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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

WTF does the Pentagon have to do with the BSA.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lots of fundamentalists see it as rotc for children and thus a military branch much like the Hitler youth and thus they want segregation. Girls are brownies boys are scouts, boys are Hitler-Jugend girls are Bund Deutscher Mädel.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Christ. Can’t people just have fun camping, tying knots, and doing a little community service?

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Fascists don't lie the common people doing anything that isn't for them so..... No?

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[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 4 points 7 months ago

They are involved in every Organisation that is into molesting children

[–] Fourth@mander.xyz 7 points 7 months ago

Telegraph is an absolute shitrag

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

the title says scouts. girl scouts are scouts. ipso facto they want boys in the girl scouts?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The scouts they are talking about is the org Scouting of America. Girl Scouts is a separate entity and I don't think they get any kind of subsidies from the military?

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hey Democrats, here's how to spin it:

"THEYRE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY YOUR THIN MINTS."

It doesn't need to be accurate. Get on their level.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Girl scouts sell thin mints; Scouts (formerly BSA or Boy Scouts of America) doesn't seem to have a unified strategy for fundraising. Cub scouts does popcorn.

The cookies will remain regardless of Pedonald and Pete Hegseth's culture war nonsense - unless they start going after Girl Scouts for allowing trans...

But to your point, I guess - to the mushbrained types, the details don't really matter. Most people don't even know that girls are in Scouts or that BSA changed their name to Scouting America. They also don't know that Girl Scouts are entirely separate...

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

It doesn't need to be accurate. Get on their level.

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