Automatic draft, but notvoter registration...

I might catch hate for this but I never understood why it wasn't automatic the entire time since it's illegal to not register.

You're already legally required to manually register with the selective service if you are male and you turn 18.

Why not just introduce legislation to end that requirement altogether.

This will definitely get the kids voting Republican.

GOP 2024: We want you to die.

Remember kids, you can be a draft dodger and be president 😎👉👉

So people can be automatically registered for the draft, but not automatically registered to vote? Seems like bullshit.

Disagree, just make the draft also affect women so it's not sexist

For one, I think this was already required. I remember having to enroll in selective service.

For two though, whoever calls another draft is dead in the water. It's commonly accepted that starting an actual draft is political suicide.

That said, it would be nice if we could codify that and ban the draft.

Fully automated luxury war slavery

Some folks inherit star-spangled eyes

Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord

And when you ask 'em, "How much should we give?"

Ooh, they only answer, "More! More! More!" Yo

Fuck the draft. Dodge the draft.

Seems like a pretty good Common Sense legislation really. You already have to register by law so making it automatic would be easier for all of us and avoid anyone getting in trouble for something stupid. I don't see a downside to this. I would like to see it apply to voting registration too however.

Technically, the USA already required you to sign up for the draft right around the time you received your Social Security Card. The draft has not been used since 1973 and earlier. So this basically has no adverse effect. Even if a draft happened all the same people who would have been drafted before will be drafted now.

I'm for this. Don't vote for war mongers when you or your kids or grandkids could be drafted for war.

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:

1. Selective service continues to exist and is only used if there's an existential threat to the country
2. 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.