supernova215Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution
Funny, everyone outside of the US should exercise increased caution when dealing with or visiting the US.
Indeed, particularly given that ICE agents are going to be deployed to airports. Their penchant for killing civilians and otherwise violating civil rights only to lie about their actions hardly seems like a good fit for airport security duties they haven’t been trained to perform.
> duties they haven't been trained to perform
Which implies they've been trained?
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I travelled to the US some weeks ago and was anxious but everything turned out ok. I'm happy I don't have to go back any time soon.
Translation:
Your fears were unfounded paranoia fueled by sensationalist media and that's why everything was fine but instead of correcting your priors you're just assuming you "got lucky".
The media induced derangement on display here is fascinating.
Or maybe he just got lucky.
Impossible to prove otherwise. No reason to try his luck.
For about a decade there has been heavy media incitement against the United States and staunch allies of the United States - both against her government and against her traditional values. For some people it's all they ever see online.
With their herd-like downvoting of any expression of the damage that the United States' enemies do, or even casual defense of traditional values, many people who are active online know which side to take, at least online, because one side leads to accolades and uplikes while the other side leads to literal threats, exclusion, and cancellation.
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And all of them different from the last and/or contradicting each other at times.
It's like throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.
Probably spaghetti.
This war is not a war. Not a.war war. Just a "war". No war has been declared.
We already won. Are you tired of winning yet?
It might have something to do with the nation which chants "Death to America" also developing nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles.
The U.S. government shutdown has halted pay to the TSA, but not ICE, so ICE is taking over from the TSA in airports[1]. If you fly to the U.S., starting Monday apparently, the first think you're likely to see is masked gunmen giving you the eye.
No thankyou.
TSA is mostly people who want a job and act pretty professionally in the hundreds or thousand times I’ve encountered them. ICE encourages people with anger issues who hate brown people to apply. These are not the same.
it isn’t about people and which group is mostly this or that. Americans have long accepted to have their Constitutional Rights violated at the airports so it really doesn’t matter if it is TSA or ICE or whatever three-letter gang runs it
This is binary thinking that has no place in predicting the real world. In practice, the specific person violating your constitutional rights makes a big difference in how badly your rights are violated.
I feel like "form your own private paramilitary organisation with minimal oversight, then expand their reach by having them take over the operations of other government departments" has been done before somewhere, as part of a larger plan.
It has. (Unless you're being sarcastic, in which case I'm not surprised it went over my head. Lol.)
They dont have all the skills to do anything super complex in a sustainable way. Already proved in the first term. What their existence demonstrates is winning election is not super complex if you can find enough groups to precisely target and pander/capture attention. Social media has been a force multiplier for such behavior and the people that have emerged dont have any other skill other than attention capture. But thats short term win like full focus on marketing while product and operations have no hope of catching up. Every "large plan" will fail. Large plans in complex ever changing environments always need massive cooperation of very different skills. Never happens sustainably with just one skill dominating all.
Would anyone argue that the TSA, Theatre Security Agency, shouldn’t be defunded?
The TSA is responsible for more than just airports. As someone with family who works (worked) on port security in the maritime division, I would argue that Chesterton's Fence [0] applies here just as much as anywhere else.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...
Enter the country and you interact with CBP and that hasn't changed. CBP agents are the ones who murdered the legal observers in Minneapolis so there's that.
TSA checks bags for commercial airlines which is a service that should never have been nationalized.
It will be so much fun to watch the World Cup from outside the US...
This is so non-specific to be meaningless.
Like actually tell us what you know so we can make useful decisions about our safety.
Would the current state of affairs qualify for cancelling the mid-terms? Is that overly cynical?
Not in the US, not a US citizen or voter. My suspicion is the answer is "no, but it is not a given that a competent supreme court which looks likely to overturn the WH exists, if they say they want to do this"
No, there is no mechanism in the US for cancelling elections. Plus elections are managed at the local and state levels anyway, so the federal government is extremely limited in what they could even do. Trump can do a lot of damage and that could potentially include attempts to ignore the election results, but there is no realistic way he actually cancels elections preemptively.