• remon@ani.social
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    1 month ago

    the vicious private army that kidnaps and tortures people for no fucking reason?

    Are you maybe thinking of ICE? This is about the TSA …

    • moody@lemmings.world
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      1 month ago

      They’re (sarcastically) suggesting that a compromise or concession needs to be made (funding ICE) to end the shutdown so that government employees (inculuding TSA) can start getting paid again.

    • lolo@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      I am definitely referring to Border Patrol, ICE, and related organizations.

      Homeland Security is what is being de-funded, affecting all organizations under its umbrella. Both the TSA and ICE are run through HSA, so re-funding HSA means re-funding both.

      This TSA agent needs money and that’s more important than people dying in camps. And they want money for doing nothing, which is what the TSA does. And want us to feel suuuuper sad about them and feel nothing about people murdered in the streets and sent to countries they’ve never been to.

      So fuck them is the conclusion I came to. People in this country are suffering, and they’re not one of them.

      • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
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        1 month ago

        I mean its congress, there isnt only one exclusive answer to the problem. They could literally remove TSA from Homeland Security and put it under the authority of the DOT and give it full funding. Then continue to fight over funding for DHS