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Tangurena t1_jc6wan4 wrote

I lived in Ireland during "The Troubles". This sort of thing was common. Another way of dealing with bomb threats was drive the plane away from the terminal, down a taxiway and then make everyone get off the plane, take all the luggage out of the plane and then make everyone identify their suitcases. If there was a suitcase left over, everyone and every suitcase got off the plane again. If the suitcase was still there the second time, the Army took the suitcase and blew it up.

In Belfast, you left your shopping bags outside of stores (because the IRA would hide bombs in shopping bags and leave them to explode inside stores). No one would steal your bags because they might be bombs.

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KarateKid72 t1_jc6vtmo wrote

I’m sorry you are so out of touch here. The GOP is a huge proponent of Russia. You must have missed all the praise heaped on Russia by the GOP for the last 6 years but it’s easy enough to look up if you aren’t lazy. You can start by looking up the Trump administrations negotiations of regulations, the praise of Putin by Trump, McConnell, Graham (to name a few) and then move on to the actual data.

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Honalana t1_jc6tazg wrote

An entity I worked for got an award because an audit was able to clearly track all the money they spent. Not that the money was well spent. Basically just that the money was accounted for. And they would tout this award as if it showed they were fiscally responsible but it didn’t. Irritates the shit out of me.

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