This happened earlier today, but I had to wait to post it till now because of a ban award.
Was at the airport for thanksgiving travels, going thru security. Our story centers with the millimeter wave (MW) machine. That's the machine where you walk in, put your hands up, and the thing spins around you. When you step in, the minimum wage TSA worker hits a red button for female and a blue button for male. When I went in they hit the female button, it scanned me and then it beeped. On the screen, it put a box around my crotch. Fricking great.
The poor TSA agent then had to very invasively frisk me. I'll spare you the details. For whatever reason they're really into the frisking at O'hare, compared to other airports where they'll often just give it a single pat or wave me thru. I don't understand why these things have to be so sensitive; they've also detected one of my friend's pads too and she had to get the whole pat down. They're an egregious violation of privacy.
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This is an example of true intersectionality: the axis of oppression of the security apparatus affects everyone, but it often affects individuals in a specific fashion correlating to their idpol classification(s).
As part of my coming essay on the authoritarianism of the United States which developed in the wake of the events of 9/11/2001, there is an imposition into every human being's person which is appropriately termed fascist.
One of the complexities of our form of government is that though our society became more authoritarian in ways which arguably were overtly fascist (the Pledge of Allegiance as a ritual in schools is a prominent example that is far closer to fascism than we should have been comfortable with, though even here there are blurrings of the lines), in this academic's opinion the presidency of Bush II was not fascist nor authoritarian: even though there were irregularities in our elections in Florida which mark a true degradation in our faith in our public institutions, Bush II did not ever intimate that he would stay in office absent a mandate from the system as it was, imperfect as the 2000 election was.
Though the authoritarian nature of our society is revealed in, for instance, the decision to go to war in Iraq over the objections of the left at large, that decision was nevertheless enacted by properly elected legislators.
Our society reacted to the threat of terrorism by exerting more invasive control over every single citizen: this much is incontrovertible. But the arrival at an authoritarian police state was not precipitated by the events of 9/11, merely accelerated by it. Our society had already been a police state the 90s. Truthfully I find it difficult to pin down when the police state truly arrived, because the 60s were marred by debates and clashes between police and the assembled. (Never forget: they killed Kent State students.)
There is this tenuous argument that the invasive nature of TSA screening is part of the systems of control which keep air travel safe. This is how authoritarianism creeps in. Moderates are swayed by safety and the people sounding the warning were outnumbered.
I can say that the millennials arrived on the scene as Obama promised 'change we can believe in' culminating in the political movement known as OWS, whose impact is still being felt today in the populism and anti-elite sentiment of the grassroots right. (They listened, and agreed.)
But OWS was crushed. Arguably it collapsed internally, a movement made up of optimism without a handle on the long term viability of a political movement, but once the media moved on, the police moved in and dispersed the remainder.
You must learn from our mistakes.
The boomer stasis was recognized, you should understand, in the wake of OWS. We were not heard, and the boomers demanded the pre-recuperation of our generation, interpolating their own story and eating the change of their young to their eventual darnation.
The boomer narrative is that of the 60s: they experienced a consciousness shift in which they lived in a New Age of peace, shut down the Vietnam war (eventually), and then got jobs and modulated and moderated their idealism. Their inability to allow any form of change is a sclerotic disease which is second in line to attack.
After we handle the fascism.
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!followers !schizos
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This but unironically.
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Don't talk about authoritarianism and invasive control unless you're against the civil rights act, sweetie.
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REAL libertarians support the right of trans weed farmers to defend their whites-only trans commune from black looters.
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It detected your big gock and the TSA agent was a chaser
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i forgot to ping !cuteandvalid again. tsa crypost this time
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Personally, I volunteer for the pat downs. It's nice to be felt up sometimes.
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this is homosexual and degenerate. this mf likes it when obese tsa agents feel them up
!moidmoment
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my favorite was the guy who nutted when he was getting searched by TSA
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he only does it when its fat black women tsa agent
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touch-starved moid moment
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First off, you obviously enjoyed it.
Second off, get PreCheck like a normal person.
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Lol who travels without precheck and clear
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Clear seems like a headache. They have different 'tiers' of service and the one I tried setting up at SeaTac was like "yeah you don't have to get into the regular TSA line, we'll just hold an appointment for you bro. Just show up half an hour before your flight, bro"
Precheck is fine and works at every airport. I've only seen Clear at SeaTac and MCO
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yeah…you should get PreCheck lol
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Yeah it's so fricked up, those gorillas will fricking karate chop your testicles without a second thought while sweeping the leg
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I had a feeling TSA where coomers like why do they make you take off ur shoes??? You wanna see my dirty socks you pervs???
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Would you rather have them hit the male button? I've never had issues with the body scan, but I did once confuse a Danish security agent when I was traveling with a large number of clocks.
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Thinking about just yelling "MALE" when i get in the scanner next time
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Cool clock, ResneedingSyndrome. Want to bring it to the White House?
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You know you can opt out of those and just have the TSA do a normal metal detector/pat down, right?
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That just skips a step and goes right to the ball frisking
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That's the best part tho
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I've never seen a machine have two modes for female or male
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Here is a pamphlet advertising the scanner. Note the interface on the 3rd page, with the blue and reddish pink button for scanning.
https://www.leidos.com/sites/leidos/files/2020-07/fs-leidos-safeview.pdf
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Neither has he.
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Who are you referring to?
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No you aren't.
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She isn't?
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total TSA death
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That copypasta will get us all posted on a watchlist but I agree 100%
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i hate them so much
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The classic TSA handjob
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MALE
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I always ask them to finish me off if they're gonna get me hard
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You got what you always wanted.
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i absolutely did not want that
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reported for misinformation
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i did not and do not want an obese woman rubbing my thighs
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Look at you now, you're fantasizing about it still/again!
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It's a fetish (for @finna)
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So you are foid that pretended to be a guy to bring a grenade to a jet ?
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Unironically this would probably work given that its made of an inconspicuous material (some machines also can detect explosive materials).
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They really need a button on those machines.
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Lil otp hand jibber
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The machines throw a fit whenever I'm on my period. I guess the area shows up hotter then. They just patted down my front and back and confirmed the only bulk was a pad, nbd. I felt they were pretty respectful and they offered to take me somewhere private but I was like, just get it over with. Though if I was those poor female TSA agents, I would be tight having to pat shenises.
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Oh shit you live in Chicago too?
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