The TSA is a joke. It's security theater. President George W Bush and most Republicans in congress at that time wanted it to show people they were serious about security, and the Democrats in congress at the time saw it as another huge government agency that could be unionized.

Shortly after it was created (in the aftermath of 9-11 and with most Americans thinking it was going to protect them from future airborne terrorism by so-called Islamic Extremists) it was caught waving-through persons dressed as [presumed] Muslim females in face-covering bulky garments (which could have disguised ANY person, Muslim or not, and Male or Female) in order to not offend. This is NOT an actual matter of Islam, it's about an agency being so PC that it would allow through, without screening, any person disguised as a person in the very sort of category the average citizen would have expected to be MORE scrutinized, given the nature of the risk that supposedly justified the creation of the agency in the first place.

The current administration is flying plane-loads of illegal aliens all around the country without knowing anything about who they are. This WAS a case of simply accepting whatever name, nationality, and age the immigrant claimed at the border (with NO DOCUMENTS) but now includes the administration sending empty planes to other countries and scooping up illegals and flying them into the country (again with NO VERIFIABLE DOCUMENTATION).

IF you are an American, however, step-up and get examined, scanned, groped, background-checked, luggage-inspected, etc.

This is NOT about security. It's about CONTROL and about ILLUSION.

They are lying. We Know they are lying. They know we know they are lying. And they keep lying anyway.

The single most law-violating entity within the US Government wants you to know it's now only violating the plain text of The United States Constitution (not some ordinary law, but the basic contract between the people and the government) 59K+ times per year, and while it happily destroys the lives of average people it finds violating the law, it has NEVER actually prosecuted a single FBI employee for a single one of these now exceeding 250K+ federal crimes. Oh, and be sure to be distracted by this and not notice that the agency is refusing to answer congressional questions about this and is currently refusing to honor numerous congressional subpoenas...so apparently the agency thinks it is beyond oversight and unanswerable to anybody.

It's all good! Thumbs up, everybody! Nothing to see here... everything's double-plus good!

Oh, and for any Republicans reading this: Your party is LYING to you when it campaigns claiming to be angry about ANY of this... The majority of the GOP in the House, led by their Speaker, worked with the Democrats to buy the FBI a huge new headquarters and passed a new record-breaking budget that FUNDS this activity. The leaders in BOTH political parties in D.C. are working hand-in-glove with each other in support of this.

If that were true, you would have left well enough alone. Instead, you've had your little cultural revolution.

It's us normies who were minding our own business. It's you who enacted your weird obsessions.

Please, Vince was just a really tough guy. And it's hard to write after you dared to piss off Hillary. Have you see her when she's angry? Your hands would be shaking too!

What do you mean "there may come a limit in the future"? The limit has been on since the dawn of our species, exists today and second law of thermodynamics remains a proven scientific theory.

The funniest part is that you and your ilk keep telling on yourself without ever realising it. And since your religion is about strict thought control and totalizing morality at societal level, you all have exact same carbon copy arguments.

Look around this exact thread. You'll find so many carbon copies of yourself, all making the exact same error because of your totalized far left morality and how it breaks your cognitive systems on this topic in this exact same way. Making you utterly incapable of understanding the argument made, and instead projecting utterly insane claims upon me instead to maintain mental balance.

You got elected into power over your widely internationally recognized autonomous region by its inhabitants?

I want to know more. Please tell me more.

>We know of these people because they were lucky. Not because they are superior specimens.

That was the most casual evolution denialism I've ever seen. And I used to be among the New Atheists.

Please cite the evidence to contrary. Considering the reality, this should be a really short and easy task, as it would contain nothing.

I have no idea about your experience, but I spent a large amount of my formative years working in hospitals and hospices, because I wanted a different experience entirely. I have performed nurse's duties and nurse's assistant's duties.

And considering that you obviously didn't comprehend a word I said, instead arguing against something I never said, I'm going to assume you had the same problem with nurses you worked with

And that's what i mean. You cannot fathom a world where morality isn't totalized. Your mind is simply crippled by your belief system, and the only way it can get you out of cognitive dissonance of my previous post, is to attribute prima facie absurd opinions I never even remotely alluded to to me.

Because otherwise you'd have to engage with my actual argument, and that would crash your entire world view. So your mind reels and instead goes to the absurd for salvation.

Wait, publishing things about a conspiracy theory make it true?

Holy shit, flat earth is real.

Sure. Good parenting advice: move next to your own parents, and friend group. Childproof the house. Have more than one child, so the older one can take some of the responsibility off you as well.

And now, the most important advice, that most people that become parents follow. Abandon far left religious and moral tenets, and instead grasp the normative tenet of personal responsibility over far left ideal of totalized social responsibility. And since you've demonstrated yourself to be a far leftist, I probably need to state the obvious too: marry the member of opposite sex you plan to have children with, take your oaths to that person seriously, embrace responsibility for your own life and that of the rest of your family and abandon degenerate habits and behaviors if you have any.

I know, I know. That means I'm crazy, far right, incel, childless, impotent, and generally awful human being. The advice stands on its own merit in spite of whatever personality flaws you project upon me.

I suspect this has been my most impactful post in terms of cognitive pain I've caused the far left wing on slashdot in a long time. Because I hit the nail on the head with appeal to personal responsibility in the single most personal thing for which you're undeniably most responsible. Your progeny.

All while the core within far left religious morality is total abdication of personal responsibility in favor of collective responsibility of entirety of society.

The accusations and red herrings are utterly absurd. We're now down to "but you can't watch the child 100% of the time, and I don't care how much family support is available".

Hilariously any parent knows that grandparents are probably the most important resource to tap once children come into picture, because they can take off significant portion of responsibility for watching over the children. Next you'll probably argue that siblings also play no role.

The cognitive dissonance you and your cohorts are suffering from is truly driving you to make the most prima facie insane statements.