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This is a really shitty attitude to have towards your fellow human beings. Do you also shame people working at McDonalds for enabling their rich corporate overl

This is a really shitty attitude to have towards your fellow human beings. Do you also shame people working at McDonalds for enabling their rich corporate overlords? Do you hate gas station attendants for contributing to global warming? If you really want to make a statement, stop flying and stop paying money into the TSA.

1000units 8y ago
Neither of those two parties is doing anything wrong; you just invented fanciful abstract offenses to be argumentative. TSA agents are doing something concretely wrong every time they grope my genitals, even if it is sanctioned by the state. It's certainly unoptimal that we'd ever have to be rude to people to change things for the better, but we don't actually live in a wholly civil society, evidenced by the fact that my genitals get groped every time I book a flight.
- labster 8y ago
  I've had my genitalia groped exactly zero times by the TSA. I'm guessing that you probably got put on some TSA shitlist, probably from behavior like the above, or you're an ordinary person of color, not sure which.
  - 1000units 8y ago
    The preferred nomenclature is "Mediterranean", thank you.
  - _m7bj 8y ago
    >I've had my genitalia groped exactly zero times by the TSA. >or you're an ordinary person of color, not sure which. Yeah, and that's fine, right? We shouldn't go out of our way to tell the TSA that's not acceptable or anything /s
Sir_Substance 8y ago
>If you really want to make a statement, stop flying and stop paying money into the TSA. This is a non-argument. Flying is a part of modern life. For a large percentage of the population, refusing to fly would lose them their job, as would refusing to use a mobile phone or insisting on being paid with cash. It is self evident to any rational person that it is acceptable to attempt to change a system rather than opting out of it if one sees a problem with that system. >This is a really shitty attitude to have towards your fellow human beings. Do you also shame people working at McDonalds for enabling their rich corporate overlords? Do you hate gas station attendants for contributing to global warming? I don't see the connection to McDonalds employees. Please explain how McDonalds employees are like TSA workers.

1000units 8y ago

Neither of those two parties is doing anything wrong; you just invented fanciful abstract offenses to be argumentative. TSA agents are doing something concretely wrong every time they grope my genitals, even if it is sanctioned by the state. It's certainly unoptimal that we'd ever have to be rude to people to change things for the better, but we don't actually live in a wholly civil society, evidenced by the fact that my genitals get groped every time I book a flight.

labster 8y ago
I've had my genitalia groped exactly zero times by the TSA. I'm guessing that you probably got put on some TSA shitlist, probably from behavior like the above, or you're an ordinary person of color, not sure which.
- 1000units 8y ago
  The preferred nomenclature is "Mediterranean", thank you.
- _m7bj 8y ago
  >I've had my genitalia groped exactly zero times by the TSA. >or you're an ordinary person of color, not sure which. Yeah, and that's fine, right? We shouldn't go out of our way to tell the TSA that's not acceptable or anything /s

Sir_Substance 8y ago

>If you really want to make a statement, stop flying and stop paying money into the TSA. This is a non-argument. Flying is a part of modern life. For a large percentage of the population, refusing to fly would lose them their job, as would refusing to use a mobile phone or insisting on being paid with cash. It is self evident to any rational person that it is acceptable to attempt to change a system rather than opting out of it if one sees a problem with that system. >This is a really shitty attitude to have towards your fellow human beings. Do you also shame people working at McDonalds for enabling their rich corporate overlords? Do you hate gas station attendants for contributing to global warming? I don't see the connection to McDonalds employees. Please explain how McDonalds employees are like TSA workers.