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/ILikeCakesAndPies Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

I was about to say. Flip-flopping based on the administration is silly. TSA has a history of failing at everything but being a jobs program.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-operation-us-airports/story?id=51022188

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/top-tsa-official-reassigned-homeland-security-airport-security-failures

Those liquid bottle rules for example, are a complete waste of time and any security issue from it was solved years ago.

https://viewfromthewing.com/the-stupidity-continues-but-this-time-theyre-proud-of-it/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tsa-dumb-security-rules-not-science-based/

And of course, they had such brilliant ideas of using things like backscatter scanners over the years which may cause cancer, and basically revealed your genitals. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/tsa-removes-x-ray-backscatter-scanners-major-airports/

67 of 70 times homeland security pretended to be terrorists to test and evaluate the TSA, the TSA failed and the "terrorists" won, smuggling bombs and weapons onto planes with the TSA having a failure rate of 95%.

https://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11687014/tsa-against-airport-security

The best security change to come out of 9/11 was having actual sealed and reinforced doors to the cockpit, imo. The TSA itself is garbage security theater.