Jess👾Lukewarm take: TSA and Air Traffic Controllers need to be simply funded by an excise tax on airlines, and not subject to annual appropriations bills.
Kevin Karhan 
@JessTheUnstill the #USA needs to fucking take a chill pill either way.
- Being treated worse as legal entrant than a serial murderer in a prison in Germany is just a major dick move.
- And to add insult to injuriy the #US is the only nation notorious for doing vibes-based immigrations with neither recourse nor appeals regardless of existing visa!
@kkarhan TSA isn't the same as CBP (the ones who manage customs). TSA is just the ones who do a simple "does your ID match your ticket" and baggage checking.
@JessTheUnstill I know.
TSA are the assholes that are harrassing people sexually tocthe point that I've yet to hear any non - US-citizen that wasn't mistreated.
@kkarhan Regardless, reorganize under a department whose goal is going to be to make air travel work will be better than being under a department whose goal is that everyone is a criminal until proven otherwise.
@JessTheUnstill precisely…
That's why everywhere else incentives are pushed to make the workflow as frictionless as possible for passengers.
Riley S. Faelan@kkarhan Technically, vibes-based immigration is also a thing in some African countries. The difference is, in Africa, when there's doubt, you typically pass the vibes check by passing a bribe.
@riley @JessTheUnstill I know, and OFC "Passport Privilegue" is very real so a white person from the #EU usually is getting waived through as long as they ain't on some "shit list" to not be let in...
- It would be gaslighting to npt acknowledge that being the case:
- With the one and only non - On-Arrival visa I've ever had to obtain getting rubberstamped within a 15' no-appointment affair (due to being someplace for 22 instead of 21 days), and basically being just a formality (with no questions asked beyond proof of return ticket)...
@kkarhan I have flown to Serbia on an EU ID card once. (Had forgotten to update my passport before it expired.) The immigration official was unhappy about not having anything to stamp, and took some time to consult with his manager, but I got in, and I got out.
@riley @JessTheUnstill Same with like Egypt: They just issued an Tourist card to stamp in.
- Besides, places like Serbia have a vested interest in keeping a positive impression.
@kkarhan That vested interest is a big part of how privilege works.
@riley @JessTheUnstill yeah, I know...