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Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

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Re: Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

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Post by tombert »

nandomrumber wrote: post #75
beloch wrote: post #32

The 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

Would anyone argue that the TSA, Theatre Security Agency, shouldn’t be defunded?

There's an argument for that, though I think replacing it with Trump's basically-unregulated private military is pretty concerning.

Re: Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

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Post by encrypted_bird »

daemonologist wrote: post #60
encrypted_bird wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're not; they're speaking colloquially: this is the word "It's" omitted from the beginning. --- *EDIT*: Corrected word. Lol.

"It's," perhaps?

Yeah, nope, you're right. Not sure why my brain thought "The". Haha. I blame on the roughlu 2½ hours of sleep I got last night. Yay insomnia!

Re: Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

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Post by encrypted_bird »

ajkjk wrote: post #71
encrypted_bird wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has. (Unless you're being sarcastic, in which case I'm not surprised it went over my head. Lol.)

of course they were

Hey, tone doesn't translate well over text, they did not use anu tone tags, and I'm already terrible at reading tone in the best of times. Lol, can you really blame me for at least asking? Haha.

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Post by nandomrumber »

cdrnsf wrote: post #29
1over137 wrote: post #16

Earlier 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.

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Post by dotancohen »

tremon wrote: post #67
dzonga wrote: post #35

why 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.

In what part of the world does the populace not suffer for the incompetence of their leaders? St. Petersburg? Ramallah? Port Au Prince?

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Post by nandomrumber »

giwook wrote: post #23
bdangubic wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

20 or so far, there is a new one each day

And all of them different from the last and/or contradicting each other at times. It's like throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.

Probably spaghetti.
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