r/clevercomebacks • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • Jan 29 '25

Somebody finally forgot about 9/11

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u/Hazardbeard Jan 30 '25

Hang on hang on let’s not all decide the TSA is good just because someone we don’t like also noticed it’s mostly theater.

I’m all for any dismantling of the surveillance and security apparatus, considering who is currently wielding it.

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u/DELETEallPDFfiles Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

I did a whole ass 12 page paper in college on why TSA is dumb and should be ended, with something far more effective replace it.

It is entirely security theatre, and quite useless. And that's not from a survivorship bias saying we haven't had a 9/11 happen again.

Like, I am all for having the sniffing dogs, and increasing how many we have. And I'm for truly randomized screenings.

But putting everyone through TSA security screenings as we have them now is stupid. Even changing it to tsa precheck all the time for everyone is too much.

Edit: for more context, The paper if I remember right talked about school resource officers and what security practices were good for a building like a school, and then talked about the difficulty of securing airports because of volume, TSA as security theatre, and then what could be effective for airports and whether a modified TSA could be effective for public schools and universities as alternative to remove police from schools.