Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers

• HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s very hard for me to care if cancer rates for TSA agents go through the roof; they willingly signed up for that shit, so fuck 'em.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Let’s be fair.

    They signed up to be the lowest of the overly-entitled rentacops out there. that’s on them.

    They didn’t sign up to get irradiated by some shady shit that the FCC is all “no. Fuck off” about when asked about safety concerns.

    So let’s render unto Caesar on this one. The FCC (FAA? I may have that wrong) are huge dinks for knowingly subjecting their people to rads way in excess of what’s cool – worse if you look at the TSA people and realize they aren’t pasty-whites and then it’s mean to minorities.

    And Logan intl are dinks, just like whatever union the TSA people are in, for not supporting and protecting the staff. That lawsuit is gonna be like Erin Brockovich II .

    And this just reminds you that if they could get other jobs then they will. The people who can’t dead-sea-effect out of here are gonna be absolutely employable elsewhere. And that fills me with a warm and fuzzy feeling about TSA agents and their international emulants.

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    • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They signed up to be the lowest of the overly-entitled rentacops out there. that’s on them.

      Exactly my point.

      The FCC (FAA? I may have that wrong)

      I’m pretty sure that the TSA falls under the Dept. of Homeland Security, as does Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

      realize they aren’t pasty-whites and then it’s mean to minorities.

      You see that makes it worse, right? You’ve got a lot of non-white people signing up for the job of a rent-a-cop so that they can abuse the same kind of authority that is leveled against the populations that the job attracts. It’s like a black kid on the south side of Chicago looking at the ways that CPD abuses suspects and say, goddamn, how do I get into that gig?

      And this just reminds you that if they could get other jobs then they will.

      Eh. Maybe some of them. Maybe. But policing attracts a specific kind of person that wants that job; sometimes it’s people that are genuinely white knights, but they generally get run out pretty fast. More often it’s people that want authority. Given that TSA pay ain’t great, and that we’re in an era–temporarily, if Trump wins–of historic high employment, I don’t think that too many of the people in the TSA are really stuck there.

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