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If there’s one thing I’m not remotely doomer about, it’s the draft, it is impossible for the United States to implement a sucessful draft, it’s not possible even if there was a popular war
That doesn’t mean they can’t try and frankly part of me hopes they do; it would become one of the greatest generators of mass revolutionary energy in American history and simultaneously collapse multiple institutions within the military and security apparatus
Barrack riots, millions strong student protests, fugitive networks springing up everywhere, labor shortages, shootouts, mass flight, generational mass radicalization
It would be the single biggest mistake the capitalist class ever made; it would make imperialism real for the average American
it would become one of the greatest generators of mass revolutionary energy in American history and simultaneously collapse multiple institutions within the military and security apparatus
This is why no other president after Vietbam war has been stupid enough to do it. Trump could be though, and like you I hope he does.
Barrack riots, millions strong student protests, fugitive networks springing up everywhere, labor shortages, shootouts, mass flight, generational mass radicalization
Part of me is
and part of me has absolutely no faith in the American public to ever get off their asses and do anything.
It would also give the general US population firearms, tactics, and intelligence training.
I’d get drafted let them train me for a job. Free rent, free food, a little pay, some exercise. Then I would just leave, maybe frag some office on the way out, take a cool gun with me. I’d get to tease liberals I was a vetren. It’d be great
Go ahead. Give me combat training and a rifle piggy.
Doesn’t mean they’re activating it. But I wouldn’t be surprised if this is just more personal data collection.
Oh, nice! That means they have the infrastructure to do it for voter registration, too!
Right?
That’s fine I’ll just go to prison if they raise the age to 40+, I’d rather 5 years in jail then being ordered to shoot on an Iranian family.
So if you never signed up for the selective service you won’t be drafted? Cause they make it sound like they’re drafting from the selective service not the male population at large.
Also yeah I’ll take 5 years in jail over murdering civilians every day of the week.
Yeah, the selective service is the draft mechanism. Thats the list they draft people from.
This is just making it so that instead of just being required to register, you’re registered automatically. Honestly it means basically nothing, it’s a mechanical change that just means people don’t have to sign a piece of paper.
Also yeah it’s crazy to me that there’s ever been a single person that doesn’t choose prison time over being drafted. 5 years in prison is way better than dying in the mud after committing crimes against humanity.
Yeah like, prison is literally not only safer for myself but any person I would’ve encountered in Iran or Lebanon. I dunno, our perspective is definitely biased but even so the math is just better with the prison option.
If you go to prison for draft dodging you are also pretty likely to be well regarded among the general population.
Gross. I didn’t sign up for the draft until I went to university, it was mandatory for admissions. But no matter what you can always burn your draft card and refuse to fight
In theory registration was optional in the US, however if you’re a male that’s unregistered you can’t get financial aid for college among other impacts. So it was kind of an echo of what we already have, the poverty draft.
This actually is nothing new. Some years back they already did this when you register to vote.
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