▲ 815 ▼ Scouting America says transgender kids are still welcome after Pete Hegseth claimed they weren’t (www.advocate.com) submitted 5 months ago by sveltecider@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world 84 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] dhork@lemmy.world 113 points 5 months ago (7 children) Doesn't the SecDef have more important things to do right now? Like fight a war no one but his boss wanted? permalink fedilink source hideshow 14 child comments replies: [–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 48 points 5 months ago Hey! Whoa! That's not true..... .......everyone implicated in the Epstein files wanted this war. permalink fedilink source parent [–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 points 5 months ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago Exactly, they'd always counted on them serving as that. permalink fedilink source parent [–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago Chatgpt is doing the job now so he can focus on culture wars permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 10 points 5 months ago 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) permalink fedilink source parent [–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago 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! permalink fedilink source parent [–] firelight@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago His job is to use the culture war to distract from the class war. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 48 points 5 months ago Hey! Whoa! That's not true..... .......everyone implicated in the Epstein files wanted this war. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 points 5 months ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago Exactly, they'd always counted on them serving as that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago Exactly, they'd always counted on them serving as that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago Chatgpt is doing the job now so he can focus on culture wars permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 10 points 5 months ago 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) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago 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! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] firelight@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago His job is to use the culture war to distract from the class war. permalink fedilink source parent