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📉 Boy Scouts membership down 61.3% in two years. 📉

"Membership for the BSA’s flagship Cub Scouts and...
Galvanic stubborn location jewess
  07/02/21
they changed the name to 'Scouts BSA' because they now allow...
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  07/02/21
Shouldn't that essentially double enrollment?
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Ljl
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"The Boy Scouts of America said this week that the orga...
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180! HOpe to see more of it.
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this is even worse than letting in women and fags. holy shit...
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Holy shit
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if this means you have to screw a minority and an ugly chick...
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  03/02/24
*sigh*
Turquoise abode
  03/02/24
Systemic racism
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they got skinsuited
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Mormon church stopped associating with them
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  07/02/21
That was about 20% of their membership, IIRC.
Galvanic stubborn location jewess
  07/02/21
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2018 -- "The Mormon Church has been the largest partici...
Galvanic stubborn location jewess
  07/02/21
and for good reason
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Everyone predicted this. 2013: Boy Scouts ends ban on gay...
carnelian church building fortuitous meteor
  07/02/21
The 2013 Mormons freakout reply was mine.
Galvanic stubborn location jewess
  07/02/21
the poast below pointing out that it's for kids who can't pl...
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  07/02/21
*high five*
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we may never know why BSA died!
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Lots of reasons, but I'm sure Covid didn't help. People don...
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skin suit i saw a bunch of "boy scouts" last we...
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jfc spaceporn
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Clearly not spaceport if troop was 80% girls
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Trying to get dat eagle scout to apply ED to a lower Ivy
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A woke Asian Eagle Scout with good grades and test scores ca...
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  07/02/21
I'm an ES and I don't know if it's ever mattered.
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  03/12/22
"dorky old white guy "troop leader" wearing h...
Heady pea-brained gas station
  07/02/21
You voted for this
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  07/02/21
Maybe it's because of the pandemic stopping all the meetings...
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It's been dropping for 20 years and in total freefall at ter...
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  07/02/21
libs in the fight of their life to blame every trackable dec...
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  07/02/21
Libs also caused the overbroad Covid measures themselves
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  03/13/22
Boy Scouts is a great organization, but when I was growing u...
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  07/02/21
It was definitely for dorks whose parents thought they neede...
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It's a good organization for big dorks though. I wasn't in ...
Heady pea-brained gas station
  07/02/21
It was always the weird nerds at school who did Scouts. That...
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lol way to out yourself as an urban parasite
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I never once heard or saw of anything resembling a “bo...
Swashbuckling Queen Of The Night
  07/02/21
Those of us at school in scouts would never admit it. We&rs...
carnelian church building fortuitous meteor
  07/02/21
I think COVID is responsible for the recent drop, but anothe...
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  07/02/21
I pulled my son from cub scouts this year because it was &qu...
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  07/02/21
Its child abuse to make your kid do this shit. Airsoft on th...
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  07/02/21
letting your kids shoot toy guns is criminal. guns arent toy...
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Rusted rough-skinned garrison stock car
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Boy Scout Camp was the first time I ever shot a real gun. A...
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  07/02/21
Same. No one taught me how to use it, either, which was a lo...
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  03/02/24
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  07/02/21
Scouts was always a bit creepy and lots of boys got molested...
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  07/02/21
Usually it's like that, and the scoutmaster is just one of t...
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Most of the sickos doing the abusing were dads with kids in ...
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it is wise to remember that a lot of kikery goes into how al...
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libs: "Well, we did it!"
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For years and years the Mormons funneled their teen boys int...
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They were unwilling to stand up for their own convictions --...
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I think most people have realized that boy scouts is really ...
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(President of Scouts BSA)
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I would also argue that lack of parent participation is a bi...
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  07/02/21
Goyscouts?
Galvanic stubborn location jewess
  07/02/21
Don't girls have girl scouts still? Why did they need to int...
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  07/02/21
(nazi)
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the scouting curriculum (minus some fucking dei badge) is th...
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imho, yes. it's best done in groups--the patrol method, but...
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get everything on the eagle list. wildnerness survival. ...
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180
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180. it's really one of the most important american books e...
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most of the camps around here are being sold off. its pretty...
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Camps will either become corporate retreats, sold to other c...
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  07/02/21
i really hope you're buying up the merit badge pamphlets, ge...
Frisky incel messiness
  03/12/22
tbf, their enrollment numbers were droppign bigly before the...
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  07/02/21
i think that messed with the formula that worked. and striv...
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Libs will argue this is because Boy Scouts is not lib enough...
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RIP Ranger Rick
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Former Eagle scout here. I was a Mormon kid who was basicall...
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  07/02/21
now you would just sit in a circle with your other nerd lose...
Titillating Chartreuse Private Investor
  07/02/21
I don't think the value to be found is really in learning du...
Galvanic stubborn location jewess
  07/02/21
I mean, I do have a few good memories of scouting. Eating sm...
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  07/02/21
I enjoyed parts of it as well. I hated the dorky part of it...
carnelian church building fortuitous meteor
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Ask yourself What kind of 13 year old girl would want to go ...
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The uniforms are horrible, but we never wore them on camping...
Galvanic stubborn location jewess
  07/02/21
We’d bring them. I remember being embarrassed eating ...
carnelian church building fortuitous meteor
  07/02/21
What kind of TTT troop were you in where you had to wear the...
Magical navy office ratface
  07/02/21
I can’t remember the reason we had them that time, but...
carnelian church building fortuitous meteor
  07/02/21
Eh, my guess is that the kid who is crying at scout camp is ...
Magical navy office ratface
  07/02/21
but that's entirely the problem. the fact that nobody wan...
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  07/02/21
Making a girl repeat that she should be trustworthy loyal ob...
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  07/02/21
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misunderstood chad
  03/12/22
Once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout.
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  07/02/21
cr. i actually really hated parts of it. the camp food was t...
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  07/02/21
Girls are fucking gay dude lmao
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There's no such thing as FORMER Eagle Scout
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  03/03/24
btw, guess who spearheaded the move to open up BSA? Rex Till...
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  07/02/21
Rex Tillerson is at home in Paris, in Prague, in London. ...
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  07/02/21
He has done the sword dance with the Saudi royals.
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  07/02/21
Need to bring back boy-fucking
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  07/05/21
Have The Girl Scouts Changed Since The Boy Scouts Let Girls ...
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"There are very few opportunities for girls to be in a ...
Galvanic stubborn location jewess
  03/12/22
Jennifer sounds like a transphobe and this is NOT. OKAY
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  03/12/22
i'm all over the above thread since i probably have the most...
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I come back to this thread occasionally whenever Scouting co...
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I played sports every season, including 2 sports one season)...
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"Join Fox News for access to this content" Sad.
Galvanic stubborn location jewess
  03/01/24
they did the same thing to the boy scouts that they did to t...
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  03/01/24
(((they)))
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Spaceporn should be a scoutmaster or whatever they’re ...
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I mostly hated Scouts. Some random thoughts: -the masters...
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“ even as a conservahero I thought it was pretty fucke...
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I agree with that and it’s 90% of why I thought it was...
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I had some pretty good experiences. Most of the adults in m...
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My scout troop was 180 because we were a marching band and g...
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I was in the Scouts starting about 1958. It was 180 then (80...
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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:17 AM
Author: Galvanic stubborn location jewess

"Membership for the BSA’s flagship Cub Scouts and Scouts BSA programs dropped from 1.97 million in 2019 to 1.12 million in 2020, a 43% plunge, according to figures provided to The Associated Press. Court records show membership has fallen further since then, to about 762,000."

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/boy-scouts-girl-scouts-suffer-huge-declines-membership-78578702

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42720997)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 7:12 AM
Author: Peach sticky antidepressant drug shrine

they changed the name to 'Scouts BSA' because they now allow girls to join btw

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 12:58 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac lilac locale factory reset button

Shouldn't that essentially double enrollment?

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Date: March 3rd, 2024 8:30 AM
Author: Peach sticky antidepressant drug shrine

Ljl

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:17 AM
Author: Bearded scourge upon the earth

Why

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:19 AM
Author: Galvanic stubborn location jewess

"The Boy Scouts of America said this week that the organization would create a “diversity and inclusion” merit badge and make earning it a requirement of becoming an Eagle Scout, the highest scouting rank."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/boy-scouts-diversity-inclusion-eagle.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721000)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:23 AM
Author: Exciting dysfunction stead



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 7:22 AM
Author: laughsome school

Lmao

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 8:56 AM
Author: trip anal genital piercing property



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 10:07 AM
Author: spruce macaca native



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 10:11 AM
Author: Self-absorbed crackhouse

Jfc

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:52 AM
Author: irradiated volcanic crater



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:58 AM
Author: Dark flirting step-uncle's house sweet tailpipe



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 4:45 PM
Author: Turquoise abode



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:37 PM
Author: wild abnormal lay elastic band

180!

HOpe to see more of it.

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Date: March 12th, 2022 10:24 PM
Author: internet-worthy area haunted graveyard



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Date: March 12th, 2022 10:29 PM
Author: frozen bat shit crazy turdskin resort

this is even worse than letting in women and fags. holy shit.

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Date: March 12th, 2022 10:34 PM
Author: cerise haunting legend

Holy shit

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Date: July 30th, 2023 12:22 AM
Author: internet-worthy area haunted graveyard



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Date: March 2nd, 2024 12:36 AM
Author: lime sex offender

if this means you have to screw a minority and an ugly chick then it's okay



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Date: March 2nd, 2024 11:07 PM
Author: Turquoise abode

*sigh*

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:19 AM
Author: dashing brindle temple

Systemic racism

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:24 AM
Author: Mahogany point mad-dog skullcap

they got skinsuited

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 10:07 AM
Author: spruce macaca native



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Date: July 30th, 2023 12:23 AM
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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:25 AM
Author: Rusted rough-skinned garrison stock car

Mormon church stopped associating with them

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:29 AM
Author: Galvanic stubborn location jewess

That was about 20% of their membership, IIRC.

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:29 AM
Author: Deranged cyan nibblets kitchen



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:30 AM
Author: Galvanic stubborn location jewess

2018 -- "The Mormon Church has been the largest participant of the Boy Scouts in the United States, making up nearly 20 percent of all of the Boy Scouts’ 2.3 million youth members."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/09/mormon-church-breaks-all-ties-with-boy-scouts-ending-100-year-relationship/

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:31 AM
Author: Bipolar cruise ship

and for good reason

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 6:21 AM
Author: carnelian church building fortuitous meteor

Everyone predicted this.

2013: Boy Scouts ends ban on gay scouts

http://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2169979&mc=8&forum_id=2

Membership 3.03 million

https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/annualreport/2013/324-168_WB.pdf

2015: lets in gay leaders

https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/27/us/boy-scouts-gay-leaders-feat/index.html

Membership at 2.74 million

https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/annualreport/2015/2015_Annual_Report.pdf

2016: libs report Boy Scouts doing great after ending gay ban

https://apnews.com/article/3de59dad2ba74b8f98bd3bc9b93c9bfc

Membership at 2.714 million

https://scoutingwire.org/annual-report-2016/

2017: announces will let in girls, will allow them to obtain eagle https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boy-scouts-will-admit-girls-allow-them-earn-eagle-scout-n809836

Membership at 2.659 million

https://scoutingwire.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2017-Annual-Report-Combined-FINAL-App-Version.pdf

2018: changes name to scouts bsa bc it now lets in girls. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/02/607678097/boy-scouts-changing-name-to-scouts-bsa-as-girls-welcomed-into-program

Membership at 2.499

https://ar2018.scouting.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/BSA-2018-AnnualReport_1.pdf

2019: girls officially start being in Boy Scouts

Membership at 1.97 million

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/boy-scout-cub-scout-membership-drops-43-2019-2020-1605652%3Famp%3D1

2020: membership at 1.12 million

2021: membership at 762,000

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/boy-scout-cub-scout-membership-drops-43-2019-2020-1605652%3Famp%3D1

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 7:09 AM
Author: Galvanic stubborn location jewess

The 2013 Mormons freakout reply was mine.

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 9:18 AM
Author: vivacious set yarmulke

the poast below pointing out that it's for kids who can't play sports was me

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:26 PM
Author: Galvanic stubborn location jewess

*high five*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42724049)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 7:22 AM
Author: laughsome school



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 9:10 AM
Author: violent naked church rigpig



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 10:04 AM
Author: costumed black persian



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:30 PM
Author: burgundy odious rehab trump supporter

we may never know why BSA died!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42724079)



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Date: March 12th, 2022 10:24 PM
Author: internet-worthy area haunted graveyard



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Date: March 13th, 2022 1:16 AM
Author: fuchsia windowlicker



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Date: July 30th, 2023 12:23 AM
Author: internet-worthy area haunted graveyard



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:45 AM
Author: Lascivious clear laser beams

Lots of reasons, but I'm sure Covid didn't help. People don't sign up for Zoom den meetings.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722239)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:26 AM
Author: purple locus

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i saw a bunch of "boy scouts" last week in greenpoint doing something, 100% asian kids and probably 80% girls. dorky old white guy "troop leader" wearing hiking boots, didn't seem like he even had a kid there. weird.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721012)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:27 AM
Author: Mahogany point mad-dog skullcap

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:20 PM
Author: Electric casino

Clearly not spaceport if troop was 80% girls

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42724006)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:28 AM
Author: Bipolar cruise ship

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 9:54 AM
Author: Cordovan Passionate Theater



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 8:57 AM
Author: Flesh round eye indian lodge

Trying to get dat eagle scout to apply ED to a lower Ivy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721518)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 9:53 AM
Author: Vigorous insane nursing home

A woke Asian Eagle Scout with good grades and test scores can get into HYP

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721720)



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Date: March 12th, 2022 10:29 PM
Author: misunderstood chad

I'm an ES and I don't know if it's ever mattered.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#44138465)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 9:53 AM
Author: Heady pea-brained gas station

"dorky old white guy "troop leader" wearing hiking boots"

is there any other kind?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721718)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:32 AM
Author: Aromatic Gold Cuckold Becky

You voted for this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722168)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 7:20 AM
Author: Flushed jap black woman

Maybe it's because of the pandemic stopping all the meetings?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721282)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:20 AM
Author: ivory heaven

It's been dropping for 20 years and in total freefall at terminal speed for 5

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722116)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:22 PM
Author: fishy market

libs in the fight of their life to blame every trackable decline caused by their activities on covid.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42723116)



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Date: March 13th, 2022 1:15 AM
Author: Dead school cafeteria death wish

Libs also caused the overbroad Covid measures themselves

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#44139061)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 7:24 AM
Author: Ruby well-lubricated tank pistol

Boy Scouts is a great organization, but when I was growing up, it was never really cool. Had this sort of dorky vibe in contrast to competing activities like Little League, which seemed a lot cooler. Great thing in which to participate, but it was always at risk.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721290)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 9:07 AM
Author: Ultramarine lodge

It was definitely for dorks whose parents thought they needed to do something. Cool kids played football, basketball and baseball and didn’t have time for some walk around the hills bullshit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721539)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 9:54 AM
Author: Heady pea-brained gas station

It's a good organization for big dorks though. I wasn't in scouts but my biggest nerd friend was, and he had a lot of good friends from scouts which was good because he didn't have a lot of friends at school.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721729)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 9:56 AM
Author: Vigorous insane nursing home

It was always the weird nerds at school who did Scouts. That stigma plus constant need to signal on social media, streaming networks, and general erosion of civic culture in the US doomed the org.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721736)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 9:58 AM
Author: Twinkling generalized bond alpha

lol way to out yourself as an urban parasite

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721742)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:12 PM
Author: Swashbuckling Queen Of The Night

I never once heard or saw of anything resembling a “boy” “scout” after about fifth grade or so among my classmates

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42723967)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:18 PM
Author: carnelian church building fortuitous meteor

Those of us at school in scouts would never admit it. We’d call it “soccer practice” at school. Like oh yeah you gonna be at “soccer practice” tonight?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42723989)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 9:13 AM
Author: greedy aqua site

I think COVID is responsible for the recent drop, but another factor not addressed here (in addition to the girls/Mormon thing which was a huge blow to membership) is the skyrocketing fees. When my son joined it cost about $15/scout to register w national. By the time he crossed over it was $66 or $72 and new registration fees on top of that. Note the article says "according to Court filings." Current members are basically paying reparations for lawsuits they had nothing to do with.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721551)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 1:31 PM
Author: olive hairless principal's office

I pulled my son from cub scouts this year because it was "virtual" - will re-enroll this fall

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722831)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 9:15 AM
Author: red bossy kitty whorehouse

Its child abuse to make your kid do this shit. Airsoft on the other hand....

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721554)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 9:59 AM
Author: Flickering crystalline piazza

letting your kids shoot toy guns is criminal. guns arent toys.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721746)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:33 AM
Author: Rusted rough-skinned garrison stock car



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:45 PM
Author: Peach sticky antidepressant drug shrine

Boy Scout Camp was the first time I ever shot a real gun. A .22 when I was 12. Was fun as hell.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42724152)



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Date: March 2nd, 2024 11:11 PM
Author: Turquoise abode

Same. No one taught me how to use it, either, which was a lot of fun. I figured it out pretty quick, though. But I was around 8 at the time and it was cub scouts and the scoutmaster (the "den leader" in cub scouts) was hammered.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#47457679)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:39 PM
Author: wild abnormal lay elastic band



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 10:00 AM
Author: Vigorous insane nursing home

Scouts was always a bit creepy and lots of boys got molested or raped on those long trips to the woods with random scout “masters”. It’s good that they’re dying out. Let individual parents form their own camping groups with their kids if they want.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721754)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:03 AM
Author: Heady pea-brained gas station

Usually it's like that, and the scoutmaster is just one of the dads. If it's just some random guy who's not a dad of one of the scouts, I agree that's a red flag.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722002)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: Vigorous insane nursing home

Most of the sickos doing the abusing were dads with kids in the troop. Sick shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722386)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:19 PM
Author: Frisky incel messiness

it is wise to remember that a lot of kikery goes into how all of this is spun:

wiki--

The newspaper discovered that 1,151 Scouts reported being abused by their leaders during the studied 19-year period, mostly before the implementation of the Youth Protection Plan. They published a detailed list of 416 cases from 1971–1990 where a US Scout leader was arrested or banned from Scouting for sexual abuse of Scouts, adding that experts said the real number of abusers and victims was probably several times higher. The newspaper articles later formed the basis for a book by the main journalist involved, Patrick Boyle: Scout's Honor: Sexual Abuse in America's Most Trusted Institution.

so even if you multiply that number by 20 you're talking about tiny numbers over millions of scouts. the libs were trying to kill scouting for years and their reporting was designed to poison the well on that. you're more likely to be molested by your uncle than your scoutmaster, etc.

ultimately, they went the route of taking over the institutions instead of attacking from the outside.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42723105)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 10:03 AM
Author: Fighting roommate marketing idea

libs: "Well, we did it!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721764)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 10:11 AM
Author: spruce macaca native



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:01 AM
Author: carnelian church building fortuitous meteor



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:06 PM
Author: Sienna Sanctuary



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:01 AM
Author: Talking Yapping Menage Mood

For years and years the Mormons funneled their teen boys into the program. They were a major percentage of the membership. They pulled the plug when the BSA announced that it would open membership to girls.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721993)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:02 AM
Author: burgundy odious rehab trump supporter

They were unwilling to stand up for their own convictions -- and they've died.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42721998)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:03 AM
Author: spruce macaca native



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:04 AM
Author: Heady pea-brained gas station



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:52 AM
Author: irradiated volcanic crater



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 12:13 PM
Author: disgusting arousing deer antler

Allegory for America

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722375)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 4:35 PM
Author: laughsome school



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:05 AM
Author: swollen walnut business firm weed whacker

I think most people have realized that boy scouts is really lame and not cool.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722006)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:06 AM
Author: carnelian church building fortuitous meteor

(President of Scouts BSA)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722011)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:23 AM
Author: greedy aqua site

lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722126)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:23 AM
Author: deep hospital



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:34 AM
Author: slimy hateful indirect expression



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Date: March 12th, 2022 10:41 PM
Author: blue brunch



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:25 AM
Author: greedy aqua site

I would also argue that lack of parent participation is a big factor as well. Seeing this a bit in kids' sports too, but it impacts scouting more. Parents want to be able to drop off and leave or be on their phones. Two-income households and longer work hours also mean less time/energy to help with extra-curriculars. Our pack had a bunch of Eagle scout dads, and it was like pulling teeth sometimes to get them to help or volunteer. By the time we crossed over it was mostly moms running it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722141)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:26 AM
Author: Startling bisexual idiot



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 4:27 PM
Author: Galvanic stubborn location jewess

Goyscouts?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42723764)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:43 AM
Author: Transparent razzle cuck

Don't girls have girl scouts still? Why did they need to integrate?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722226)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:53 AM
Author: Fighting roommate marketing idea

(nazi)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722271)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:23 PM
Author: fishy market

(bigot)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42723118)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 11:58 AM
Author: Frisky incel messiness

the scouting curriculum (minus some fucking dei badge) is the best curriculum that a young man can do. most boys would quite frankly do better spending 2 years doing the scouting curriculum instead of full time hs. going camping once a month (as the curriculum actually advises) and doing 1 long term camp a year is 180.

the shit around it kinda got super corny. i loved my time and i learned more earning my eagle than i did in college.

americans are so over the fucking top is the problem. i hear about all these eagles at 15. like dog, not everything needs to be so OD.

anyways. my advice is get all of the merit badge pamphlets, save all the curricular materials, and teach your kids off of that because institutional scouting is basically doomed. i wonder what happens to all the camps.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722302)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 12:22 PM
Author: shivering mind-boggling address headpube



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722414)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Frisky incel messiness

imho, yes. it's best done in groups--the patrol method, but you can "lone scout" and learn it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722434)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 12:41 PM
Author: shivering mind-boggling address headpube



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 1:59 PM
Author: Frisky incel messiness

get everything on the eagle list.

wildnerness survival. orienteering. canoeing. small boat sailing. camping. lifesaving. whitewater. anything with shooting. swimming. motorboating. painting. gardening. kayaking. orienteering. nature. forestry. astronomy. rowing. fishing. electricity. backpacking. cycling. automotive maintance. first aid.

honestly, get the older ones in black and white if you can. also, this book is indispensible if you're being serious: the fieldbook. but THIS ONE not any other one. they completely fucked this book up in later editions.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/154436949059?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3AAQAGAAAAkGzZnfDqZpO5SNowqgx2jRd3OS2YevIV4FJO40A6NDNmBljXVrYD87Femtt%2BKwCPgOmuQ4Af1xtHOZnt4KH3A8TVD5pavLZSdmdSSvhWPoWi2iBr2PZMclfEpVVBA2gTKu6JQ%2FczwalSSw80c%2Bf34NCeEmQLkvoiuuObiXpZ6tcorpOSvZJxeU2MSkL9sDIyNw%3D%3D&chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=154436949059&targetid=1262376588936&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9003627&poi=&campaignid=12874531651&mkgroupid=123924950842&rlsatarget=pla-1262376588936&abcId=9300535&merchantid=116335014&gclid=Cj0KCQjw8vqGBhC_ARIsADMSd1BVb8br8C18QM6axOpQedJlSx28ZY7ZFDnP9UyeR_xvxQb4_lMdIbAaApFwEALw_wcB

this should be next to your family bible.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722993)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:03 PM
Author: Self-absorbed crackhouse

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42723021)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:19 PM
Author: shivering mind-boggling address headpube



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42723098)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:20 PM
Author: Frisky incel messiness

180. it's really one of the most important american books ever written imho.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42723106)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 12:51 PM
Author: ocher impressive half-breed

most of the camps around here are being sold off. its pretty sad. many of them were great. took a century to acquire them, and only a few years of lib infiltration to burn it all down.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722608)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 12:54 PM
Author: shivering mind-boggling address headpube



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722617)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:05 PM
Author: carnelian church building fortuitous meteor

Camps will either become corporate retreats, sold to other camps for different purposes, or be sold and developed into neighborhoods

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42723027)



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Date: March 12th, 2022 10:32 PM
Author: Frisky incel messiness

i really hope you're buying up the merit badge pamphlets, gentlemen.

scouting will be gone soon.

tragic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#44138486)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 12:23 PM
Author: Titillating Chartreuse Private Investor

tbf, their enrollment numbers were droppign bigly before the diversity bullshit. just not something that adapted well to the times. sad beacuse dorky as they were it would be nice to have some structured/forced outdoor activity time/learning for kids nowadays instead of being glued to tiktok and fortnite and shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722426)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:05 PM
Author: Frisky incel messiness

i think that messed with the formula that worked. and striverism took hold. scouting is awesome if it's something you do casually. once troops started to the bimodal distribution of hood after school programs (inschool scouting) and "eagle factories" for loser weirdos who wanted to earn all the badges and get all these eagle palms it became preposterous.

it should always have been something you did rather casually. once kids were made to become super strivers the org was cooked.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42723029)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 12:53 PM
Author: Motley really tough guy

Libs will argue this is because Boy Scouts is not lib enough. Watch these arguments come.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722614)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 1:27 PM
Author: carnelian church building fortuitous meteor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722817)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 4:51 PM
Author: Self-absorbed crackhouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42723883)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 1:00 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac lilac locale factory reset button

RIP Ranger Rick

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42722644)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:01 PM
Author: racy useless tanning salon digit ratio

White males should be joining Right Wing Youth Leagues, not the Boy Scouts, which was Jewish controlled long before the 'woke' thing started.

Boys Life magazine was published by Jews.

stop crying, start organizing to take back the country.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#42723007)



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: Self-absorbed crackhouse



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 4:28 PM
Author: chest-beating floppy parlour therapy



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 4:25 PM
Author: Magical navy office ratface

Former Eagle scout here. I was a Mormon kid who was basically forced into it by my parents/church community. I had some good experiences, I guess, but I can't say that I feel bad that my kids won't do the same thing. I'm all for exploring nature, but I can do that with day hikes. I don't need to sleep on the ground and shit in a hole. And I feel like 90-95% of the merit badge work I did was just busy work. I'm struggling to think of a single thing I learned as a Scout that I even remember now (much less use in my current life).

However, I do find it bizarre that membership is dropping now that girls are allowed. Going camping with girls as a young teenager was basically my fondest wet dream. I remember they hired a couple female staff at scout camp one year. We used to hide outside the showers every night hoping to catch a peek. (This was in the pre-Internet days, so the closest thing to boobs that any of us had ever seen was the Victoria's secret catalog.) I would have thought that sneaking off into the woods with a girl (or just creeping outside her tent as she changes clothes) would be 180^180 as a 13-year-old boy. Maybe real girls aren't as exciting to today's 13-year-olds who can see boobs any time they want once they are old enough to have a smartphone. Or maybe parents don't love the idea of coed camping trips as much as I would have as a 13-year-old. Who knows?

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 4:28 PM
Author: Titillating Chartreuse Private Investor

now you would just sit in a circle with your other nerd loser friends poa on xo while the girls make tiktok stripper videos for chads in their class

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 4:30 PM
Author: Galvanic stubborn location jewess

I don't think the value to be found is really in learning dumb shit for merit badges. It's the experiences -- camping in a snow cave, going for a week-long hike, having positive role models, etc. And maybe you'll pick up a few knots and a littel first aid along the way.

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:08 PM
Author: Magical navy office ratface

I mean, I do have a few good memories of scouting. Eating smores over the fire in the woods. Getting my mile swim recognition in a tiny glacial lake (and nearly getting frostbite in the process). Doing a rope course in the trees at scout camp. Hiding in the bushes outside the showers hoping against hope to catch a glance of boobs on a hot 16-year-old staff member (and end up seeing some 50-year-old scoutmaster naked instead). But yeah that's literally all I can remember from my scouting days. And I could have made similar memories without being a scout.

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:29 PM
Author: carnelian church building fortuitous meteor

I enjoyed parts of it as well. I hated the dorky part of it and would never speak of it outside of it. Didn’t like the ceremonies or uniforms either. In high school, conformity was an obsession with me and the site of myself in the uniform filled me with dread.

It did force me to do backpacking and go camping, which I never would have done on my own. Learned to be uncomfortable sleeping in the cold or hot, so that was valuable as well. Had various leadership positions that possibly gave me some confidence to offset the self consciousness that being in it on the first place gave me.

I enjoyed summer camp. Ours was on a lake so we’d go sailboating in small sail boats, which was 180. Kind of amazed they just let 2 kids age 13-14 get on a sailboat and go out into the water alone.

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 4:33 PM
Author: carnelian church building fortuitous meteor

Ask yourself What kind of 13 year old girl would want to go walk around in the woods wearing a dorky tan short sleeve button up Boy Scout uniform shirt, neckerchief, green shorts and green socks and you’ll have your answer

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 4:35 PM
Author: Galvanic stubborn location jewess

The uniforms are horrible, but we never wore them on camping trips.

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 4:49 PM
Author: carnelian church building fortuitous meteor

We’d bring them. I remember being embarrassed eating at a Waffle House on the way back from a camping trip wearing my Boy Scout uniform at age 14 or so.

Regardless, what kind of fantasy land are you living in where tens of thousands of attractive 13-18 year old girls are regularly attending “patrol leader councils,” wearing said dorky uniforms to meetings on Monday nights, are participating in the order of the arrow where you dress up like an Indian and dance around (probably racist anyways), earning pointless merit badges to sew on a sash, spending one weekend a month hiking in the woods and learning to either not take a dump all weekend, bury your shit in the woods, or carry it out? That they’d just love to know what happens to tampons in the middle of forest?

Do you think these attractive teenage girls are going to want to be walking around reciting “a scout is trustworthy, loyal, kind...”. Do you think they’re going to want to salute each other with three fingers cocked at their eyebrows?

Like in any time in history, has there ever been a pent up demand for tens of thousands of women in the prime of their lives to dress up in fake military uniforms and go camping? Like the only thing preventing these girls from Doing so was that the Boy Scouts didn’t let them?

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:04 PM
Author: Magical navy office ratface

What kind of TTT troop were you in where you had to wear the dorky uniform to scout camp? I'm pretty sure that the only time we ever wore our uniforms was at award ceremonies and things like that. We definitely never wore them when camping.

And yeah, although you are highlighting the weirdest shit in scouting, I'm guessing that most teenage girls would not be interested in going camping once a month with a bunch of dudes. (Although I'm not sure how many guys would be interested these days if they didn't get pressure from parents/church.) But you only need 1-2 girls in your troop for incredibly quality spank bank material creeping outside their tent. And you know that these girls are going to be able to have their pick of any dude at camp, so they are almost certainly going to sneak off in the woods for, at the bare minimum, some quality makeout sessions. As a 13-year-old virgin who had never seen a boob, knowing that there was even a 0.1% chance that she would pick me would be more than enough to convince me to shit in a hole for a week.

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:12 PM
Author: carnelian church building fortuitous meteor

I can’t remember the reason we had them that time, but we def had to bring them on occasion. I earned my Eagle Scout and so did a bunch of the guys there.

Even 1-2 girls in the group would disrupt the whole dynamic. Dorky boys would end up stopping to come bc they would get made fun of by everyone else even more to impress girls. I remember some kid crying like a bitch that we didn’t clear the proper space around the camp fire when we were camping in the rain. Everyone made fun of him, but ended up coming to begrudgingly like him because he was a fun foil in the group. That kids not going to come on a trip with girls because he’d be too embarrassed. That kid comprises probably 30-40% of the kids in scouts now if I had to guess. As time as progressed, less normal kids are getting involved and staying involved

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:48 PM
Author: Magical navy office ratface

Eh, my guess is that the kid who is crying at scout camp is only there because his parents made him go in the first place. That isn't going to change if there are girls in the troop. If anything, that might make him more likely to go. Some girl might feel bad for him and give him a pity makeout session in the woods or quickly flash him in her tent.

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:05 PM
Author: racy useless tanning salon digit ratio

but that's entirely the problem.

the fact that nobody wants to be 'trustworthy, loyal, and kind' because it's 'dorky' and they'd rather do nigger-dances on TikTok is THE PROBLEM.

it's depraved, Sodom & Gomorrah shit.

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:14 PM
Author: carnelian church building fortuitous meteor

Making a girl repeat that she should be trustworthy loyal obedient cheerful thrifty brave clean and reverent is probably a hate crime.

How dare you tell a girl she should be cheerful or obedient!

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Date: March 12th, 2022 11:25 PM
Author: misunderstood chad



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Date: July 2nd, 2021 4:41 PM
Author: Rusted rough-skinned garrison stock car

Once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout.

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:11 PM
Author: frozen bat shit crazy turdskin resort

cr. i actually really hated parts of it. the camp food was terrible, the religious nonsense, being forced to recite dumb shit like the Scout creed or whatever the fuck it was to advance, the camp restrooms were covered in shit and no one made any effort to clean them, etc. there were some fun parts, but overall it was an unpleasant experience. i repeatedly told my parents i wanted to quit but those fags wouldn't let me.

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Date: March 13th, 2022 1:17 AM
Author: fuchsia windowlicker

Girls are fucking gay dude lmao

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Date: July 30th, 2023 12:34 AM
Author: fuchsia windowlicker



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Date: July 30th, 2023 12:46 AM
Author: buff mewling ticket booth



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Date: March 3rd, 2024 12:01 AM
Author: misunderstood chad

There's no such thing as FORMER Eagle Scout

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:12 PM
Author: burgundy odious rehab trump supporter

btw, guess who spearheaded the move to open up BSA? Rex Tillerson.

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:27 PM
Author: Bearded scourge upon the earth

Rex Tillerson is at home in Paris, in Prague, in London.

He cannot be confronted.

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 5:29 PM
Author: burgundy odious rehab trump supporter

He has done the sword dance with the Saudi royals.

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Date: July 2nd, 2021 10:29 PM
Author: blathering tantric senate roast beef

Need to bring back boy-fucking

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Date: July 5th, 2021 9:27 PM
Author: Self-absorbed crackhouse



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Date: March 12th, 2022 10:26 PM
Author: hairraiser psychic center

Have The Girl Scouts Changed Since The Boy Scouts Let Girls In? They Haven't.

Even with the Boy Scouts of America accepting girls into all levels of scouting, the Girl Scouts has not seen a significant decline in membership.

Jennifer Bartkowski is the CEO of the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas. She said the Girl Scouts organization doesn’t see the Boy Scouts of America — or Scouts BSA, as the organization is sometimes called — as competition, because they’re unique programs. She said the most important thing the Girl Scouts offers is a space that’s built by girls, for girls only.

“Girls are in a mixed gender space all of their lives,” Bartkowski said. “There are very few opportunities for girls to be in a single-gender space where they can rely on one another, build relationships with one another, be themselves, not have to compete for space, not have to show off in any kind of different way.”

https://www.keranews.org/news/2021-04-25/have-the-girl-scouts-has-changed-since-the-boy-scouts-let-girls-in-they-havent

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Date: March 12th, 2022 10:43 PM
Author: Galvanic stubborn location jewess

"There are very few opportunities for girls to be in a single-gender, mixed-sex space..."

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Date: March 12th, 2022 11:37 PM
Author: Swashbuckling Queen Of The Night

Jennifer sounds like a transphobe and this is NOT. OKAY

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Date: March 12th, 2022 10:37 PM
Author: Frisky incel messiness

i'm all over the above thread since i probably have the most institutional knowledge on scouting.

while covid may have hastened the death, it was always coming. the writ large problem was the change of the american family. so many kids either are 1) in single parent households w/multiple children and can't "split the difference" w/r/t having some kids in one thing that the others cant be a part of, 2) or their parents work so much that they can't volunteer, 3) find the values corny. moving scouting to zoom and then cancelling summer camps was just a death sentence.

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Date: March 12th, 2022 10:45 PM
Author: internet-worthy area haunted graveyard

I come back to this thread occasionally whenever Scouting comes up in my IRL. It’s unbelievably sad. Boy Scouts are needed more than ever, but we simply aren’t strong enough to sustain it anymore. What a tremendous loss.

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Date: March 12th, 2022 11:44 PM
Author: French Wrinkle Background Story

I played sports every season, including 2 sports one season).

This boyscots shit seems gay as fuck.

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Date: February 22nd, 2024 2:38 PM
Author: internet-worthy area haunted graveyard

Lol the hits keep coming

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-allows-2-5-billion-boy-scouts-settlement-sex-abuse-victims-proceed?intcmp=tw_fnc

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Date: March 1st, 2024 11:28 PM
Author: Galvanic stubborn location jewess

"Join Fox News for access to this content"

Sad.

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Date: March 1st, 2024 11:33 PM
Author: Stirring Saffron Azn Ladyboy

they did the same thing to the boy scouts that they did to the catholic church. "2.5 billion" lmao.

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Date: March 2nd, 2024 12:39 AM
Author: fragrant kink-friendly athletic conference space

(((they)))

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Date: March 1st, 2024 11:36 PM
Author: Honey-headed Hall

Spaceporn should be a scoutmaster or whatever they’re called

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Date: March 2nd, 2024 12:28 AM
Author: multi-colored box office

I mostly hated Scouts. Some random thoughts:

-the masters were the worst part. My dad was involved in coaching sports and shit but never volunteered with scouts except a weekend camping trip or two. Most of the scout masters were absolute fucking losers IRL with some weird power complex who loved the quasi-military structure of it. Several stayed involved well after their kids were 18 and it was super creepy. When I look back on all the men I ever met as a kid in any context, all 10 of the top 10 creepiest were scoutmasters. Even the normal ones seemed to care about nothing besides getting eagle for their kid as if it has meant jack shit since 1990. One of them I barely knew seemed genuinely angry I “said all the right things, but it’s about what you say, not what you do” during my Star rank panel I nevertheless passed (which meant absolutely nothing). I genuinely can’t figure out the psychology of someone like that who would give a shit that some random kid wasn’t super involved in scouts and still met the requirements for some meaningless rank.

-I was from KC and we has this super gay “Indian” tribe called Mic-O-Say. Not flame, the KC Chiefs are named the Chiefs because of this “tribe.” Fortunately I didn’t go to the local summer camp enough years to get pulled into it, but even as a conservahero I thought it was pretty fucked up having to go to ceremonies where a bunch of nerdy white adults played dress up as shirtless Indians and gave all these self-serious speeches about connecting with earth spirits and shit in the most laughably stereotypical Indian shaman cadence.

-the weekly meetings were pointless and my mom made me go to about half of them until I was 15 or so. There were a few solid dudes but most of them were weirdos and it was basically recess for an hour or whatever at some random church.

-high adventure was the only worthwhile part. I did Philmont and Sea Base and while the people sucked, the experiences were pretty cool, especially Philmont. I assume BSA won’t own Philmont for much longer for financial reasons.

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Date: March 2nd, 2024 10:48 PM
Author: Abusive rambunctious filthpig

“ even as a conservahero I thought it was pretty fucked up having to go to ceremonies where a bunch of nerdy white adults played dress up as shirtless Indians and gave all these self-serious speeches about connecting with earth spirits and shit in the most laughably stereotypical Indian shaman cadence.”

You are correct it’s fucked up and it has nothing to do with politics. It’s just dorky, strange, pathetic, and probably pedo for adult men to be cosplaying about cowboys and Indians to influence children. Its the most bizarre power fantasy power trip.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4869755&forum_id=2),#47457628)



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Date: March 3rd, 2024 4:29 PM
Author: multi-colored box office

I agree with that and it’s 90% of why I thought it was fucked up too, the politics part is that I guess I had just enough shitlib in me to think that acting like sacred Indian spiritual leaders was inappropriate for what’s now known as cultural appropriation reasons, on top of the bigger issues you described of it being creepy and lame.

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Date: March 2nd, 2024 11:59 PM
Author: carnelian church building fortuitous meteor

I had some pretty good experiences. Most of the adults in mine were pretty normal. Even some of the mean dorky ones taught me some stuff that I still recall today, so wasn’t totally worthless. Was super dorky and would never admit to doing it at school. I wish there was a less dorky way to do it.

I ended up getting Eagle, but wouldn’t ever put my sons in it. Bunch of dorky libs now. Fuck it

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Date: March 2nd, 2024 10:28 PM
Author: lime sex offender



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Date: March 2nd, 2024 11:14 PM
Author: misunderstood chad

My scout troop was 180 because we were a marching band and got to travel around the country and be on TV and meet girls in other marching bands. At scout camp we were first in line at mess hall and never had to wear uniforms except when we did ceremonial shit. We also fought a lot and caused a lot of damage to dormitories, rest rooms, buses and a church basement. We were racist too and no one cared.

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Date: March 3rd, 2024 2:16 AM
Author: Diverse white gaping

I was in the Scouts starting about 1958. It was 180 then (800 guess I should say). No pedo stuff. Lots of camping/shooting/sports/survival/survival/hunting/fishing/nature activities. Acquired a ton of useful skills. Adult supervision but we quickly learned how to organize and take care of ourselves. Merit badges had real content. The old Scout handbooks are still useful survival guides. Here's an ad from one of mine as example of how things have changed. Aimed at 12-15 year old boys: https://imgur.com/UNYoMbE

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Date: March 3rd, 2024 2:47 AM
Author: silver trust fund stag film

180000

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Date: March 3rd, 2024 2:50 AM
Author: Bonkers Partner

libs should be hunted down and killed for sport by people who love America

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Date: March 3rd, 2024 8:33 AM
Author: misunderstood chad

Boy scouts are well positioned to conduct guerilla warfare. Especially if the adversary is 300lb Jewish tranny binge watching Netflix.

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Date: September 13th, 2026 5:53 PM
Author: ~~(> ' ' )>

Status?

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