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Trump forced the Boy Scouts to eliminate the Citizenship in Society badge. Just saying.

• tracker1 8mo ago
  Why turn this into a divisive Trump thing? I'm literally talking about trying to bring the country closer together and the response is just more divisiveness...
  • hedora 8mo ago
    The article is a divisive Trump thing about how we cannot have free media anymore because the FCC is censoring stuff. Your comment about citizenship and tolerance makes sense, but that's also under direct attack by the Trump administration. They literally just forcefully coerced the scouts into dropping the exact things you are advocating for from their program. There's no real path towards tolerating that and also having a tolerant society. This is the main weakness of liberal democracies, and it's being exploited to tear our institutions down.
    • tracker1 8mo ago
      Being libertarian minded, very classically liberal... I think most of these institutions might not need to have existed in the first place. As an example, public funding for PBS... when all you need to is watch the PBS coverage of the SoTU address to see a perfect example in that it was indeed a partisan organization that shouldn't be getting public funding... even if I don't agree with a lot of Republican positions.
      • hedora 8mo ago
        PBS is no longer government funded. They've also been attacking most private universities and all of the privately held media and computing platforms. As a libertarian, I don't see how you can argue that no private entities should be allowed to have freedom of speech. Also, I wasn't talking about public funding. I was talking about the federal government illegally soliciting bribes and intimidating private organizations into implementing illegal government policies on their behalf.
        • tracker1 8mo ago
          Freedom of speech is fine... my point was they were in fact partisan and deserved to have funding removed, even if you think the govt should fund public tv.
• bigyabai 8mo ago
  I say this as a former First Class scout, the entire thing is a racket. The "point" of Boy Scouts is to make you associate pointless meritocratic flair with actual accomplishment. It is a conditioning and propaganda pipeline with the purpose of stimulating enlistment. The Boy Scouts were not an apolitical fun-fair, which became pretty glaringly obvious when the Army recruiters came by to meet with middle-schoolers. If you didn't enlist, you probably didn't stick around to earn your Eagle scout.
  • tracker1 8mo ago
    I think there's some value basic survival skills, but this is pretty removed from modern scouts. It's mostly a recruitment tool and tbf the shift has been awkward in trying to capture the market that "Girl Scouts" carved out.