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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Especially since it's just theater. It's just to make you feel fucking oppressed. Fuck!

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

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

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months 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.

[–] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.”

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

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

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

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months 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