Things didn’t end well for the last guy…

  • BoofStroke@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    Sorry, but unemployed TSA should get no sympathy. In fact, if you want to kill government programs, it should be at the front of the line. Pork barrel security theater bullshit.

    Fuck the TSA and the idiots on power trips working for them.

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      9 days ago

      It’s not the employees’ fault, saying they should get no sympathy is a dick move.

      That aside, I agree the TSA is a great example of the kind of spending that needs cut and the department dissolved.

      • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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        9 days ago

        Have you seen the kind of people these kinds of jobs attracts? We aren’t talking about Starbucks workers, we are mostly talking about people that get off on power trips.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 days ago

      For real. Like Fox News pundits, they’re being paid to not understand the consequences of their own work. They’re a drain on tax funds performing ineffective security theater at the cost of convenience, privacy, and sometimes the flights of ordinary people. If you’re TSA, you should consider something else that would be of greater social benefit.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 days ago

      How about their kids? Should they get sympathy? Because these people won’t be able to feed them.

      Government shutdowns affect far more than just the employees, and in this case those employees are literally being used as slaves. Maybe that deserves sympathy too… unless you think “idiots on power trips” deserve to be enslaved. I don’t think anyone does personally.

      • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
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        8 days ago

        Do you have that same attitude towards ICE agents kids?

        People lose their jobs all the time and still feed their kids. A government shutdown is a good thing.

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          8 days ago

          Yes, I do. Because people deserve to be paid. Not paying someone and forcing them to work has a name. Slavery.

          If you get hired for a job, even if it’s an immoral job, you deserve to be paid. People who work at payday loan places, people who work for TurboTax, people who work on oil rigs, people who work on factory farms and slaughterhouses all deserve to be paid and children do not deserve to suffer because politicians can’t get their shit together.

          A government shutdown is in no way a good thing just because certain government departments you personally don’t like will not pay their employees. There’s a lot of other people who are helpful that also will not be getting paid.

          Or do you think it’s a good thing to not have things like air traffic controllers and food inspectors? If so, you’re a libertarian and you will be very unhappy with Trump’s dictatorship.