• copymyjalopy
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    10 months ago

    I actually had to verify that this was satire.

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      10 months ago

      this article might be, but the sentiment is not.

      an inclusive organization that educates and empowers girls and young women is definitely on the list of people and organizations hated by the far-right.

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      10 months ago

      I saw this was posted in theonion, I know hardtimes is satirical, I still wasn’t entirely sure it was satire.

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    10 months ago

    There’s a guy in my community where this news isn’t satire.

    We have some bloke who goes to a local printing shop and gets a bunch of custom yard signs by the dozens every other week. If he wasn’t such a bigot it would be fun looking at what is the sign of the day lol.

    Just a few weeks ago there was a “Girl Scouts are going woke!” sign 😐

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      10 months ago

      Ironically girl scouts are woke. Haven’t they always been for the empowerment of girls? Teaching them how to be more confident and self sufficient lul. I’m surprised they haven’t been targeted yet by that crowd tbh.

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        10 months ago

        Literally since before the beginning of the GSA. The founder of the BSA Robert Baden-Powell ran a newsletter for the early Boy Scouts and in 1909 he wrote, “If a girl is not allowed to run, or even hurry, to swim, ride a bike, or raise her arms above her head, how can she become a Scout?”

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    10 months ago

    God I don’t think it’s ever been easier to eat the onion than with his headline. In fact I’m 99% sure this is actually happening somewhere.

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    10 months ago

    I didn’t eat the onion because I read the sub first, yet it still made me think did this get posted to the wrong sub?

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        10 months ago

        As in i briefly thought the story sounded believable enough to be real, before noticing the publication. There is a satyrical news site in the uk called ‘the daily mash’, hence the term ‘mashed’ for being tricked into believing the obviously fake news

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    10 months ago

    Didn’t this actually happen five or six years ago when the Girl Scouts officially started allowing trans girls in?

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      10 months ago

      Theyve done that for a while, like over a decade.

      There was a thing more recently where they were beefing with the Boy Scouts for allowing girls in though.

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    10 months ago

    If a conservative “think” tank wasted that amount of money and went nowhere, I’d say the money was well spent. That’s $40m they cannot spend on other things.

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    10 months ago

    I almost didn’t notice the community this was from. It really does seem like something they would do.

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    10 months ago

    See I knew this was fake because the girl scouts is a cookie company that somehow uses child labor. They don’t teach those girls anything about knots, knives, fire, guns, boats, or anything like that.