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    1.  🤖 Sonya Mann  🎀‏Verified account @sonyaellenmann Aug 14

      Time for my ritual denunciation of the TSA, which commences every time I go through airport security

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    2. John Backus‏ @backus Aug 14
      Replying to @sonyaellenmann

      After one Defcon, everyone at the airport refused to go through the millimeter-wave scanners, opting for pat downs. The line took like an hour longer but it was pretty funny

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      John Backus‏ @backus Aug 14
      Replying to @backus @sonyaellenmann

      Penn Jillette walks through TSA with a metal “bill of rights” card just so he can set off the metal detector, hand them the card, and say “oh sorry, here take my rights” https://youtu.be/TBrdB7aNOY4  Hess triangle level petty. Inspiring

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        1.  🤖 Sonya Mann  🎀‏Verified account @sonyaellenmann Aug 14
          Replying to @backus

          I'm tempted tbh

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        2. Kelly Reid‏ @kellyreid Aug 16
          Replying to @backus @sonyaellenmann

          As a white male, I go thru airport security on Easy Mode as I watch others get a really hard time. Pisses me off. So, sometimes I opt out of the x-ray scanner, just so I can exercise my right to -force- another human to touch my butt. Take THAT, TSA!

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        3.  🤖 Sonya Mann  🎀‏Verified account @sonyaellenmann Aug 16
          Replying to @kellyreid @backus

          Is this satire

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        4. Kelly Reid‏ @kellyreid Aug 16
          Replying to @sonyaellenmann @backus

          No. The racial profiling infuriates me; in another era my Irish/Jew ("white") self would have been That Guy. The "butt" thing is a way to invert the power dynamic (most people rightly don't want to be touched) by INSISTING I be touched. It's my mild form of civil disobedience.

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        5. Kelly Reid‏ @kellyreid Aug 16
          Replying to @kellyreid @sonyaellenmann @backus

          I sometimes explain to the security officers that this system creates an emergent phenomenon that (to my knowledge) exists nowhere else on earth; A law-given mandate in which I can force someone else to touch my ass.

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        6. Kelly Reid‏ @kellyreid Aug 16
          Replying to @kellyreid @sonyaellenmann @backus

          I find the whole MMWD device creepy, and the opt-out process coercive (well, if you don't want to use the scary x-ray machine, we're going to mildly assault you). The gendering of the opt-out also bothers me. Why assume I am more comfortable being groped by a male vs a female?

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        7. Kelly Reid‏ @kellyreid Aug 16
          Replying to @kellyreid @sonyaellenmann @backus

          And, why assume that a male/female TSA agent is more/less comfortable with a given gender? If "sexuality" is the issue, how do they know I'm not homosexual? How do I know the male agent isn't? It's all bullshit, and the butt thing is my way of lashing out and making a scene.

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        1. St. Cheveré‏ @FishMcready Aug 14
          Replying to @backus @sonyaellenmann

          Jillette explains the gag, then the presenter interrupts to laboriously re-explains the gag, killing any humour it might've contained. We'll never know now.

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