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Wonder how many more decades we'll pretend like everyone flying is a potential suicide bombing terrorist and ignore things like # of years or # of flights witho
by chrisco255 3y ago
Wonder how many more decades we'll pretend like everyone flying is a potential suicide bombing terrorist and ignore things like # of years or # of flights without trying to hijack a plane. Surely, if I've got 20 years of non-terrorist behavior, I should be allowed to go through a standard metal detector, no?
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoWait, do you still think this is about flight safety? I thought everyone saw it for what it is, conditioning.
- ryandrake 3y agoConditioning for what? To what end? Conspiratorial thinking. TSA is a jobs program.
- trowaway11345 3y agoA conspiracy by definition is a group of people working together to benefit themselves at the expense of others. So yes, this is conspiratorial thinking, and that in itself does not necessitate it being invalid.
- injeolmi_love 3y agoAcceptance of warrantless searches. To enable greater power and wealth for the political classes.
- hedora 3y agoWhy can’t it be both?
- onlyrealcuzzo 3y agoThere's like ~47,000 TSA employees for context.
- wilde 3y agoNot if they automate it like in the OP?
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoDouble especially if they automate it. Here is the rule, don’t question it, and now do it yourself. Everywhere you go you better follow the rules and check yourself in. Never question it.
- plagiarist 3y agoIf it is a jobs program, why are they understaffed and slow all the time? It is a scheme to funnel money over to millimeter wave machine manufacturers and gather biodata for Clear et al.
- laweijfmvo 3y agoyou don’t need to wait 20 years, just pay $80!
- wl 3y agoToday, that's a metal detector that intentionally randomly goes off even if you don't have any metal. Not quite "standard" in my book.
- plagiarist 3y agoIt is security theater. We just needed millions of dollars in equipment to go in so that Chertoff was able to get his payout. The frequency of false positives and false negatives is irrelevant.
- wl 3y agoFor the downvoters because I can't edit anymore: No, this is not sarcasm about the quality of the metal detectors. The TSA intentionally configures their metal detectors to randomly trigger on people despite them not otherwise meeting the detection threshold. It's a different beep. It's a way to randomly select people for a body scan or a patdown.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoDon’t tell them about TSA pre check! It’s so wonderful because many people don’t know about it, so it keeps the line short! And definitely don’t tell them about global citizen!
- candiddevmike 3y ago> so it keeps the line short I've seen the TSA pre-check line be longer than the regular TSA line recently. I think there has been a big push to get folks into pre-check, including opening up more interview places and making it less of a pain in the ass to get. It's all a money grab at the end of the day.
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- a_gnostic 3y agoForever, as long as you comply.
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- phpisthebest 3y agoWonder how many more decades we'll pretend the TSA, or any other federal agency like it has anything to do with safety at all. It is all a pretense for behavior control, to have a precleared, approved, and unquestioned method to shut down "trouble makers", dissent, or other things the government finds more complicated to control unless they have tools created to prevent "terror"... How else can they easily track who went to the political protest unless you your required to scan your face as you board the plan to go... How else can they shut down otherwise legal activity under the guise of security with out the terror back drop TSA is not about stopping terror, TSA is the terror
- scarface_74 3y agoI mean I’m all for a good anti government rant. But as someone who has has been through airport security in 15 cities this year and has 36 “segments” this year (landing and taking off in planes), TSA is the least intrusive part of government.
- phpisthebest 3y agoThey literally take a nude photo of every traveler.... How is that Least Intrusive?
- marssaxman 3y agoNot every traveler - only the ones who don't opt for the free massage instead!