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).
US plans to automatically register young men for military draft
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#22United 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
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#23>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?
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.
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#24It's just a change to the already mandatory registration. It doesn't mean they are going to call up the draft.
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#25I never registered for the selective service and never faced any consequences. Maybe this is a more efficient means of closing these gaps while simultaneously saving the government tons of money.
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#26I never registered for the selective service and never faced any consequences. Maybe this is a more efficient means of closing these gaps while simultaneously saving the government tons of money.
No student loans? No government job? There are consequences but they're easy to resolve.
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#27Weird we have this technology but not the technology for automatic voter registration, or automatic tax filing...
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). In the event of erroneous registration when there is an active draft, past procedure was to allow time to reply and object, including through court process, so an erroneous registration…
In many countries, having citizenship means you are registered to vote. It is pretty convenient. Just show your ID card and you can vote.
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#28I never registered for the selective service and never faced any consequences. Maybe this is a more efficient means of closing these gaps while simultaneously saving the government tons of money.
No student loans? No government job? There are consequences but they're easy to resolve.
I never had problems with any of those.
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#29United 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
Yes, I suppose it makes no sense to have bases all over the world then.
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#30This 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).
Now all that Social Media, Google account data, online banking info etc. comes home to roost.
Unlike Vietnam, one can no longer hide from government in times of unrest.
Perhaps that's the wake-up call privacy needs.