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spiritofamermaid said:
The thing I hate the most about the TSA (other than that they exist) is that every airport is different. I fly a lot from a lot of different airports, and the amount of times I've been yelled at over the past ten years for putting my suitcase in a bin, for not putting it in a bin, for taking electronics out, for not taking them out, etc., is ridiculous. Even the TSA site itself is like "yeah it's totally up to the local agent on what is ok or not" when it comes to what's allowed. How is it federally regulated but every airport is different?? There aren't any state regs!!

Total TSA death. One of the few cases where I don't even feel the tiniest bit of sympathy for people losing their jobs in the process.
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And that's why you ask the guy there beforehand. I used to fly a good bit and that shit annoys me too, but most of the time you can just ask for clarification and you'll be in the good graces of whoever got the short straw to repeat the policy message for the day.
 
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spiritofamermaid said:
The thing I hate the most about the TSA (other than that they exist) is that every airport is different. I fly a lot from a lot of different airports, and the amount of times I've been yelled at over the past ten years for putting my suitcase in a bin, for not putting it in a bin, for taking electronics out, for not taking them out, etc., is ridiculous. Even the TSA site itself is like "yeah it's totally up to the local agent on what is ok or not" when it comes to what's allowed. How is it federally regulated but every airport is different?? There aren't any state regs!!

Total TSA death. One of the few cases where I don't even feel the tiniest bit of sympathy for people losing their jobs in the process.
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I've been to a few airports in various states, so maybe it's different elsewhere, but the TSA hires almost exclusively retarded browns and a small handful of annoying white people. It's a jobs program, it's a patronage network, much like most federal agencies. All of the TSA agents I've seen aren't fit to be mall cops let alone somehow protecting our national security.

They exists as regime enforcers to keep you compliant. I don't even think anyone else believes they keep anyone "safe" anymore. With TSA Precheck and Clear, they offer you ways to pay not to have to do the song and dance with the peasants if you don't feel like it. It is not about safety.
 
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Useful_Mistake said:
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Just to add some hilarious context on this for the Army:

To stay in the army you need to pass a yearly physical fitness test*. The Army, ever since they admitted women to serve, has had one test for women and another for men. The "Cold war/Post cold" war test gave a points rating and you earned points depending on how old you were and how much you did in Run/Pushups/Situps and it included a BMI measurement (with option for test that Body Mass calculation because miliary service will usually put on enough muscle to fuck the usual BMI)
Women's scores were fractional compared to the men's requirements.

Around 2015 the army, as women sobbed for combat roles, the army began looking a gender-neutral test - new events meant to better simulate combat tasks, and a gender-neutral tiered system for "POG" "Might do combat but probably won't or rides in tanks" and "Tip of the spear, Hooah".
This quickly fell right the fuck apart as the average combat-role woman couldn't even pass the average male POG and they went back to scores for men and women.

So by just declaring yourself as trooning out, you could go from "Office worker" to "Ranger".
 
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RodgerDodger said:
Press X to doubt there are 15,000 troons in the Military.
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There's definitely a disproportionate number. It can't be overstated how many signed up thinking it was an easy way to free surgery. More than half of the 4yr commitment will be taken up by post-op recovery and treatment and then there's nothing you can reasonably do after because of your "condition". Added bonus for any complications that qualify for lifetime disability once they're out.
 
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Breadbassket said:
Here are the countries where PEPFAR operated and the impact the program apparently had.

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Just like 99% of government programs, most of the money is spent on bureaucracy and busy work.

Slight powerlevel, but I audit a not for profit company that is essentially a passthrough for programs like this. I've read the contracts and seen the "deliverables" that are required for the money.
These programs paid out $50,000 to a Ugandan doctor to write 4 copy-pasted reports on how female patients used contraceptives. Another $90,000 for a conference at one of the Hiltons in Ivory Coast, plus $15,000 in airfare costs for attendees. $145,000 for fucking ads like these to tell these retarded niggers to stop raping/being raped and to wear condoms.
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The best part about it is the salaries of the people in this passthrough company are also paid with the grant funds, mostly for "supervisory" tasks.
 
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NSA Intern said:
Kurt Vonnegut warned about the end-result of it all the way back in the sixties.

Harrison Bergeron - Wikipedia

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My understanding is that Vonnegut wrote "Harrison Bergeron" as a satire of what he saw as conservative pearl-clutching baseless fears about the slippery slope of egalitarianism leading inevitably toward communism. I'd like to think that if he were still alive, he would have to admit, however reluctantly, that many of the objections he raised were not only legitimate but depressingly prescient.
 
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