I was just considering getting my son into the scouts and this encourages me.
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Eagle Scout here. These asshat politicians need to keep their hands off scouting. It's an awesome organization that gets kids off the screens and teaches them a bunch of cool, outdoorsy skills. Everybody should be encouraged to participate. Our society needs some fresh air.
Eagle scout here as well. I second this. When I was in scouting it was still boy scouts and I was always a bit bothered by the exclusions. So happy to see that the organization is now inclusive and standing by their beliefs.
Now just to get religion out of scouting...
Another Eagle jumping in. It is so clear these clowns know nothing of what scouting is about.
BTW if you're looking to order girl scout cookies consider ordering some from this list of Trans and non-binary scouts: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2026-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies
This person makes a list every year
Idk man. I support trans kids but I don't want to show favoritism. Why is there a list of transkids? Honest question I don't understand. dont parents sell at work and in front of stores and stuff? Would this alienate them from their peers somehow?
Modern scouts sell both in person and online
I'm not sure how it would alienate them. Being different is already alienating.
For sure, thanks for the link.
It's been ages since I had girls scout cookies. My nearest comparison for selling cookies are those old competitive fundraisers school used to do an you get rewards.
It was really competitive at my school
I got a lot of badges when I was a scout. Didn't have to use my penis for any of them.
Your troop didnt teach you how to lash a table together using just your penis? Maybe that was just for Order of the Arrow...
Not even the knot tying badge? I was duped!
/s
.... wait, what? Next are you gonna tell me that the "cocksucking" badge I got from that one scoutmaster is fake?
Maybe.
Come over to this hotel room. Show me what you learned, and I'll assess your skills. Then I can tell you if it was fake.
They said they didn't have to use THEIR penis... (I'm so sorry)
You confuse it with the "self sucking" badge
As a scout in the 90s, I can remember entire summer camps spent discussing Marilyn manson and his missing rib
Same, except it was Ron Jeremy not Marilyn Manson.
That's the first time I've heard that. I think he had too big a belly to bend like that.
That's kinda how he became a porn star. Though I've never seen him without the belly, I've heard that he was skinnier in the '70s when he was doing porn. I really only know him from his role in Orgasmo
I'll never forget how I earned my "not scared in the dark" badge. A penis wasn't involved, but cooked spaghetti.
Obviously you didn't take the fast track program.
Sure, when you were a kid, yeah. They got a badge now for safe cylinder extraction.
As an Eagle Scout, good. They realize that they teach generations of young people how to be good people and stand up when the time calls them to stand up? Do they think we'll stay quiet if they give into fascists?
Doesn't the SecDef have more important things to do right now? Like fight a war no one but his boss wanted?
You'd think so, but I'm sure they have some weird fantasy of transforming the Boy Scouts into the MAGA Youth, and guiding them from scouts, directly into the military's meat grinder.
The most dangerous demographic group for any Dictatorship are Military Age Males. If you don't take control of them, they can be turned into an army against you.
So it's best to filter them early, identify those who will be on your side, and can be properly educated as fuel for the government, and those who look like they could be trouble down the line, can be used as cannon fodder.
Exactly, they'd always counted on them serving as that.
Ah, the SecDef doesn't actually fight a war. He just supports starting one. And then like all richwhitemen in the USA have done, let a whole bunch of impressionable young people do the fighting and dying for him.
Ask how I know!
Hey! Whoa! That's not true.....
.......everyone implicated in the Epstein files wanted this war.
Chatgpt is doing the job now so he can focus on culture wars
Doesn't the SecDef have more important things to do right now?
More important than thinking about children’s genitals?
He’s in the GOP. So no.
On the one hand, yes, but on the other, he doesn’t exactly have the skillset to run any department let alone the DoD(W)
Looks like the DoD / DoW will be cutting its ties with Scouting America then, if what that weirdo said was true.
Maybe they'll start a new organization, not only for Trump fans, but specifically for the Youth. Where have I heard that idea before?
You mean just the Youth that are partial to Trump? His Youth?
They would all be blond little girls. The Bondi Youths.
As ever with this regime, I am not sure if sarcasm won't reflect reality.
Let the little children come to me. And do not forbid them, for such is the kingdom of heaven.
The church is just unrecognizable from how I was raised. But I do suspect it will be a religious push, not a scientific one, that sees us on the other side of all this. That's just how humans do.
That's it...the Scouts have just declared war on MAGA! Time to bomb the shit out of them! /s
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