• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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    NPR was promoting this yesterday!

    On all things considered, they mentioned the long lines and waits, then immediately started praising one Texas airport that was privatized, and didn’t have those waits.

    The TSA is nothing more than security theater anyways, but we gotta find ways to funnel money into those pockets already flush with it I guess.

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      Also consider private security forces don’t have pesky things like “oversight” and “laws regulating fairness”

      Thata why Flock and Palantir exist now

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        Blackwater. But let’s be real, the gov only has the illusion of oversight. In practice most war criminals never face legitimate consequences. The American military industrial complex is the largest terrorist org that has existed since WW2.

        If you add in the fact that US intelligence has allowed child sex traffickers to exist for decades under the guise of “national security”, the US gov is the largest criminal enterprise on Earth, period.

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      Yeah, they didn’t have waits because the private company is paying their workers, so they show up to do the job. TSA isn’t getting paid, so 40+% aren’t showing up.

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    Airport Security before 9/11 looked essentially the same, but they contracted with private security companies. That led to 9/11, so the government took it over and created TSA, and we have t had any hijackings. Now MAGA wants to go back to the system that allowed 9/11, mostly because TSA workers don’t kiss their asses.

    Like getting rid of the Clean Air & Water Act, because we already have clean air and water.

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      The TSA has little to do with the lack of hijacking since 2001. Secured cockpit doors and the widespread belief that hijacking means death are the main reasons it no longer occurs.

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      By your same logic we haven’t had a 9/11 style attack before 9/11 for how many decades? And how many attempts have there been and how many have successfully took weapons on to airliners through TSA since 9/11? The statistics and numbers are very much against the TSA. It’s a useless for show waste of tax dollars when reinforced automated locking doors on aircraft have proven to be a better deterrent at preventing 9/11.