BTW these things also scan the genital area. If an unoperated trans woman passes through, it flags her for having a hidden weapon in her crotch. This has been a source of forced outings, public humiliation and in some cases outright sexual harassment by flight security staff ever since these machines where introduced at airports, i find the idea that somebody could be forced to endure that before every subway ride absolutely nightmarish.
Yeah I was gonna make the trashfuture joke about it being a t-slur detector but honestly its not even funny, this is horrible
btw a common way to confirm the victim's claim that the alarm was set off by girldick and not by a firearm is to do a patdown in the crotch area, with the gender of the person doing the patdown depending on the airport's levels of transphobia.
Aren’t these the ones that also instantly destroy insulin pumps?
i don't even have words for this one. this is completely deranged even by US standards. they're going to make you go through the TSA experience every single day. it won't do anything to stop crime or terrorism or anything that it says on its face. they're going to do this, it's going to stay, and the only people who are for it are people who don't use the subway
god damn america
Every day I get blasted by x-rays.
Have very little money.
Twice a day at least… Fucking miserable timeline.
I love how the NYC subway is quite literally falling apart, by far the most decrepit unsafe looking metro system ive ever been on, and this is where they decide to spend money
The NYC subway is comically loud and bad and dirty, I cringe to think what visitors from places like Tokyo or Hong Kong think when they see it in person for the first time
Not to say there isn't tons of work to be done but "dingy looking" and ancient =/= unsafe and falling apart. Shit's still safer than driving a car, for example, and it's certainly falling apart less than the T in boston
Very true just giving my worthless outsider’s perspective I guess. Almost anything anyone does is safer than driving a car, isn’t it ?
China: high speed rail and efficiency
America: You have to be scanned and there will be a cop with a drug dog
Ok, but have you considered the following: China bad
to be fair the shanghai metro also has security(which imo kinda unnecessary but fair ig). but even then they have an actually nice metro
This has got to be a set up for some kind of rent seeking behavior right? They'll definitely create some kind of fast pass that costs $100 dollars a month that you'll need to pass a background check, have a social security number, and a permanent address to obtain.
Uh... wtf
“This is our Sputnik moment,” Adams said at a news conference at Fulton Transit Center in Lower Manhattan. “Like when Kennedy said we’re going to put a man on the moon. ... Let’s bring on the scanners.”
https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-to-test-scanners-with-ai-tech-to-crack-down-on-guns-in-nyc-subway
I can't think of a more fitting quote to sum up the 21st century
are they trying to privatise & dismantle the subway? decrease ridership, pump costs, making it this theatrical political problem?
then it'll be proposed that a private interest can rejuvenate and solve all these manufactured problems
Bit idea: Get a bunch of people who have gun shaped objects strapped to them to continuously walk through these to bog the entire system down so the rest of the complacent New Yorkers rebel against it too.
Why yes officer, I always have 7 conspicuous dildos under my clothing. Would you like one?
Your dildos don't have trigger-operated vibrators? How do you live?
What the fuck has happened in New York to justify the need for airport level security in subways?
They hired a cop to be mayor.
This is probably all about shutting down the next blm or occupy or whatever by creating check points at transit hubs.
In Chicago during the BLM protests they shut down the trains and then raised all the bridges so you couldn't get out then issued a curfew. They literally made a giant kettle
That’s when you start burning shit down.
I was in a kettle once and the crowd was pushed against a citibank. well those bank windows got smashed and people streamed into the bank and trashed it and escaped through it. Lmao. Hundreds still got arrested, but many escaped.
It doesn’t bear out statistically that the subway is dangerous this is literally because of crime stories that go viral that create this perception. If you use the argument I just made people will literally accuse you of gaslighting them. Oh oh and another thing the New Yorkers who scream the loudest about this shit are the ones that DONT ride the subway; they’re fucking cowards. I’ve spent thousands of hours on the subway while there have been uncomfortable moments I have never been attacked or thought I was going to be attacked. It’s fucking safe as fuck; I’ve been to plenty of places in America where I felt unsafe and I’m telling you the nyc subway is fucking safe as fuckkkk. People are racist cowards.
Edit: I don’t want to sound too dismissive though as I’m a tall dude and at the end of the day; In the same way it can be sketchy to walk in certain parts of town at 2am as a woman the same is for the subway; sexual harassment happens and just like nearly every woman has a story of being sexually harassed/assaulted above ground; nearly every woman I talk to that rides the subway has a story of something happening down there. Obviously the fascist security theater in the OP won’t have any impact on that whatsoever but yeah safety is relative and I understand engrained misogyny can create very different perceptions of these environments for woman, trans, GNC ect
Wasn't there like a stabbing by a serial attacker and the cops hid until the guy who was being stabbed subdued him by himself?
How the fuck is this even a little bit feasible at any station during rush hour
Every day, capitalism finds new and horrible ways to ruin public services.
Wouldn't surpise me if this was exactly for that purpose
"Unfortunately with low ridership we will have to scale back funding to public transportation"
Another example of liberals becoming more authoritarian.
Becoming? They already were. They've just made strides in making it more socially acceptable
mfs saw the TSA and were like: Brilliant!
Wow, the Stop-and-frisk-plausible-deniability beam! We really are living in the future 
Sorry that rent’s 80% of your income, but we gotta spend countless dozens of millions of dollars to instate martial law to stop the post-COVID surge of crime to its rates during the violent era of uhhhhh
checks chart
the early 2010s
I would always roll my eyes at the plane-vs-HSR comparisons when they would include TSA time in the overall plane time only. Of course they're going to have tedious and invasive security theater before you can get on an american high-speed train. MTA's proving that they don't need new technologies or a significant attack as an impetus; they're making the existing train worse because fuck you for not driving.
Ima keep it real with you NYC, I don't think this is going to help improve MTA ridership. 
sounds like a great time for vandalism
Foucault machine goes brrr
But there's no money for housing.
Are they worried someone's gonna hijack the subway and drive it into the world trade center?
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