@splendorr
>No one is trying to hijack planes

*stares in the 1970s and 80s*

@jonathankoren @splendorr

The security theater TSA performs is not terribly effective, in any case.

@jonathankoren @splendorr

At least if we had no airport security people would KNOW we had no airport security, which is arguably better than having a big wasteful clown show where security should be.

The current administration would set up their own false flag hijacking to bring on Patriot Act round 2 if they get itchy enough, we all know it, and the TSA ain't gonna be able to do jack shit about that even if their job was real.

@violetmadder @jonathankoren hi i don’t care about views, i may be a dumb bitch but have never deliberately been a troll 😄

according to wikipedia, there was a period in the 60s and 70s when there was a hijacking every ~5 days. that’s a lot!

by the 90s, around the world, we were at an average of ~17/year. looks like there are between 8-9 MILLION flights per year 😱

Statistically, we had it pretty much solved before the TSA 🤷‍♀️

@violetmadder @jonathankoren and yeah, we want to prevent every case of possible harm to large numbers of people.

at least, I do! the united states doesn’t seem to actually care much about this; cf. gun violence and our covid response

but the total global inconvenience and loss of privacy (AND increased hassle & detainment of folks who’ve done nothing wrong) seeeeeems like in total we’ve wound up hurting a lot more people with the “cure”