was so struck by the "Nobody knows who Noah Wyle is" section because it really brought home to me that what you and I think of as a "traditional" show is actually not part of a tradition that that set of viewers has experienced.
A very astute (and upsetting!) piece that touches on four scary cultural trends: 1) The demand for spelled-out moral clarity in stories 2) A growing inability to understand different types of narratives 3) The "customer's always right" version of fandom 4) The growth of fandom as a social identity.
The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins is nakedly an excuse for the 30 Rock team to make jokes about whatever they want to at lightning speed, and I mean that as an unreserved recommendation. Second season, please!
Thank you so much for reading it and for the kind words!
Maybe at the FAILING NEW YORK TIMES!
I know Survivor can't turn back the clock to before the invention of reality-competition TV, but one thing it has to do is recognize that the vibe of "Doing this show for the third time will definitely boost my brand" is the death of rooting interest. Who cares which of those people wins $1 million?
People have forgotten that the first truly revolutionary TV moment of the 2000s was Sue Hawk turning to the two finalists 26 years ago and basically saying, I fucking hate both of you and here's why. They were all starving and tired and PISSED. It was not collegial and huggy. It was riveting.
Extended cameo of note on the season premiere of Hacks tonight!
And don't even get me started on the whole growing "Uncle Jeff"/"Mister Jeff" thing.
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Voting History497 total votesExpandCollapse
Voting History
497 total votes
Recent roll calls with party-majority context so it is easier to scan how this member tends to vote.
| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-17 | H.R. 6703 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-17 | H.R. 6703 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-17 | H.R. 3616 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-17 | H. Con. Res. 64 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-17 | H. Con. Res. 61 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-17 | H. Res. 953 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-17 | H. Res. 953 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 3632 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 3632 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 4371 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 4371 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-16 | H. Res. 951 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H. Res. 951 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 3187 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-15 | S. 284 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2025-12-12 | H.R. 3668 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-12 | H.R. 3668 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 2550 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H. Res. 432 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3898 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3898 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3383 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3383 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3383 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3383 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | NO | ✕ | Failed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3638 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H.R. 3628 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-11 | H. Res. 939 (119th) | Kill the motion | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-10 | H. Res. 432 (119th) | Motion to Discharge | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-10 | S. 1071 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-10 | S. 1071 (119th) | Motion to Commit | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-10 | H. Res. 936 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-10 | H. Res. 936 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-10 | H.R. 1676 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-09 | S. 356 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-04 | H.R. 1049 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-04 | H.R. 1069 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-03 | H.R. 1005 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-03 | H.R. 4305 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-03 | H.R. 2965 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-02 | H. Res. 916 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-02 | H. Res. 916 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-02 | H.R. 4423 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-01 | H.R. 5348 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 1949 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 3109 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H. Res. 893 (119th) | Motion to Refer | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 6019 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 4058 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 5107 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.