• Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
    168·
    4 days ago

    Boy am I glad they’re making sure a terrorist with a bomb can’t get onto a plane to kill a lot of people packed together in a crowded place.

  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
    83·
    3 days ago

    Why don’t they just let people take their assault rifles onto the plane such that they can defend themselves? Are they stupid?

    • AxExRx@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      You dont give up your right to free speech when you get on a plane, why around you give up the right to bear arms?

      • line from an old prairie home companion when I was a kid.
  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    171·
    3 days ago

    There are several terminals with security checkpoints, this does not represent “JFK Airport” as a whole. This shown terminal is T5, JetBlue’s terminal.

    Edit: who downvoted, lol. I’ve been to JFK 4 times this week. Nothing I said is untrue. It literally says Jetblue check in on the sign. Go pound sand.

    • AxExRx@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      Have you visited the other terminals as well? Are they significantly better and this is an outlier, or is this typical peak hours for jfk right now?

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        Yes. Though I obviously didn’t tour the airport looking for problems. Delta’s was long but not awful. AA’s was relatively short. Didn’t see the international terminal. No idea what constitutes “peak”, but NY is heading into NY school’s spring break season, so things will get busy for the airports.

  • stumu415@lemmy.zip
    912·
    4 days ago

    Good thing the US has a high speed railway network like China, Japan, Europe or Morocco, so you don’t need to get on a plane. Oh… wait…

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      3 days ago

      I hear Elon Musk is getting right on that. These conservatives are so efficient and successful! Good thing we keep finding new tax breaks for them.

  • xSikes@feddit.onlineEnglish
    521·
    3 days ago

    The sad thing about this is that most Trump supporters probably don’t fly because either they’re always in their own bubble and/or can’t afford to. So they can’t relate to this, so it’s a non-issue sadly.

    • FackCurs@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      They don’t fly because God invented the car, Jesus built the highways and St Peter gave republicans the car keys.

      Why share a plane with other Americans when you can just drive around, as god intended ?

      • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
        1·
        2 days ago

        To be fair, road trips ARE a thing, and it’s not just because of cost and random religious factors. Sometimes seeing the countryside is really cool in addition to the destination’s reason.

      • tired_n_bored@lemmy.world
        13·
        3 days ago

        Thank you. To give another example, in Italy it is necessary to approve the budget by 31st of December. If this doesn’t happen the budget is controlled by the government but with limitations and only one month at a time. I think it’s a good compromise not to let the country collapse.

        • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
          7·
          3 days ago

          I think it’s a good compromise not to let the country collapse.

          I agree for most countries.

    • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
      24·
      3 days ago

      Only once a year? Are you talking about the US, because it seems to have stopped working quite some time ago.

    • altphoto@lemmy.today
      4·
      3 days ago

      I wish he got an airport award!

      I just created the “Me, I think he deserves an airport award” award and I’m honored to…

      Anyway, squirrel!

    • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
      1·
      2 days ago

      The flights are probably a mixed bag. There are also cases where they just open up the lines and let everyone through without passing through security screening. It’s happened a few times, though I’ve never gotten so lucky.

      • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        Could you imagine if you were on hour 10 of waiting through the line, just managed to get to the front and then they told everyone to just go through? I’d cuss someone out hard.

  • fox2263@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    3 days ago

    I’d honestly just cancel my holiday instead going through that trauma.

    • Spezi@feddit.org
      14·
      3 days ago

      I’d much rather have Camacho as the president. At least he knew that he should trust people smarter than him.

      • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.caEnglish
        18·
        3 days ago

        Camacho was a great president. I submit the following:

        1. When faced with a problem he didn’t know how to solve, he appointed the best person he could find and listened to their advice.

        2. Upon realizing that he made a mistake, he reversed course and corrected.

        3. I don’t think he ever raped a minor.

    • modus@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      The racist, hillbilly morons who voted for this are not “jet-setters.” They’ve probably never even been on a jet.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 days ago

        You underestimate the number of half-wit yuppies who are MAGA. The number of them in my home city is absurd and theyre the exact fucking reason the area is even urbanizing while they bitch about urbanizing factors is absurd, sorry Janice but the light industry is an expected economic factor for a city population. Sincerely a SoCal Hick.

        • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
          3·
          2 days ago

          Right? People seem to forget that ~50% of voters went for dump. That’s not 100% rural and 0% urban, 100% rich and 0% poor… There are a lot of assholes who have money (lawyers, doctors, small business owners, engineers, teachers, nurses, police, firemen, emts, pilots, office workers in healthcare, government bureaucrats, etc., etc.) that think they ‘earned’ all that money and ‘the left’ (super big air quotes with a funny voice on that one) just wants to take it from them and give it to the stoner living in the basement of his grandmother’s friend who looks at him funny on sunday nights when she asks him if he wants to share some of her beef stew. There’s also a lot of folks who are in a trailer on the property that their great-grandparents once owned, along with their 3 siblings, 7 cousins, and 11 second cousins in their own trailers, while their father and aunt and uncle fight over who gets to keep living in the actual house after someone clogged the septic system over the weekend, and sure, they vote republican and will never get on a jet, but they’re likely the minority, humorously enough.