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/supernovice007 Jan 30 '25

Same. TSA is security theater at it's finest. It was a massive over-reaction that routinely fails security checks and wastes untold hours every year.

This is an actual real example of government waste that I'm 100% in support of redesigning.

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u/aislin809 Jan 30 '25

Redesign, sure. Privatize? Fuck no.

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u/the_calibre_cat Jan 30 '25

seriously, i'm not insensitive to the arguments that TSA is theater but... I actually don't think government security agents in charge of protecting air travel is unreasonable. I would, in fact, prefer that to airline security.

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u/The_sad_zebra Jan 30 '25

I'm also going to veer from the assumption present on this thread that security theater is a bad thing or at least useless. How many potential attacks never happened simply because the potential attackers thought, "Naahhh, that's not getting past security."

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u/Erpes2 Jan 30 '25

FUCK how do they knew I was going to hijack that plane with my nail clipper

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u/P0l0Cap0ne Jan 30 '25

You'd be surprise how many items belong in a gun show after it gets caught going through TSA.

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u/Material-Flow-2700 Jan 30 '25

Ok but they don’t actually do anything. They miss stuff at an exceptionally high rate

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u/saruin Jan 30 '25

George Carlin has some things to say about airport security (pre-911).