TSA propaganda AMA up. Top comments are likely shills.

41  2014-01-13 by [deleted]

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1v2ucz/iama_former_supervisor_for_tsa_ama/

Top comment (as of this posting): http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1v2ucz/iama_former_supervisor_for_tsa_ama/ceo6bmy

^ User for 3 years, has not posted anything for a month up until this AMA came up, almost immediately after it did.

Second highest post: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1v2ucz/iama_former_supervisor_for_tsa_ama/ceo68jz

^ User for 2 months, has never posted anything until today where a lot of activity took place leading up to the AMA.

20 comments

Looks like you're paying more attention to who's asking, rather than what's being said.

If you bothered to read what's being said you'd see that the OP is not speaking highly of the TSA and the questions asked are not favourable to the TSA.

"any reasonably intelligent terrorist who tries hard enough can eventually get something bad onto a plane"

"Keep in mind that the average TSO is extremely lazy and has other things to do."

"One guy forgot that he had left his pistol in his bag and ended up going to jail for 6 months or so."

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Why do you keep asking me to go onto other forums?

Rule 5. No stalking.

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You've got a suspiciously high amount of karma for a new account.


The user was /u/internetpropagandist, strange they would delete their own comments.

He posts frequently to conspiratard

He was probably bored and singled you out for a trollin'. I thought it was obvious.

What is shocking to me is that you are making yet another post trying to deflect the point of an /r/conspiracy post. Like every other post you have ever made.

Looks like you're paying more attention to who's asking, rather than what's being said.

The first guy's question hardly seems like some TSA public relations question - his inactivity is hardly proof of anything - it's pretty clear from his comment history that he doesn't say much.

The user profile of the second guy is hardly that of some TSA stooge - for a start he's a New Zealander, and in his 2 months he's managed to accrue 4,000+ link karma and 26,000+ comment karma. If he's a sockpuppet he's a very busy one.

This all seems pretty paranoid.

If it was a PR exercise for the TSA it wasn't a very successful one - many of the highly visible comments are negative about the TSA, and even OP's answers to many things are hardly shining examples of positive TSA spin.

Very nicely put, this is how we should conduct ourselves the OP is wrong on this one. He probably saw the thread and immediately made up his mind to find shill posts, with this mindset he ended up grasping at straws and unconsciously trying his best to find that which he already concluded must be there when it wasn't.

Why would this AMA happen at 11pm Eastern Standard? You would figure someone in charge would want this type of explosive (haha) AMA to happen at a peak hour.

So as it has upvotes by Monday morning and is top

I really hope he answers just one of mine. After that tsa vid posted in here the other day I had a feeling this kinda shit would happen.

Ps I fucking hate tsa.

The lack of recent activity of those two posters rings alarm bells

It doesn't really. One has a history of infrequent posts anyway. And regardless it's just been the Christmas break. Maybe the other guy has been on holiday?

The posts are hardly shill-y

80-90% of this sub is shills, the internet died here a long time ago. but something will come and let us shout the truth for a small while again...

I hate this mindset. There are definitely people out there shilling but 99% of the time that word is thrown around when someone disagrees with the another.

I wanna be a shill! I got some great ideas for "storylines" to the feed the public.

Don't just say you have the ideas. Tell us about them.

All of the efforts by the NSA, FBI, TSA and other entities over the past decade has been to locate a single individual. While some might believe they are looking for the Anti-Christ, I believe they are instead looking for the one man who can stop the End of Days and bring peace to all humanity.

Very nicely put, this is how we should conduct ourselves the OP is wrong on this one. He probably saw the thread and immediately made up his mind to find shill posts, with this mindset he ended up grasping at straws and unconsciously trying his best to find that which he already concluded must be there when it wasn't.