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[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Oh, and it should be elected by the state legislatures again.

I have never understood why anybody wants this.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Oh, and it should be elected by the state legislatures again.

I have never understood why anybody wants this.

The idea was that the Senate would be a body that acted to preserve the power of the States and help keep the Federal government weak.  Of course, people who think having a weak Federal government is a bad idea don't like the idea of a Senate.

I'm aware of this but I really don't understand why giving that power back to state legislatures should somehow weaken the Federal government, as opposed to just making it less accountable. The amount of corruption and wheeling-dealing that went on over Senate seats before the 17th Amendment...if you think it's bad now, those days scarcely bear thinking about.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I would prefer a House of Lords with life-time terms passed from father to first-born son.  If the line were extinguished through death or only female progeny, the Lords could elect a replacement from among the lesser nobles.

Why do you hate cognatic primogeniture?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I would prefer a House of Lords with life-time terms passed from father to first-born son.  If the line were extinguished through death or only female progeny, the Lords could elect a replacement from among the lesser nobles.

Why do you hate cognatic primogeniture?

Isn't it obvious?  It involves female rulers.

Yeah, that's what makes it better than agnatic, not worse.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Why do you hate cognatic primogeniture?

Isn't it obvious?  It involves female rulers.

Yeah, that's what makes it better than agnatic, not worse.

Good lord man, where were you raised?  In a monastery?  Have you not met any of the female?

I was raised by my mother and my aunt. An entirely disproportionate number of my friends are women. They're not a monolithic mass.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I was raised by my mother and my aunt. An entirely disproportionate number of my friends are women. They're not a monolithic mass.

Well, I thought about making a fat joke there, but I'll confine myself to pointing out that they all want to castrate you buddy.

1. No they don't.
2. Only one of the people I'm thinking of here is actually fat, and she's my best friend.
3. Even if they did want to castrate me I wouldn't particularly mind, since it's halfway done already just by dint of my personality. If they wanted to castrate someone else, depending on the person I might help them.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

3. Even if they did want to castrate me I wouldn't particularly mind, since it's halfway done already just by dint of my personality. If they wanted to castrate someone else, depending on the person I might help them.

You're the Perfect Man!

I guess you could look at it that way. The other way would be to say that I've reached the point of being a man in biology only. Either way, I'm content.

And it still doesn't have anything to do with women in positions of political power. I might actually support the introduction of incorporeal hereditaments into systems that don't currently have them but only as long as they were cognatic.