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House Passes Bill To Automatically Register Young Men for the Draft (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Kinda a nothing burger really. The military doesn't want conscripts unless there's an existential threat to the country.

So there's two scenarios:

Selective service continues to exist and is only used if there's an existential threat to the country
Selective service is eliminated and is re-instated only if there's an existential threat to the country

Option 2 is preferable since it eliminates the cost of a program that will likely never be used again. But it still doesn't eliminate the possibility of a draft since if the country were under an existential threat in the future, legislation can be passed to bring it back. So Option 2 isn't effectively different from Option 1, other than the cost savings.

As it is, selective service is basically just a political talking point, and a way to "own the libs" or whatever. The best way to argue against it is to make an argument around the cost of a program that doesn't really accomplish anything. But the libs take the bait and argue about not wanting to be drafted, which isn't wrong, but that makes the libs look weak in the eyes of many, and it allows Republicans get to make hay about their opposition being weak.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

https://centeronconscience.org/

https://centeronconscience.org/guide-for-co-military/

https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/conscientious-objectors

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Something tells me fragging (the original kind) might have a chance of becoming de rigueur again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I wish they would institute another draft. Whatever party was behind it would be gone inside of the decade.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

That would be nice. It is rather demeaning to sign a paper promising to die for your country when needed, in order to get voting privileges.

[–] anindefinitearticle 6 points 2 months ago

I was given a draft card with my financial aid package for undergrad.

Applying for FAFSA was a required part of the application process for public universities and most private ones, meaning that nearly all amabs applying for college were automatically enrolled by this process…

until they simplified FAFSA in 2020, which I just learned about when acquiring the link above as a citation.

This bill would reinstate and expand automatic enrollment to amabs who don’t need FAFSA or who don’t want to go to college.

So they are trying to change the conditions for automatic enrollment from “has a penis and wants to go to college” (precovid) to just “has a penis”.

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