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That's the brilliance though. The TSA, customer service, and every other wish-they-could-be fascist organization operates by distancing enforcement from policy decisions.

Every try debating a TSA agent about how many explosive shoes they've seen in their careers? They just have a job to do. They aren't allowed to think -- they just follow their state diagram. "Shoes on? Yell until shoes come off. Why? Because that's what the chart says."

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Those workers are not paid enough to pay attention. I wish we could remove the Rapiscan machines and use that money to train and pay TSA staff. Then we might get security instead of just the theater.

> Every try debating a TSA agent about how many explosive shoes they've seen in their careers?

No. As a dark-skinned person with a short beard/light stubble, I doubt that would go over well....

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