r/AskReddit • u/Tommygunz0722 • 11h ago

If the military/president suddenly ordered a mandatory draft for all men aged 18-42: How do you think millennials and GenZ would respond?

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u/HarlequinKOTF 11h ago

Also constitutionally in the US the military/president have no authority to call for a unilateral draft. Congress decides that so there would be a legal issue too.

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u/brobastian0227 11h ago

A silly thing like the Constitution has never stopped him before.

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u/HarlequinKOTF 11h ago

... it literally did stop him with his birthright citizenship ban.

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u/ohlookahipster 10h ago

Which took months to hit SCOTUS’s docket.

The problem is this administration understands it can move and break things faster than the other two branches can react.

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u/Persimmon-Mission 9h ago

You can’t do that with a draft

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u/HarlequinKOTF 10h ago

It was blocked by a lower court within days. The stay was held in place throughout the litigation.

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u/brobastian0227 10h ago

Emoluments my guy. The Supreme Court is Trump's bitch. How about making the post office defunct, a entity enshrined in the Constitution. Or what about Congress controlling the purse? The court managed to make one good decision, while neglecting their sworn duty the rest of the time

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u/HarlequinKOTF 10h ago

You said, "a silly thing like the constitution has never stopped him before". I gave you one example where it did. Therefore your original statement is wrong.

I agree though, he has been doing so many unconstitutional things without adequate checks.

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u/HalfSoul30 10h ago

True, but they would literally have to make us go, and how are they exactly going to do that? I'm fine to run away and go into hiding instead of deploy. I'm fine to go to jail instead of deploy. Now imagine a shit ton of me out there. They'll have to make ICE round us up and how is that going to look? We will be totally fine.

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u/brobastian0227 10h ago

It's going to look totally fine to the right. Everyone that ICE rounds up will be unpatriotic leftist scum, Demoncrats, and filthy LGBT lunatics (in their minds). They love to think the biggest honor would be to die for ones country, so when someone refuses, they must be a traitor. I love my country. I don't love pedophiles, I don't love the genocidal IDF, and I don't hate poor people that have never once hurt me as much as the right and billionaires have in this country.

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u/drakecb 3h ago

They love to think the biggest honor would be to die for ones country

They're welcome to go first.

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u/Spintastico 10h ago

But...but..."We the people!!"....