This is like your boss finding shit to do when there’s nothing to do.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Imagine thinking it’s true.

    The Boy Scouts of America had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century by way of multiple sexual abuse scandals, a dwindling membership, and repeated bankruptcy.

    This isn’t DEI, it’s a desperate appeal for more warm bodies in the program to shore up a dying movement.

    It’s BAD in the sense that Scouting has largely become (arguably always had been) an MLM run by and for the benefit of a few connected business savvy insiders. And drawing in more grist for the mill only delays the inevitable failure of this corrupt and sclerotic institution.

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      7 hours ago

      It’s BAD in the sense that Scouting has largely become (arguably always had been) an MLM run by and for the benefit of a few connected business savvy insiders.

      Could be worse: could be Girl Scouts.


      Seriously though, if both Girl Scouts and “Scouting America” suck, is there some other alternative (short of not participating in a scouting-like organization at all)?