When politicians redraw congressional district maps to favor their party, they may secure short-term victories. But those wins can come at a steep price — a loss of public faith in elections and, ultimately, in democracy itself.

  • shane@feddit.nl
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    15 hours ago

    Rome was never a democracy. Rome didn’t have a single war that made it hegemonic. Sorry this account is just fiction.

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      15 hours ago

      I refered to the republic as democracy to oversimplify the explanation, putting aside the pedantry.

      And if you didn’t know what Rome’s war with Carthage was about, it was vying who will become the hegemon in the Mediterranean. Sorry you didn’t know history.

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        11 hours ago

        The Punic Wars were another step in the endless grinding of the Romans against every region bordering their territories. Yes both Carthage and atomen were expanding into each other’s sphere of influence, but I don’t agree that either side considered it a struggle for ultimate power.