Discussion

US plans to automatically register men for military draft eligibility

hunglee2: United States is immune from conventional military attack, the only purpose of mass conscription is to create an expeditionary for invading other countries. You have to wonder whether this may be for Canada / Greenland at some point

RaSoJo: >The new rule, proposed by a government agency, would see men being registered automatically rather than being asked to do so themselves within 30 days of their 18th birthday.Honest question: Why is there no such auto registration for women?

wg0: War hysteria is on peak. [0][0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/germany-w...

throw1224: colonizers vs terrorists. world looses nothing

voidUpdate: Will trans men and women be automatically registered too? Since the US military has previously kicked out all trans people

k310: What if my name is Claude? Am I exempt?

toast0: Women are currently not required or allowed to register for selective service. It doesn't make sense to automatically register them for something they're not allowed to register for.

giantg2: This isn't as big of a deal as people are hyping it up to be. This (and things like including women) has been talked about for a while now. Men have been required to register for selective service during all recent times. This just saves you the trouble of going to the post office to fill out the form (or maybe it's online finally).

austin-cheney: It would require an extremely unpopular change of law. I also believe women should be available for conscription.

weinzierl: Not sure about US but since another comment linked to an article about Germany, there you cannot avoid conscription by changing gender.

kotaKat: Weird we have this technology but not the technology for automatic voter registration, or automatic tax filing...

toast0: Draft registration is compulsory based on residency; registering someone in error has no consequences unless there is a draft, which seems unlikely (no draft since Vietnam, large differences in how the US carries out war since then). Not registering has potentially life long consequences that you may not be able to fix after you age out of registration; moving responsibility off of young men and onto the government seems fair.Voting has eligibility requirements (citizenship, felony status depending on jurisdiction of offense) and registering someone in error could induce them to vote while inelligible, which is a serious offense.Automatic tax filing might be nice for easy situations, but there's lots of things the IRS doesn't know and can't realistically know. Like how much capital improvements did you do on your house, and maybe even how much did you pay for your house ... whenever the IRS doesn't know the cost basis, they helpfully assume it is zero and send you a big tax bill... Still for w-2 + 1099s with cost basis reported, it could be easier.

elAhmo: Nations should be led by example, someone who is a draft dodger shouldn't be allowed to become a president.Yet, here we are.

soco: Maybe because according to the same government philosophy a woman's place is in the kitchen or something?

schnitzelstoat: It's just a change to the already mandatory registration. It doesn't mean they are going to call up the draft.

InfiniteLoup: >It doesn't mean they are going to call up the draft.Are you aware of the concept of "boiling the frog"?2027: "It's just calling up the draft. It doesn't mean they are going to be sent to the frontline."

hebelehubele: You can't vote, but you can die for Israel.

nathanaldensr: I wish this were hyperbolic. Sadly, the memes have become reality (was it always reality?)

srean: If enough people at position of influence fear that a war is coming, the fear itself will realize the anticipated event. Preemptive strikes will be the trigger.There is some truth to, what was it, Soros' reflexivity.

sublinear: > A vast majority of US states and territories also automatically register men for selective service when driver's licenses are issued.I think a lot of people either (understandably) forgot or didn't pay attention to the details of when they got their driver's license, or we have a bot problem spreading toxic propaganda.The majority of men are already registered. I agree this is not controversial.

cyanydeez: usually things are controversial in context.its bizarre when people act like the preceding day, week, month, etc has no bearing on the weight of activities. same with who makes the decisions and their biasesif you want to present the history of why now, go ahead but acting like a gollygeewhiz LLM about it is bizzare and incurious.

Simulacra: Then Clinton would've never been president, and where would the fun have been in that ??

chistev: Is this democratic?

apothegm: Democratic means giving all citizens a say in government. What are you trying to convey with the word?