One (1) person tries to blow up a plane with bombs hidden in his shoes: For the next 24 years everyone who boards a plane has to take off their shoes first
Over 400,000 shootings in 11 years: What can we do, these things just happen 
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Flight travel is profitable, keeping children alive surprisingly isn't. Sorry, that's just the infinite wisdom of the market at work.
It would actually be really funny to publish a study evaluating the cost of this policy over the last 24 years, even in bullshit neoliberal economic analysis.
Looking at the cost of time primarily - how long taking shoes on and off adds to the process, how many man hours have to go into TSA to do THAT specifically, the average wage of a traveler and the lost "value of their time" from the extra wait, and all of this multiplied by the hundreds of millions of flights per year.
That's what we're willing to spend to keep airlines profitable because people get spooked off flying due to a really weird and niche terrorist attack for like, a week, but we won't spend a goddamn DIME to stop children being ventilated in the halls of their schools.
Leaving the business of keeping children alive to parents and community members by their own uncompensated toil and at their own expense is very profitable
That's what we're willing to spend to keep airlines profitable because people get spooked off flying due to a really weird and niche terrorist attack for like, a week,
While I'm sure they appreciated this, I have always believed that the primary purpose of the TSA was to normalize the police state
edit: I believe even preventing plane related demolition was secondary to this
I thought it was a tool to remind you that you live in constant danger, so you consent to neverending war in the middle east.
Thank God, I normally charge $20 to take off my shoes, I appreciate TSA not sneaking in a free show from me
Laughs in randomly chosen for enhanced checking..
"oh cool! i got SSSS rank on my boarding pass! what do i win?"
"racial abuse"
my diabetic ass with my insulin pump even though the idea of someone putting 1mL of nitroglycerin or some other explosive into an insulin pump to use as a weapon is fucking stupid. TSA loves putting their grubby hands on my insulin pump to 'check for explosive residue' fuck off AHHHH
Sorry it was because of my wicked feet.
That's why George pays you, comrade
Hell yeah
Shoe Bomber 2.0 time
So maybe in another 24 years we'll be allowed to bring water bottles on planes again
No that brings in so much $$$ it's never going away 😭
like i'll ever afford a flight
the nation is healing, at long last
I hope the congressional cafeteria still serves freedom fries. Some wounds can never heal 
This is being pushed by Big Footwear to keep your feet imprisoned within the cages they sell to you.
Of course. I literally just bought slip on shoes for a flight yesterday.
Pack them anyway - they're phasing this out in different airports and one of your stops may not have the machines they prefer.
Passengers flying out of Hancock International Airport in Syracuse, New York, did not have to take off their shoes on Monday, CNN affiliate WSTM reported. However, on Tuesday morning at Chicago O’Hare, CNN affiliate WLS saw passengers still being asked to remove footwear.
foot fetish TSA agents in shambles rn, spare them some of your thoughts.
Only brown people.
