I recall successfully renewing my registration several times online before, but now they want a phone number and they are pushing some weird government smartphone app “to handle your government todo items”?
Welcome to fascism.
C’mon dude. ACTUAL fascism is taking shape in several countries across the globe right now.
This registration this is BULLSHIT. I won’t argue that. But to say it’s fascism is like screaming at a jewish guy that his store policy makes him hitler.
It’s a bit much for that situation.
One notion of fascism is gaining control to information by eradicating privacy and using that information to enforce control over the individual.
I don’t even like using the website for things like this (in part because i have to spend 5-10 minutes tweaking my browser’s privacy settings to get any government site to work). I just went to an office and did it in person this year. I’m in Kansas. I hope doing this in person is always an option, at least.