University of Illinois is a land grant college and because of that all freshmen coming in had to take two years of ROTC.
I did not like it. Shining shoes, polishing brass, marching. Mostly I did not like saluting. If you passed an officer and you were in uniform you had to salute them. If you were looking off the other way and didn't see him they generally let it pass. But one time some clown that I had been looking the other way on a few times called me out on it. Chewed me out a bit. Fucker. I changed my route so that I never passed him again but still. Fucker.
Anyway in the early days of the blog Beagles and I frequently debated the Vietnam war and I was going on about My Lai or something about being ordered to shoot people and Beagles said you didn't have to obey an unlawful order.
What? I had never heard of that. I admit that I was a little skeptical, like is Sarge going to let you get away with that, but Beagles said if he didn't like it you could appeal it all the way up.
Well I was still skeptical but just the fact that there was such a rule and that rank and file enlisted men were told about it impressed me quite a bit.
And now we have had a group of vets making a statement to our soldiers that they do not have to obey an unlawful order.
And the prez is saying that it's treason and reminding us that death is the penalty for treason, and his toadies are all lining up to back him up on his bold threat.
Fuckers.
So did you hear that the Texas gerrymander was given the thumbs down by the judiciary?
Okay every state gerrymanders, some more, some less. We have a census every ten years and then according to that data new districts are mapped out. Of course most states cheat but that is the rules.
But at Trump's behest Texas did it at the halfway mark. Dirty pool. In response California has voted to join in the dirty pooling, you know, to make things nice and even like.
But now Texas' map has been thrown out. So will California drop their remap. Not bloody likely. Well you know that would be complicated because a lot of changes will have to be made and that will cost money and maybe be unconstitutional and time is short and they may not be able to make the change before the election and because those Republican fuckers have been punching below the belt for a long time and it's time they got a taste of their own medicine.
But should California drop their map. Absolutely. One man, one vote is like basic Man. Gerrymandering fucks with that, makes it so that the votes of the many are meaningless and discourages people from taking part in the democracy.
If it were up to me I am a little sorry to admit that I would let the California remap stay, because well I know if that if the shoe was on the other foot the Republican's would go all in for gerrymandering.
But that's me. I admit I am pretty partisan. But how do the American people feel about this?
A majority of Americans support partisan map-drawing
Percentage of Americans who support redrawing congressional districts to neutralize the other party — and those who support doing so to gain a midterm advantage.
So what do you think about that?
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