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This works well and we don't have any voting fraud here.

How do you know you don't have any voting fraud?

but republicans have mostly won on the issue.

Not while an election-swinging share of states don't have it.

You could say they've won to the extent they realistically can, but that's different.

And I have a value disagreement with the people like that: No, having one's interests represented in government is not a human right.

And, if it were a human right, it would follow that we urgently need some Congresscritters pumping up astrology, others fighting to recriminalize adultery, others defunding traditional medicine and subsidizing homeopathy and acupuncture, and still others demanding free alcohol for all teenagers. People's interests (as they see them) are very diverse.

Or if they're inside a spoiler block, so you can look at them if you want and ignore them otherwise.

Hopefully there are on this site, at least.

This, especially given the Antonine Plague that struck during Marcus Aurelius's reign. It might've killed a quarter of the Empire, population it never had a chance to gain back afterwards. The Empire couldn't bounce back after Commodus's tyranny because it had just been seriously weakened.

You're right. The important part was that voluntarily stepped down from office. And, given that he historically died before Adam's first (and only) term was finished, I think it was very important that he stepped down when he did rather than wait and die in office.

But making that argument is pretty difficult and involves a set of tools to prove it that were, until recently, unavailable to the homeschooling crowd.

A lot of the tools were there back in 1955, in a bestselling book.

Scott hosted an ACC about circumcision several years ago, where IMO the pro- side came out stronger.

That would also kill this site, and whatever

They deprive themselves, their children, and their grandchildren of the benefits of a greater family community, and for what? To preserve their free time so they may pursue degenerate hobbies?

First, there're other ways to have a greater family community: I know a family who lives close to their cousins and has a good community with them, despite their being only two siblings.

Second, do you claim that all hobbies are degenerate? If not, can you substantiate the claim that most parents of <4 children are specifically pursuing degenerate hobbies?

(Third, before we think about having children, perhaps the dating market needs fixing. But yeah, that's another topic, however personal it might feel to me.)

Among other problems, what counts as "the people"? Do "the people" even have a coherent enough viewpoint for someone to be their ideological enemy?

If we can build them cheaply, yes. Perhaps I should look closer, but I haven't been convinced. Land for tunnels isn't as expensive, but whole new costs would show up for excavation and support.

This's a noble dream, but it's the same dream I've heard about from boosters of self-driving cars. What advantage do the tunnels add? They'll help prevent congestion aboveground, but the whole mechanism for making them cheap is making them narrow - so a two-lane road aboveground will be just as useful as a two-lane tunnel underground.

(And that's if the tunnel can be made cheap, which I seriously doubt.)