The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced that starting in May 2025, following the publication of the final rule regarding the use of REAL ID enforcement across airports in the United States, travelers will have to have identification that meets security requirements.
It’s only been delayed 28 times, surely this will be the deadline they stick to.
This is racist as fuck, incidentally.
The folks who have a hard time getting Real ID from their state are the usual people that our overlords like to oppress, as an example to the rest of us to keep us in line.
What?
ID for flying is racist?
How?
Because it isn’t about having an ID, it’s about having that specific, fairly onerous to get, ID. Im white. and its going to be a nightmare for me to get one because my birth certificate is basically a paper saying that I don’t have one. I used to be able to fly with my drivers license, which takes about an hour to get a replacement of (and no guff about documentation, any old ID and social is enough).
Hasn’t like every state over the last 10 years started integrating Real ID into their drivers licenses? Unless you are traveling with an expired, or very close to expired, license; you should already have Real ID.
Yeah… Looks like you forget that there are about 10 states that might as well exist in the 1800s technologically. I live in one of them. We wont see REAL ID implemented on a state level for a couple of decades if digital signatures are anything to go by.
Do you not have a passport?
How much do you think a passport costs?
Most Americans don’t
So getting an ID is hard
How is that racist
So getting an ID is hard How is that racist
Never been at the license desk at the same time as one white and one non-white person? The difference is very noticeable.
In the case I recall most clearly, the tears and obvious fear of lost livelihood were stark.
The effect is racist, but the root intent is class warfare. The goal of many state level decision makers is ensuring poor people stay scared and too busy to unionize against the capital owners who finance the decision makers’ campaigns.
Must be a US problen since I’m black and I have 0 issues getting ID or passport
This is a thread discussing a rule concerning the US.
If you live in another country, your experience regarding getting an ID is entirely irrelevant to this thread.Yes. It is a US problem. US state agencies have been racist (as a way to hide being in open class warfare against the poor) from their inception. The country was built on invasion and slavery, and grew more progressive about human rights over time.
The US has been in a “pretend we fixed it all so we don’t have to fix anything further” phase for decades now.
The current (class warfare strategy) is passing harsh laws that are difficult (occasionally impossible) to comply with, and then selectively enforcing them using skin color and wealth.
Of course, all Europeans/everyone else just have passports.
America just haven’t figured out that system yet.
As someone whose name and id no longer match my birth certificate this is going to be a pain.
Go all out and get your eye colour changed with laser surgery.
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FYI, community links start with a bang!
Thanks. Changed.
I do wish various folks creating protocols would just use URIs and at least try for some consistency across the wider internet. Matrix uses @user:server for people, #room:server for rooms (probably patterned after IRC, which uses #room but, not being federated, has no server part); Lemmy uses !community@server for rooms unless you’re following from Mastodon in which case you drop the “!”; and apparently no prefix for user accounts (like email addresses). Just, like, pick a lane. I’m sure it’s no issue for people who spend all of their time in one place, but for filthy casuals it can be a challenge to remember what format is used where.
Things aren’t confusing enough; let’s just pick a random format for every new protocol, rather than adopting an addressing format from a highly adjacent protocol.
