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[–] [email protected] 379 points 1 month ago (83 children)

The TSA is something that shouldn't exist in its current form. They very often fail their audit checks and normalize invading your privacy to an extreme degree like body scanners and pat downs. If water bottles are considered potentially explosive then why dump them on a bin next to a line of people where they can go off? This is low grade security theater that inconveniences passengers at best.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (29 children)

The main reason why it exists is to provide jobs. The number of people who work at the TSA at every airport in every state...no representative wants to cut those jobs.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Could we pay them to dig a ditch and fill it back in again? It'd be just as useful.

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

No, it'd be more useful just on account of the harm they are not doing. I don't give a rat's ass what they do instead, hell, do a huge UBI experiment and just let them chill. Might as well.

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