svelteciderScouting America says transgender kids are still welcome after Pete Hegseth claimed they weren’t
dhorkDoesn’t the SecDef have more important things to do right now? Like fight a war no one but his boss wanted?
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!
That’s it…the Scouts have just declared war on MAGA! Time to bomb the shit out of them! /s
SeeMarkFlyThey will all be together at one place at the Jamboree.
This is what I was saying last Friday when the memo dropped. The memo was a nothing burger. Functionally nothing changed about the program. Hegseth got nothing he wanted.
People online just can’t help themselves from losing their minds. Literally anything can make people lose their minds. A headline could be “Hegseth declare that all banana splits served to troops be gendered as male” and y’all would lose your minds like clockwork.
“Hegseth declare that all banana splits served to troops be gendered as male”
Yeah, I would absolutely take issue with the head of a government institution saying something like that. That is a bonkers thing to say as a public official and should invoke some kind of mental health check.
I’m aware Hegseth is just posturing for brownie points with this Scouts thing, but this kind of behavior should not be normalized. I still remember when Howard Dean lost his bid to be a presidential candidate because he got too excited during a speech.
Yeah, I would absolutely take issue with the head of a government institution saying something like that.
Yeah. He knows that. That’s exactly why he does it. How do y’all not know their playbook by now? There are only two plays.
That’s the whole playbook.
queermunist she/herThat’s not a playbook. That’s an evil Nazi doing evil Nazi shit and then never letting us forget that he’s an evil Nazi.
But while you should focus on the no. 1 stuff, you are far too easily distracted by the no. 2 stuff.
The Scouts news this weekend is a perfect example. Functionally nothing changed in the program, but they are able to make you go insane like a puppet.
It’s a signal for what they want to do to the program, and the government has a lot of ways to pressure Scouts to make it happen. It’s a distraction until it becomes reality, like all the other evil Nazi shit they do. This is how they signal their future plans, just like forcing us out of sports and forcing us into the wrong bathroom and taking away our identification paperwork and putting us in men’s prisons and then taking away our hormones when we’re in prison. They push push push until they get what they want.
They’re evil Nazis and they want to exterminate all trans people. This is just another thing they want to do, and if we let them, they will.
But I’m just a stupid fucking puppet, what the fuck do I know?
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.
AceFuzzLordI definitely learned some pretty good skills in it, so I would personally recommend, though biased.
Learned first aid, fire starting, safe wood chopping, some decent enough regional wilderness survival skills, and had a good amount of fun along the way. Also learned gun safety in a very important meeting we had that probably should have been either a once every year meeting.
M0oP0oIt really is.
As someone that went through this program, I can’t stress enough that the takeaways here go far beyond marksmanship; the program makes sure of it. Because of merely attempting to get the Riflery merit badge I have a profound respect and safety awareness for guns, and all I used was a .22 bolt-action rimfire, which is about as basic as it gets. At the same time I’m aware that being halfway good at maintaining and using one are skills that must be cultivated and are not easy to do nor intutive. If I had to use a firearm now, I know that I’d have to use it at close range to be any good.
And unlike most americans (according to statistics) know that you should unload the firearm before cleaning, storage, or hiding in an oven. Its the main difference between the states and nations that require a firearms license. Even one day of training before letting people buy a firearm drastically changes outcomes.
Education is key in firearm safety.
Nobody scares me more at the range than adults who rent a gun who clearly have no experience. They’re often simultaneously confident and dangerous. Kids at the range are afraid of getting in trouble so listen to people telling them how to be safe, but adults are the fucking worst.