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Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution
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#62The U.S. government shutdown has halted pay to the TSA, but not ICE, so ICE is taking over from the TSA in airports[1]. If you fly to the U.S., starting Monday apparently, the first think you're likely to see is masked gunmen giving you the eye. No thankyou. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cede0qyvqz3o
I feel like "form your own private paramilitary organisation with minimal oversight, then expand their reach by having them take over the operations of other government departments" has been done before somewhere, as part of a larger plan.
It has. (Unless you're being sarcastic, in which case I'm not surprised it went over my head. Lol.)
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#63I got jumped in Italy couple of weeks ago. I was wearing a "volleyball dad" hoodie my kid bought for me but did not realize that the "volleyball dad" is etched in the middle of a large American flag covering my entire back. Luckily (for him, not me :) ) three police officers were 10 meters away walking the area dealing with apre ski drunks and restrained him. fun times
oof I would not wear an American flag outside the country. We've hurt too many feelings. Like any good American though, a Canadian flag works.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Indeed, particularly given that ICE agents are going to be deployed to airports. Their penchant for killing civilians and otherwise violating civil rights only to lie about their actions hardly seems like a good fit for airport security duties they haven’t been trained to perform.
> duties they haven't been trained to perform
Which implies they've been trained?
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
TSA is mostly people who want a job and act pretty professionally in the hundreds or thousand times I’ve encountered them. ICE encourages people with anger issues who hate brown people to apply. These are not the same.
it isn’t about people and which group is mostly this or that. Americans have long accepted to have their Constitutional Rights violated at the airports so it really doesn’t matter if it is TSA or ICE or whatever three-letter gang runs it
This is binary thinking that has no place in predicting the real world. In practice, the specific person violating your constitutional rights makes a big difference in how badly your rights are violated.
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#67why are common people paying for the incompetence of a gvt. to not be political this lies at the heart of principles, morals, meritocracy values that the current gvt lacks & things that drove america forward.
That's because the common people voted for the incompetent. Not being political either, of course.
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#68why are common people paying for the incompetence of a gvt. to not be political this lies at the heart of principles, morals, meritocracy values that the current gvt lacks & things that drove america forward.
People vote for the current government. I’m not sure why you would expect others’ to pay for americas internal messes, we’re already busy dealing with the external ones.
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#69Trump wrecks everything he touches.
Bankrupting a casino is a literal thing he did and also a pretty decent metaphor for what he's doing now.
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#70This is so non-specific to be meaningless. Like actually tell us what you know so we can make useful decisions about our safety.
> Like actually tell us what you know so we can make useful decisions about our safety
"Americans abroad should follow the guidance in security alerts issued by the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate."