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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I am legitimately surprised that the TSA has not been quietly disbanded by now

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Too many opportunities for skimming off the top to let go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

people won't fly if they don't go through the security theater beforehand. they wildly overestimate the likelihood of terrorism because the impact is very high, so if you don't make them take their shoes off, throw out their water and do a little security dance they'll assume they're going to be murdered.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have yet to meet someone saying thank you while being asked to walk through the metal detector a second time. I think it’s more along the lines of “this decision was never up to us.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, those changes came while Constitutional law was suspended. The Patriot Act was a coup in and of itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Eh, maybe you're right. It's been a while. Still, hard to overstate the raw terror in the first couple years, maybe now it's just entrenched bureaucracy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

people won't fly if they don't go through the security theater beforehand

I can't speak for others, but I would.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, they can’t do that. Otherwise the private company (Clear) that gets way too much information about you in exchange for allowing you to skip the unpleasantness of the TSA wouldn’t have justification!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God damn it of course there's a private company involved

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh yeah my friend. They are posted up at most major airports now. It’s TSA pre-check but in private form.