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They should get paid, but I’m not sorry that a government “make work” project is losing people.
How many threats has the TSA stopped?
I'm here to give you my personal experience.
I've had countless experiences in which the TSA has thwarted me. At least half a dozen nail clippers, two or three bottle openers, and countless beverages.
Who will save the economy when we aren't re-purchasing these items after flights?
All the water bottles
I've been 'randomly' screened all but one time for 'extra security' in the last decade (around 12 times). I'm a disabled dude who uses a cane for very short trips, and a chair for things like (shocking) dealing with the 30 minute trip to my gate. I even have PreCheck, because trying to take my shoes off and open my luggage when the right half of my body is basically deadweight isn't the greatest experience.
Also most of these times (10, I think) I also had one or both bags (carry-on and stowed) searched, because of 'unusual' or 'suspicious' objects. The objects in question have once been a laptop (those damn suspicious rectangles!) and the rest were bad dragon dildos. The first time it happened I was embarrassed, but by the 3rd time, I was smirking as they pulled out a big black canine cock, highlighter-pink liger (lion-tiger hybrid) cock, and/or a small marbled purple and cream liger cock, realizing that they are holding it up to inspect it, showing it to everyone in the area - including the children - and then very quickly stuffed it back into the bag.
The only thing tsa is good for is making people lose $125 (or whatever the price is now), embarrassing them, and showing dicks to underage children, essentially.
I've seen other posts of people buying those specifically to fuck with TSA like that. Such a good idea.
I do it because I want to use them on my trip, but :P that's amusing
Multi-purpose dildos!
The best kind ;3
They catch someone trying to board with a gun every month.
Where can I learn more about this from a trustworthy source?
The overwhelmingly vast majority of those are normal travelers who didn’t realize that they weren’t following the rules.
They certainly didn't stop Adam Savage from accidentally taking a foot long razor onto a plane in his carry on.
TSA is the School Resource Officer of airports. They have stopped nothing and cost money that can go to other quality of life projects with better returns, like new bathrooms.
There's no way to quantify that and you know it.
That's the same as asking "How many deaths have seatbelts prevented?" Only the ones that didn't happen...
Airports are required by law to screen their passengers. If everyone from TSA quits because they're not getting paid, who do you think is going to replace them? Do you really think it wouldn't be something worse?
This partial shutdown is happening because of ICE's abuses of power, but ICE is still getting paid. This whole situation is beyond fucked up, and you're choosing to focus on the wrong thing.
Yeah with things like metal detectors. There's no law requiring a bunch of ineffective humans.
Who operates the metal detectors? Are you suggesting we replace humans with AI? Who else do you think would replace them? Because it looks like they'd be replaced by ICE...
Be careful what you fucking wish for
Just like measuring the effectiveness of the TSA, it is possible to measure the effectiveness of seatbelts.
So yes, you can come up with an estimate of how many excess deaths TSA prevented. (Especially since the government tends to try to convict people who were trying to kill people.)
That ignores all the potential incidents that no one ever attempted because of the deterrent effect of security screenings.
That's where the seat belt analogy fails, cause you can still analyze car accidents. Seat belts don't really deter crashing.
But a culture of airline permissiveness like you had in the 80s/90s is much more encouraging to would-be skyjackers/saboteurs than one of compulsive security screenings
And this rock keeps tigers away, how much would you like to pay me for it?
I just want the damned newsletter!
well Homan confirms that ice will be doing part of what TSa doing, so most likely using ice as cannon fodder.