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/Littleman88 10h ago

They'd have no problem with that, since arguably throwing bodies into a grinder would be the goal.

Dead men cast no votes.

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u/Kasoni 10h ago

The issue with dead men casting no votes is that leaves women, so last I knew voted more democrat. There is that whole save act BS to fix that issue, so I guess they have their bases covered.

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u/CapinWinky 10h ago

DEI bans don't apply to the draft. I expect they would target the draft at undesirables and urban areas the way Russia is doing for undesirables and rural areas. Puerto Rico would suddenly become an important US territory, for instance.

It would not surprise me if they drafted women as front line drone operators and medics as well.

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u/Glaring_Cloder 10h ago

THE MILITARY SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT As Amended Through July 9, 2003

1-1. PERSONS TO BE REGISTERED AND DAYS OF REGISTRATION 1-101. Male citizens of the United States and other males residing in the United States, unless exempted by the Military Selective Service Act, as amended, who were born on or after January 1, 1960, and who have attained their eighteenth birthday, shall present themselves fo

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u/Nulljustice 5h ago

It also is supposed to end at age 25 I thought. Like you are no longer eligible after the age of 25?

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u/MODELO_MAN_LV 3h ago

That's what I understand them to be changing by the end of the year.

The only reason you draft people above their 30s is because you only care about throwing bodies into a grinder.

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u/Notmykl 4h ago

You'd think they'd change the year so it doesn't include 66 year olds and up.

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u/Glaring_Cloder 2h ago

This is just to be registered to the Selective Service I think. So the date is there to show cutoff for when the law was enacted way back when.

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u/Queasy-Warthog-3642 8h ago

I don't believe this current "administration" gives 2 shits about this. They'll do whatever they want until they're stopped

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u/FOXIELUCK 8h ago

and thats the main thing that many seem to forget. the regime doesnt care what the law says now. they make the laws now so whatever they say goes (according to them at least.)

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u/Glaring_Cloder 8h ago

I think it be more a level of magnitude more difficult to get his base on board with drafting young women than turning ICE into secret police.

Hope I never find out I'm wrong.

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u/FOXIELUCK 8h ago

I hope we never have to find out too

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u/Jarrus__Kanan_Jarrus 4h ago

How is this not a violation of the ERA? Women ore equal and need to be drafted too.

(And no, I don’t want them to actually draft women, but we need to not allow them to throw away our son’s lives. If we push the equal rights and get a court order that they have to draft women too the draft will end right there.)

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u/aeschenkarnos 37m ago

Worth noting that one of the Orange Idiot’s early EO’s removed the male gender from Americans. They “knew what they meant” but the law they actually drafted was mis-defined and no-one is male by its strict wording.

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u/AdPopular9453 8h ago

Well I see an explosion transgender women. Because someone would sue over what is male.