Absolutely, then there’s the whole classism involved. Now they’re implying that workers are pedos. Good sheep, attack the workers instead of the people actually making the policy.

Funny, I’ve never had any TSA worker treat me in a thuggish manner. Way to make obnoxious generalizations an entire bunch of workers though.

“some oldster”

Do they have to be faceless? How about actual TSA bosses? Your political representatives that are supposed to be setting policy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IONyLZn0pLI

No such image would convey the exact same message to everyone, and to most viewers, it wouldn’t convey that one. As I’ve been saying, I think most would interpret it as a message about the new TSA policies, instead of about the person/people wearing the uniform.

this is definitely turning into a successful right-wing attack of government workers. see the old conservative attacks: they are under-educated and over-paid; over-empowered and carrying too many benefits.

Yeah, that’d be REAL effective on an agitprop t-shirt. Nothing rallies the masses better than getting them to scratch their heads in confusion with a muddled message.

if the american left could string a coherent message together, they could use this as a sterling example of what happens when conservatives create welfare programs: a service industry committed to the service of harassing americans while generating no capital or infrastructure. bloody wonderful.

but no, they cling pathetically to the crumbs of Bush-era counterproductive social programs. Apparently the left’s position is that every worker is just special enough to have a non-unionizable minimum wage job harassing other people, but no more special.

it’s not really a surprise that we’re losing. as flaky as he sometimes is, I think Zizek’s overall point in this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GD69Cc20rw) is spot on.

Blue-shirted thugs REPRESENT the policy and the government policy folks composing and constructing policy.

(So, is that synedoche, or metonymy?)