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I'm going to take the bold stance that the executive putting their political opponents on a TSA watchlist is bad, regardless of which party is doing it.

by themgt 1y ago

vkou 1y ago
It's worse when they sic ICE (and the military for the cherry on top) against them, the TSA at least has the decency to keep its hands in the airport. --- Using the military against your political enemies, by the way, is a genie that you can never put back in the bottle. I am very tired of people who are more concerned with scoring points about 'look, both sides!' while turning a blind eye to the actual we-went-through-a-phase-change insanity of what's going on. The last two hundred years was built on a bargain of the military staying out of politics in exchange for the military not being used politically. This year, MAGA sent a giant fucking wrecking ball through that.
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Forgeties79 1y ago
Doesn’t change the fact that they’re just changing the mechanism for doing the same thing but even more aggressively.
trhway 1y ago
>executive putting their political opponents on a TSA watchlist is bad Just wait a year or two and it will become totally normalized. Remember those Cristie's stuffers which went to prison for closing bridge for several days in the city which went Democratic? It was just few years ago that such political retribution was considered a Bad Thing. Today it is just a new normal in politics.
- lesuorac 1y ago
  > Today it is just a new normal in politics. Yeah because they got released from prison ... When there's no punishment for bad behavior it normalizes it.
blurbleblurble 1y ago
I agree with you. This is what's happening now: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-commo... And this: https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4q6ctl7imutpx4wxfzub554r/bafkreig6ncchmdulzgzkl7j2lmws3tb35buk464wqjini3z6g6bldoyai4@jpeg https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4q6ctl7...

I'm going to take the bold stance that the executive putting their political opponents on a TSA watchlist is bad, regardless of which party is doing it.

by themgt 1y ago

I'm going to take the bold stance that the executive putting their political opponents on a TSA watchlist is bad, regardless of which party is doing it.

vkou 1y ago

It's worse when they sic ICE (and the military for the cherry on top) against them, the TSA at least has the decency to keep its hands in the airport. --- Using the military against your political enemies, by the way, is a genie that you can never put back in the bottle. I am very tired of people who are more concerned with scoring points about 'look, both sides!' while turning a blind eye to the actual we-went-through-a-phase-change insanity of what's going on. The last two hundred years was built on a bargain of the military staying out of politics in exchange for the military not being used politically. This year, MAGA sent a giant fucking wrecking ball through that.

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Forgeties79 1y ago

Doesn’t change the fact that they’re just changing the mechanism for doing the same thing but even more aggressively.

trhway 1y ago

>executive putting their political opponents on a TSA watchlist is bad Just wait a year or two and it will become totally normalized. Remember those Cristie's stuffers which went to prison for closing bridge for several days in the city which went Democratic? It was just few years ago that such political retribution was considered a Bad Thing. Today it is just a new normal in politics.

lesuorac 1y ago
> Today it is just a new normal in politics. Yeah because they got released from prison ... When there's no punishment for bad behavior it normalizes it.

blurbleblurble 1y ago

I agree with you. This is what's happening now: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-commo... And this: https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4q6ctl7imutpx4wxfzub554r/bafkreig6ncchmdulzgzkl7j2lmws3tb35buk464wqjini3z6g6bldoyai4@jpeg https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4q6ctl7...