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  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    23·
    15 days ago

    Everyone should have realized it was security theater when nobody was asked to remove their underwear after the underwear bomber.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab

    Next up is to ditch the fluid restrictions.

    “I’m sorry, that’s too much fluid, here, let me dispose of it right next to this massive line of people in case it has an explosive, chemical, or biological component…”

    • Zak@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      15 days ago

      I do think Trump’s weird immunity to consequences (if this was fiction, I’d call it plot armor) is a factor in this. Everybody in authority had to know it was pointless security theater from the beginning, but being seen as reducing protection from terrorism in any way politically dangerous.