cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/42453153
Congress requires the Pentagon to support the scouting program’s Jamboree, a gathering of thousands of young scouts held every three or four years. The U.S. military lends trucks, ambulances and medical teams, and puts on aviation and skydiving demonstrations, all at no cost to the Scouts. For the military, it’s both a training exercise and an opportunity to recruit highly motivated, civic-minded kids.
But the law includes an exemption: the Secretary of Defense can withhold support if he determines providing it would be “detrimental to national security.”
Drafts of a report to Congress obtained by NPR show Hegseth invoking that clause — accusing Scouting America of fostering “gender confusion.”
His memo to the House and Senate Armed Services committees argues the Scouts have strayed from their mission to “cultivate masculine values.” It also claims that with international conflicts and a tight budget, sending troops, doctors and vehicles to a 10-day youth event would harm national security by diverting resources from border operations and protecting U.S. territory.
Well this is concerning. It’s never a good sign when there is this level of infighting in an authoritarian regime. Usually an indicator that there are too many true believers in the top echelons of government. True believers are generally the ones most likely to commit atrocities in the name of their cause
So proud our government is focusing on all the important things that help improve our quality of life.
Translating Drunk fox news moron… … …
Beep beep boop: “our republican pedophiles do not like it when people put on the wrong clothing and this is a matter of national security”
“tight budget” That’s a Not The Onion post all on its own…
They should outlaw the Catholics if it’s only about boy rape.
I was a Scout and I never had leaders that were inappropriate thank God, but you best believe that it was basically grooming you for the army. The amount of religious stuff they shove down your throats too, I think we can do better than the Scouts for kids. Let it die
We don’t push anything faith related. Our program focuses on awareness of the environment, community outreach, and most of all… Camping!
I’m pretty sure we pay for all of it ourselves. They can keep their “funding”. It doesn’t reach us anyway.
Yep, same here, we never had any of that religious shit or military shit. It was all about awareness for the environment, community outreach, hiking, climbing, camping, caving. We did a ton, and our leaders where all dads who had their own kids in the program. Everyone of them were previous eagle scouts and had a lot of certs to make it a ton of fun for everyone. It sucks that the program no longer seems like that anymore.
The program is still exactly like that, except now the pedos are kicked out.
I’m pretty sure your experience wasn’t typical of most troops.
That’s fair, their leaders are generally inappropriate.
Jamborees are also held in other countries and for some magical reason they don’t need the military or are even opposed to be associated with military.
So this could turn out to be a good thing that prevents kids to be raised militant, even if it causes logistic problems at first.
“For the military… its an opportunity to recruit… kids” is a hell of a statement. Hot take but maybe the military shouldnt be recruiting children
TBF though, that is exactly why Baden-Powell created the Boy Scouts.
Your take is correct, but not comprehensive for the situation. Scouting is likely to be banned on all bases.
To be replaced with the Trump Youth or something to that effect.
Why not just skip the middle man, and bring back the hitler youth?
I mean, that IS the vibe they’re going for, right?
Because he has to have his name on it to satisfy his narcissism.
Imagine putting your children near anything with that rapists name on it on purpose. That alone should qualify for child endangerment if not outright abuse.
Nothing makes me think masculine, military values like catty drama queen and child predator donald trump.
Separating the scouts from the military is probably doing the right thing for the exact wrong reasons.
I mean, that was also the point of the Hitler Youth…
My favorite part is how they are claiming it’s because military is so weak that a couple of vehicles and a staffed medical tent will cause it to collapse.
My favorite part is claiming such horse shit on the heels of dragging every general on planet Earth to Washington DC just so he can masturbate in front of them.
I’m sure the local for departments would step up. They do for our larger, local events.
Scoutmasters have been attacking boy friendly spaces for decades
“boy-friendly spaces”… how fuckin’ creepy is that phrase.
The number of leaders among reservists, guardsmen and organizations like the VFW or American Legion who would fight for the opportunity to “relieve” active-duty units of the “burden” of helping with such events will probably be more bothersome to manage than whatever “lack of resources” shits-geth is expecting to inflict.
It wasn’t enough to try and fail to get the Marines and Army to destroy our most populous cities, to the point they “had-to” allow swastika tattoos in the Coastguard and literally bribe people(to an absurd degree) into ICE, now they’re going after the civilian institutions that helped swell the military’s ranks for decades.
It’s like they’re trying to train new leopards to bite thier own faces off, but like “when you behead me, a real man would do it with the backside of a Bowie-knife.” Real clown-car antics from people that won’t even have a friend to drive the car, let alone people to fill it, when their bullshit’s all played-out.
Chaos, division and a weakened America is the goal. Why do you think all of the major MAGA social influencers are foreigners.
Shit the new “America First” movement trying to replace MAGA as it fades is pushed by RT News.
Unfortunately American citizen have been conditioned to accept propaganda without critical thinking. So we are especially susceptible to it.
They should cut support because of the boy-man-love friendly spaces. Boy Scouts is LOUSY with pedophiles and I don’t think it’s saveable at this point.
Not in our group.
Reader context: you’re out of date
I hope im wrong.
Every organization that involves kids is a pedo magnet. Predators go where their pray is.
The safety of the kids is down to the parents and leaders because the BSA and council will revoke your charter in a heart beat if they think anyone will sue.
In my opinion and experience kids are as safe as any other organization.
The amount of background checks and mandatory training I have to do every year for every program that I coach or lead is crazy.
Boy Scouts is LOUSY with pedophiles
Just don’t say that around Trump if you want support to be cut.
Nah. Trump wouldn’t understand that phrase. He would think being “lousy” with pedophiles means pedophiles face consequences there.
He would take it to mean “It’s lousy FOR pedophiles”. Because trump is the only stable genius that doesn’t understand how words work.
Doing something about it is probably how they made it onto the shit-list.
No it isn’t
